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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aMerwin, Sam, Jr.,
_d1910-1996
245 1 4 _aThe white rain came
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aLynn Fenlay
490 1 _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.).
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-27
508 _aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aThe white rain came by Jr. Sam Merwin. It is a science fiction novelette written in the mid-20th century. Set on a colonized Mars, the story explores telepathy, frontier society, and a mysterious cosmic intelligence, centering on how settlers might harness an alien force to solve the planet’s desperate water crisis. Lynne Fenlay, a gifted telepath from Earth, chafes at Mars’s rough customs while working at a telepathic research depot. After a colleague is killed and another left comatose during contact with an unknown mind, Lynne and her reckless partner Rolf Marcein trace the source to Callisto, where an Earth mission has been devastated by a sentient, mineral-like entity provoked by a buried power generator. Together they master telekinetic control long enough to shut the device down, saving survivors but at great cost. Back on Mars, Lynne detects a similar presence near Woomera Station and deduces these interlinked “super-brains” exist on many worlds, react to irritation with thunderous energy, and, given an atmosphere, can trigger storm phenomena. She designs a shielded telepathic relay to “nudge” the entity into producing localized weather, and the team successfully brings snowfall to the parched plain—proof that Mars can be watered. Celebrations and commendations follow, tempered by losses, lingering dangers, and a wry final mishap that postpones the couple’s long-delayed honeymoon. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aMars (Planet) -- Fiction
653 _aTelepathy -- Fiction
653 _aSpouses -- Fiction
653 _aCallisto (Satellite) -- Fiction
700 1 _aHunter, Mel,
_d1927-2004
830 0 _aLynn Fenlay
830 0 _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.).
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/FantasticUniverseV03n04195505ATLPM/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78055
999 _c118775
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