Gray Cloud, The

di Walter Kubilius (Autore)

Scott Miller, 2026

The atom age has arrived, and the world celebrates each new explosion as proof of human progress. But deep inside a remote laboratory, Dr. Jennings has discovered something that turns every headline into a warning siren. His experimental machine can do far more than record thoughts. It can translate them. What he hears through that machine leaves him exhausted, frightened, and increasingly certain that humanity has misunderstood its place in the universe. When a hard-edged military agent arrives to pressure Jennings into surrendering his research, the scientist finally reveals the truth he has kept hidden. The machine has captured the thoughts of a mind so vast that no human intelligence should be able to comprehend it. What begins as a demonstration of advanced cybernetics becomes a vision of terror involving atomic warfare, living worlds, and a sentence already passed against mankind. The Gray Cloud builds its dread slowly, then delivers one unforgettable cosmic revelation after another as the night sky darkens over Earth. Walter Kubilius published science fiction throughout the 1940s and 1950s in magazines including Amazing Stories, Planet Stories, and Future combined with Science Fiction Stories. His fiction often blended hard scientific ideas with large-scale cosmic speculation, placing ordinary people against forces far beyond human control. The Gray Cloud remains one of his most unsettling stories, combining postwar atomic anxiety with a chilling vision of humanity seen from an entirely different scale of life.

• Autore: Walter Kubilius
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 00:24:43
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Scott Miller
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9780466812386