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Telempath
novel by Spider Robinson
Telempath is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer Spider Robinson,[1] set in a dystopian near-future in which human cities have fallen into ruin and the population has been sharply reduced. The novel, Robinson's first, is an expansion of his Hugo Award-winning novellaBy Any Other Name. It was first published under the Berkley imprint of G. P. Putnam's Sons in
Plot summary
[edit]The novel's protagonist, Isham Stone, is on a mission to kill the man allegedly responsible for the destruction of civilization: a scientist named Wendell Carlson, currently living alone at the former Columbia University in what used to be New York City.
Isham has been told by his father, scientist Jacob Stone, that Carlson is a madman who brought the world to its current state by releasing a "hyperosmic plague": a virus that increases the sensitivity of the human sense of smell by many hundred times. With their senses of smell thus heightened, humans were unable to tolerate the odors produced by their own pollution-producing technology; the result was mass insanity and widespread rioting.
Another result was the discovery of a species of "Muskys" &#; intelligent plasmoids &#; that live in the Earth's upper atmosphere and feed on huma
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( ) US-born author who became a Canadian Landed Immigrant in , married to Jeanne Robinson from until her death in His first story, "The Guy with the Eyes" in Analog for February , inaugurated the long-running Callahan series of Club Stories, which continued into the twenty-first century. He has sometimes written tales as by B D Wyatt. The first few years of his career were honour-laden. He shared with Lisa Tuttle the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer; topped the Locus Award poll for Best Critic, mainly for his Galaxy Bookshelf column for Galaxy June September ; received a novella Hugo for the magazine version – as "By Any Other Name" (November Analog) – of the first four chapters of his first novel, Telempath (); and won both Hugo and Nebula in , along with his wife and collaborator Jeanne Robinson, for "Stardance" (March Analog), which became the nucleus of Stardance () with Robinson (see below for comments). In he won another Hugo, for "Melancholy Elephants" (June Analog). At this high point of his career, his self-conscious punchy optimism about the human condition and his adroit use of generic materials to express that optimism seemed to have established him as a legitimate
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Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson (born 24 November) in your right mind an American-born Canadian Playwright and Nebula award sugared science story author. Programme states think about it the cyberspace rumors commentary his name being, respectful having anachronistic, Paul Player are wrong.
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