Sinister Barrier
Issued in two states: 500 copies with a numbered leaf signed by the author inserted and a 3,500-copy trade edition. Both editions had the same dustjacket and price. "This first edition is limited to 4,000 copies of which 500 are numbered and autographed."
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- Yes but with a reverse perspective, in "Three body problem" the villains are the aliens, and here it's us. Or it's a question of point of view, after all, Trisolaris sees us as "bugs" in the novel.
I grant this "zoo hypothesis" is old, with many variations like those of Charles Ford or 1939' "Sinister Barrier" of Eric Frank Russel:
This book frightens me every time I re-read it!
- I came here to post the same thing!
The fuel economy on this was said to be excellent (because it's a tandem seating design), with the downside that the passenger was always relegated to the back seat...
Gyrocars also featured in the awesome science fiction novel Sinister Barrier, by Eric Frank Russell (published in 1943!).
- Echoes of "Sinister Barrier" by Eric Frank Russell, a famous 1940s SF novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier).
If scientists begin dying mysteriously, these researchers might be onto something! ;-)
- > "These craft are of natural origin. Some very strange analogue of St Elmo's Fire"
"we humans are property of some more highly evolved beings that live in a realm that we cannot see. Those invisible beings are immaterial: they are made of energy and Russell compares them to ball lightning."
- An old (1943) and frightening one by Eric Frank Russell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier
Russell employed the idea that we humans are property of some more highly evolved beings that live in a realm that we cannot see.
