Three men, each driven by secret reasons, volunteered to take the strangest trip since the beginning of time: GORDON—filled with a need for power, enough power to wipe out the memory of an earlier terrible shame. LOCKWOOD—to whom life was worth very little without Susan—maybe it was worth nothing at all. STANTON—a man haunted by the knowledge that a special and mysterious fate awaited him. Behind them were their pasts. Ahead of them—infinity. In this different and suspense-filled novel, the author of Donovan’s Brain tells the story of a strange quest whose outcome might mean the difference between survival and extinction for mankind.
THE MOUNTAINS WERE SILENT... He was handsome, shrewd, lustful—a scoundrel who would do anything for money. She was beautiful, innocent, lonely—and she possessed a fortune... Alina would not be the first woman Royal Ludovici had pretended to love—but she might be the first with whom his practiced deceit would fail...For, unscrupulous as he was, Royal now found himself confronted by forces greater than his own insatiable greed. And they were teaching Royal, for the first time, that in the end a man can betray only himself...
The SF classic novel of the terror that lurked in DONOVAN’S BRAIN. DEAD...Doomed by disease, then mangled in a plane crash, there was no doubt that Donovan was dead. YET...floating in a tank of nutrient, linked to complex apparatus, Donovan’s brain still lived... ALIVE...someone walked with Donovan’s gait, wrote his signature, knew his foulest secrets—and carried out his last, weirdest plan! “Donovan’s Brain is terrific!”—THE NEW YORK TIMES
Twenty-five years after Donovan's Brain -- now a classic of science fiction -- came a superb new novel from the pen of Curt Siodmak. Once again the author probed the horizons of scientific endeavour in an extraordinary story which blended science fiction with international intrigue. An once again he featured D. Patrick Cory, the biochemist who figures in Donovan's Brain. Cory, the world's leading authority on RNA (ribonucleic aid) the brain substance in which memory is stored -- is approached by the CIA and asked to conduct a weird and dangerous experiment: to remove the RNA from Hauser, a dying German scientist who has defected from the Russians, and inject it into another man in the hope of releasing the German's secrets. At first, Cory is appalled. But Slaughter, the CIA man, has thought of everything -- even to providing a suitable 'subject' for the bizarre experiment. The experiment succeeds -- but to an extent which neither Cory nor Slaughter could anticipate. For it is not only Hauser's memory that is transferred. With it go his obsessions, his dreams, his emotions, his character...gradually, insidiously. And there begins the bitter struggle as Hauser's memory tries to posses its new mind -- the mind of a man who is acutely aware of what is happening to him. The dead German's monomaniacal quest for vengeance -- that soon involves security elements from both East and West in a thrilling international chase -- and the final chilling confrontation between the man possessed by Hauser and the object of Hauser's search combine to make an enthralling, suspenseful and utterly credible science fiction novel which is a fitting successor to Donovan's Brain.
Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time is back with an all-new story by the creator of Doc Savage, Lester Dent. Also featuring classic hard-boiled detective stories by Horace McCoy, Wyatt Blassingame, Day Keene, Herbert Koehl, Kent Richards, Stephen McBarron, Dwight V. Babcock, Hugh B. Cave, and Edgar Franklin, all from the golden age of pulp fiction. With vintage brush illustrations by Arthur Rodman Bowker, as well as a previously-unpublished interview with the author of Donovan’s Brain, Curt Siodmak.
The biochemist thought a brain-dead but physically flawless young man was a perfect subject. But soon Cory learns that Gabriel's body had a will of its own, and it needed his mind to live again. . .
An ambitious doctor experiments on, and becomes controlled by, the brain of a dead millionaire in "Donovan's Brain," and in "Hauser's Memory," a doctor unwittingly absorbs the memory of a dying scientist into his own brain. Reprint.
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