Scanners live in vain: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Scanners live in vain is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony (1913–1966).
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"Scanners live in vain" by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger is a science fiction short story written in 1945. In a future where space travel causes unbearable pain and death, only Scanners—volunteers who have severed their sensory nerves—can crew starships. When a scientist discovers a way to make Scanners obsolete, their guild faces extinction and votes for murder. Scanner Martel must choose between loyalty to his brotherhood and preventing an assassination that could restore his lost humanity.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Scanners live in vain
- Author credits: Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony (1913–1966)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Conspiracies -- Fiction
- Inventors -- Fiction
- Science fiction
- Space travelers -- Fiction
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- Category: Novels
- Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
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