Vitons can deal with the odd reporter who learns about them. Graham and everyone involved in the investigation are walking dead, alive only for so long as it takes the Vitons to notice them.ĭesperate to buy enough time to discover some means of killing our invisible masters, Graham and his colleagues exploit the one Viton weakness of which they are aware: Vitons are limited in number and cannot be everywhere.
In the case of Silver City, a whole city suffers a metropolis-leveling industrial accident. Thus, people who know too much or who make the mistake of thinking the wrong thoughts in front of a Viton suffer heart attacks or fatal madness. It would not do for humans to understand that they are domesticated animals. Unfortunately for Bjornsen, Vitons can read minds 1.
Irrational behavior, war, and prejudice persist because Vitons intervene to make it so, the better to feed off us. Human history has been a long record of Vitons shaping human behavior to suit their needs. These “Vitons,” as Bjornsen dubbed them, live near concentrations of humans for much the same reason humans can be found near cows and sheep. To his surprise he discovered heretofore invisible metre-wide balls of energy lurking amongst humans. Professor Bjornsen developed a method to extend the range of human sight. His efforts to share a startling discovery have doomed his colleagues. The common link turns out to be having communicated with the late Professor Bjornson.
The target is not merely the United States of America. The culprit isn’t the Soviets, the Asian Combine, or even some sort of sinister world-spanning conspiracy like Hydra, Thrush, Spectre, or the Phone Company, but something far more ominous. Graham is on the right track but he does not grasp the scale of the crisis. Graham is convinced someone is murdering the USA’s brain trust. Some died of what seems to be natural causes, others by suicide. Department of Special Finance, is alarmed at a recent wave of deaths amongst America’s top geniuses. Eric Frank Russell’s 1939 Sinister Barrier is a standalone Fortean novel.Ģ015! The distant future! Bill Graham, a liaison officer handling relations between scientists and the U.S.
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