The white rain cameJr. Sam MerwinOmniClassics · Literature
The white rain came
Jr. Sam MerwinA telepath's discomfort with Martian settlement gives way to a crisis demanding her unusual abilities.
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About the book
Lynne Fenlay watches the hurried marriage ceremonies of Mars with homesickness and frustration, feeling how poorly her upbringing on Earth fits the colony's rough practical arrangements. Her attachment to Rolf Marcein adds another source of conflict between personal desire and the life she is expected to accept. Then a disastrous event at a telepathic research depot interrupts those questions: contact with an unknown mind has left the team in desperate condition. Lynne's sensitivity makes her urgently necessary to an investigation whose implications extend beyond the laboratory. This sequel to Nightmare Tower combines the domestic pressures of a speculative frontier with contact across radically different kinds of intelligence. It appeared under Jacques Jean Ferrat, Sam Merwin Jr.'s pseudonym, in Fantastic Universe in May 1955.
- Frontier society
- Telepathic contact
- Love and responsibility
Why read it
The story gives its speculative crisis a protagonist already questioning the personal costs of planetary settlement.
English story published as Jacques Jean Ferrat in Fantastic Universe, May 1955