Scientist Oliver Norfleet and his college buddy Spencer DuPogue are called by the Board of Science, to investigate a mysteriously expanding red blight that is growing around the site of a meteor crash. With the help of the daughter of a famous scientist, they soon discover that the blight is not only alive, but that it consumes nearly everything in its path. When their own abilities prove inadequate, they are forced to turn to the greatest scientific minds that history has to offer. Can Norfleet and DuPogue and the Giants from Eternity stop the blight before the entire Earth is consumed? Also includes the novella The Timeless Tomorrow.
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It was Oliver Noll Norfleet who first said the strange red earth-blight that appeared to flourish in western Kansas was a new form of independent life. Read the first page
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Wellman's pulp fiction holds up well
Nov 6 2004
By Spassvogel
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Unlike a lot of that late 30s, early 40s pulp sci-fi and fantasy fiction, Wellman's work holds up surprisingly well. Giants concerns a meteor crash that slowly starts to spread a red cancerous blight across the midwest, devouring everything and anyone that gets in its way. When two scientists discover that matter sampled from the core of the meteor has life-restoring properties, they set about using it to revive history's greatest scientists to enlist their help in saving the Earth. These includ Darwin, Edison, Newton, Marie Curie and Louie Pasteur. There are plenty of pulp-story twists and turns and melodrama, but all in all its a good story with a lot of interesting and clever (considering when it was published) scientific innovations.
Paired with Giants From Eternity is the shorter piece The Timeless Tomorrow, a chronicle of Nostradamus and how he deals with the politics of his time and how his life is affected by his gift for foresight, including his most dire predition: Atoma Divisia.
Though Manly Wade Wellman is known mostly for his later works (the stories of John aka Silver John) his considerable catalog of science fiction stands up just as well in my opinion.
Paired with Giants From Eternity is the shorter piece The Timeless Tomorrow, a chronicle of Nostradamus and how he deals with the politics of his time and how his life is affected by his gift for foresight, including his most dire predition: Atoma Divisia.
Though Manly Wade Wellman is known mostly for his later works (the stories of John aka Silver John) his considerable catalog of science fiction stands up just as well in my opinion.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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What a fun read...
Jun 8 2006
By Chimmy
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Format:Hardcover
I picked up GFE from the local library because I was looking to get lost in "yesteryear" when ray guns were the ultimate aspiration of technology. Anyway, it turns out that Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, and Marie Curie are the GIANTS from ETERNITY who are called forth (I won't spoil it and tell you HOW) to help deal with a blob-like "blight" that crash-landed in rural Kansas (those blasted, contaminated meteor rocks). The "blight" is consuming everything in its path, and it is up to these brainiacs from the past to figure out a way to stop it!
Naturally, each of these scientific elders brings their unique field of expertise into play as they try to figure out how to stop the blight. It is a neat concept to "imagine" how these historical figures might approach solving a "modern-day" problem...even if that problem is as far-fetched as a gelationous sea of goo. Each GIANT is indespensible in this battle, and I think any curious mind will have a fun time reading about HOW they deal with this apocalyptic ooze.
It has a b-movie quality to it, but that's what makes it so entertaining...
Naturally, each of these scientific elders brings their unique field of expertise into play as they try to figure out how to stop the blight. It is a neat concept to "imagine" how these historical figures might approach solving a "modern-day" problem...even if that problem is as far-fetched as a gelationous sea of goo. Each GIANT is indespensible in this battle, and I think any curious mind will have a fun time reading about HOW they deal with this apocalyptic ooze.
It has a b-movie quality to it, but that's what makes it so entertaining...
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Love GFE
July 20 2007
By starman
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Format:Hardcover
Got this book in the school library over 30 years ago. Loved it then, couldn't wait to read it again. Good clean easy reading. Lots of fun, a little scary.
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