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wolfbane

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Wolfbane is a science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth , published in 1959. It was serialized in Galaxy in 1957, with illustrations by Wally Wood . In his review column for F&SF , Damon Knight selected the novel as one of the 10 best genre ...

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n. ''See'' '''wolfsbane'''

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n. poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock [syn: wolfsbane , wolf's bane , Aconitum lycoctonum ]

Usage examples of wolfbane.

He went back to coffee and cigarettes, gave up the medication, went back to writing, finished the revisions on Wolfbane, wrote two or three of his best novelettes, signed on as an editor for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction -his first experiment with editing, rather than writing, science fiction, and one which he enjoyed enormously.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman SYNOPSIS When young Jim Endicott celebrates his sixteenth birthday with a quiet dinner at his modest home on the Terran colony planet of Wolfbane, he has no idea his peaceful, ordered life is about to be shattered In fact, he is overjoyed at finally reaching sixteen, because now he can apply to the Solis Space Academy, the training ground for the men and women who will eventually con the great white ships of Earth on their voyages of discovery into the rest of the galaxy.

Jim, on the run, goes to Plebtown, a high-tech underclass ghetto on Wolfbane, where he meets Cat, a girl about his own age.

As Tabitha came over to join them, Jim looked up at the Wolfbane night.

He closed his eyes as he visualized that legendary military space school on distant Terra, thirty light-years from his small room in a house in Prima City, the capital of Wolfbane, the first interstellar human colony.

An hour later, showered and freshly combed, feeling cheerfully drained and, to his relief, much better than he had the night before, Jim stepped out of the main doors of the rec center and squinted at the bloated orb of Krager One, the somewhat elderly and mildly fading star around which Wolfbane orbited.

But this passed as well, as the rose glow dawn slowly deepened into the red heat of a Wolfbane morning, and a cockroach, its ancestors inadvertently from distant Earth, ran crazily across the wall.

My God, you could rent a full day on fl combined Wolfbane mega processor for that kind of money.

First, there have been instances of it here, in the Wolfbane Pleb communities.

He had thought the cargo docks on Wolfbane were huge: now he realized you could take their entire vastness and lose them in one small corner of these docks.

All over the Terran System, and even as far away as Wolfbane, Plebs exploded into paroxysms of mindless violence.

Navy is reporting publicly they have driven the unknown invaders from the Wolfbane System.

The commander of our lander on Wolfbane told me that nuke missed you by the thinnest of hairs.

And no wonder Korkal had sniffed at the quaintness the Wolfbane grav-tube station.

And destroy Jim remembered the high and falling scream as and Chip had taken over the systems of the Terran plunged it into the soil of Wolfbane like a great exploding It must.