New Releases by John Brunner

Creohan the astronomer discovers a star on a collision course with Earth and begins a quest to find a way of averting disaster.

What was this thing called a stardropper whose use was the rage all around the world? Ostensibly a simple device made from an amplifier, a magnet, a vacuum, a power source and an earpiece. Add it up and you get nonsense - in the form of strange sounds. But was it "nonsense" that drove people mad, creating an addiction similar to dope? was it "nonsense" that caused people to disappear off the face of the earth without a trace. Stardropper - a menace to an insane world, or a warning from the stars --Preliminary leaf.