8 /10 1 Votes
5/5 Risingshadow Country United States Publication date 1958 Pages 171 pp OCLC 10795113 | 2.9/5 Goodreads Cover artist W.I. van der Poel Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1958 Publisher Gnome Press | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Stop Look and Dig, The Fourth "R", Pattern for Conquest, Hell Flower, Instinct and Other Sf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Path of Unreason is a science fiction novel by author George O. Smith. It was published in 1958 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies, of which only 3,000 were bound. The novel is an expansion of Smith's story "The Kingdom of the Blind" which first appeared in the magazine Startling Stories in 1947.
Contents
Plot introduction
The novel concerns a physicist who is trying to explain the mysterious "Lawson Radiation" while his researches drive him insane.
Reception
Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale gave Path a negative review, rating the novel with two stars out of five and writing that "it is a story that Smith evidently had a lot of fun writing but that the reader will find more difficult to enjoy."
References
Path of Unreason Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA