Two Novels by Claude & Rhoda Nunes
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Overview: Claude Nunes (1924-2009), South African statistician and author, most of whose work was in collaboration with his wife Rhoda Nunes (1938-1988). They published their first sf story, "The Problem", in Science Fantasy #52, April 1962, and were active for the next two decades. Inherit the Earth (March 1963 Science Fiction Adventures as by Claude and Rhoda Nunes; exp 1966 dos) was published as by Nunes alone, as his wife participated less than usual in the rewrite; in it the telepathic Androids who inhabit a Ruined Earth – after a nuclear Holocaust has driven humanity to the stars – hope one day to teach their makers how to live in peace. Recoil (1971) was published as by both; in a rather archaic style it tells of Telepathic Aliens and their attempts to influence humans, specifically a group of children. The Sky Trapeze (1980), by Nunes alone, again concentrated on the powers of the mind, this time in an alien venue.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Inherit the Earth (1966)
The human race was rushing towards the brink of destruction, as huge global forces massed to strike at each other with all the awesome power of modern war weapons. war threats screamed from headlines, radio and television … and in a small, seemingly unimportant city in Africa, a group of men worked on a discovery and a plan that was to affect Earth’s entire future.
They had developed a new type of creature – androids who were only the size of dolls, and apparently limited in intelligence. Yet they seemed to have a strange effect on the personalities of humans.
So far there were only a few score of the androids – but in time they were fated to inherit the Earth.
Recoil (1971) (ed. Jim3692)
‘They’re going to take George away?" asked his wife, knowing the answer.
Wills nodded.
"My God. First the crippled, then the intellectually gifted . . ." Her voice trailed away.
"He’s none of those!" Wills protested violently. ‘They say he’s different in a wild way, but he’s not. He’s just an average kid, out playing and dawdling about—"
"Why is this happening?" she screamed. "What is making us persecute each other?"
George stood by the riverbank, his dog at his heels. Growling softly, the shaggy animal pointed rigidly at a crack in the pavement. The boy kneeled beside it, sensing the wrongness. For an instant a picture flashed of tentacles attenuating through all the corridors under the city. Then the hazy mist gathered in strength, writhing and twisting toward him. In the swirling whirlwind, George could see the outline of long, curving claws…
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