![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Only Antares, inhabited by a race of viscous Brains, survives -– and this last remnant of universal sentience entrusts its fate to the unique, laboratory-created Red Brain, in a compelling fable that leaves behind the concerns of the human aquarium to revel in the cosmos and the ultimate terror waiting there. Wandrei graduated in 1928, with a BA in English.Īt the age of 16, Wandrei completed his short story " The Red Brain", in which a mysterious Cosmic Dust sweeps through the universe, obliterating the stars. At that time he was enormously influenced by a reading of Arthur Machen's novel The Hill of Dreams. While there, he was a student editor and regular columnist on the student newspaper The Minnesota Daily, and was also associated with the Minnesota Quarterly Magazine, as well as contributing pieces (often unsigned or pseudonymous) to the campus humour magazine Ski-U-Mah, which was edited by classmate Carl Jacobi. In 19 he also worked evenings at the Hill Reference Library. In 1923 he began work part-time as a "page-boy" in the circulation room of the Saint Paul Public Library, filling reader's requests for books from the storage stacks this expanded his access to, and reading of, a wide variety of literature. Paul, Minnesota, from 1921–24, during which he published short compositions in the school newspaper and avidly read the magazine Science and Invention. ![]()
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