Nerves Author:Lester Del Rey This is no story of space ships and Martians. This is a novel about the atomic world - our world. It tells of a peacetime atomic plant- — "In 1942, three years before the general public had ever heard of nuclear fission, Lester del Rey wrote a brilliantly detailed novella of disaster in an atomics plant, which now appears, skillfully expanded t... more »o booklength, as NERVES. A wholly admirable blend of prophetic thinking (in medicine as well as atomics), warm human values and powerful narrative suspense, this is strongly recommended to reads as (having) the best elements of genuine science fiction." New York Herald Tribune« less