Giants From Eternity , um romance de 1959 de Manly Wade Wellman ; publicado originalmente (talvez em uma versão mais curta) em Startling Stories , julho de 1939 , disponível no Arquivo da Internet .
O seguinte excerto de uma revisão por Frederik Pohl em Se , setembro de 1959 (também disponível no Arquivo da Internet ) é bastante severo (desculpe por isso), mas é um bom resumo do enredo:
Avalon has elected to bring back to life Manly Wade Wellman’s twenty-year-old magazine novel, Giants from Eternity. This story was preposterous in 1939; age has not helped it. It begins with a mysterious meteorite (or something) that falls on a farm and begins to eat everything in sight, turning what it eats scarlet and threatening to engorge the world. A couple of poisonously juvenile scientists investigate it. They are baffled and helpless, but they manage to extract a sort of resurrection-juice from it, which they use to bring back the greatest minds of all time to help them out. These are the "Giants from Eternity" and they include Thomas Edison, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin and Madame Curie. One of the juveniles is entrapped by the red stuff and thus works to help it spread; the revived Giants take a few days to master everything that has happened in science since their deaths, then quickly invent everything necessary to wipe out the red menace and bring about a happy ending.