Wolfbane
An advanced civilisation has removed Earth from the Solar System and turned the surviving humans into components.
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What if The Matrix had been imagined in 1957?
Alien Pyramids have stolen Earth and reduced humanity to a shrinking, calorie-controlled population. Citizens pursue passive meditation while outsiders called Wolves resist the rules—and the true machinery of control remains hidden.
Wolfbane combines remarkable world-building with questions about conformity, collective intelligence and human beings absorbed into systems larger than themselves. Its images of bodies connected to machines remain startlingly modern.
Inside the book
- The wandering Earth and its artificial moon-sun
- Citizens, Wolves and the ritual of translation
- Machine-integrated hive minds
- The original 1957 version of the story
For readers who enjoy
- The Matrix, transhumanism and simulation stories
- Dystopian world-building
- Pohl and Kornbluth’s sharpest collaborations
Explore beyond the book
Read Andrew’s analysis of Wolfbane or explore Forgotten Futures.
Discover the world behind the curtain
Read or listen to one of the strangest and most ambitious science-fiction novels of the 1950s.
Questions readers ask
When was Wolfbane first published?
The story was serialised in Galaxy magazine in 1957.
Is this the original version?
This edition reproduces the original form of the story.
Is an audiobook available?
Yes. A complete Audible edition is available.