Electron Eat Electron

A mid-century science fiction novel set in a future where two great powers, the Eastern and Western hemispheres, teeter on the brink of total war. When conventional warfare proves devastating beyond measure, both sides turn to a terrifying new weapon: human pilots bonded with experimental electronic capabilities, their very nervous systems rewired to interface with machines of unprecedented destructive power. The story follows a President caught in the crossfire of this new warfare, watching as mutant warriors with electronic gifts become humanity's ultimate weapon, and perhaps its final mistake. Loomis asks what remains of the human spirit when we learn to eat our own electrons, when soldiers become half-machine and war becomes a question of who can mutate fastest. A Cold War nightmare rendered in atomic-age prose, this is science fiction grappling with the question that haunted its era: how far will civilization travel down the path of self-destruction before we recognize the monster in the mirror?