"Brake" is a science fiction short story by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in 1957 in Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections Beyond the Beyond (1969) and The Psychotechnic League (1981). As a component of the Psychotechnic League future history / alternate history, "Brake" takes place in 2270, as the civilization built up in the aftermath of the 1958 Third World War is being torn between mutually antagonistic factions, on the verge of collapsing into "the day of genocide and the night of ignorance and tyranny".
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- Psychotechnic League
- contained in Beyond the Beyondcollection
- contained in Cold Victorycollection
- contained in The Complete Psychotechnic League: Volume 2collection
- contained in The Queen of Air and Darknesscollection