Echo in the Skull

Echo in the Skull is a science-fiction novel by British novelist John Brunner, first published in the United States by Ace Books as part of Ace Double #D-385. In 1974 Brunner had an expanded version of the story published as Give Warning to the World.Brunner has assumed the existence of a universe-spanning field that can mimic sentient thought. When a female dies by violence, that field records her last moments of life and makes them available to certain other sentient females in the form of lucid dreams. The information spreads across the field instantly, in a manner reminiscent of quantum entanglement. The dreams comprise the echo in the skull of the title.-Wik