Onslaught from Rigel

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 26, 2024

In Category - Science Fiction

Authors: Fletcher Pratt In Year : 1932

Book Language: English

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Preface
Chapter 1: The Onslaught from Rigel
Chapter 2: A Metal Community
Chapter 3: Rebellion
Chapter 4: Flight!
Chapter 5: The Menace
Chapter 6: The Terror by Night
Chapter 7: An Exploration
Chapter 8 The Dodos are Bombing
Chapter 9: The Opening of the Conflict
Chapter 10: Hopelessness
Chapter 11: Capture
Chapter 12: The Poisoned Paradise
Chapter 13: The Lassan
Chapter 14: In the Passages
Chapter 15: The Lassan Explains
Chapter 16: A Dash for Freedom
Chapter 17: Marta's Sacrifice
Chapter 18: The End of the Light-Ray
Chapter 19: The Gravity Beam
Chapter 20: The Coming of the Green Globes
Chapter 21: Reinforcements
Chapter 22: The Great Conflict
Chapter 23: Into the Depths
Chapter 24: The Ending of It All

“Mr. Pratt is well known for .… his excellent knowledge of warfare, and what a future war might be like. In this story he combines that knowledge with a vivid and fertile scientific imagination to construct an interplanetary story …. many scientists believe that life may originally have come to earth in the form of spores, from other solar systems and other universes. We therefore might really have had our home dim ages ago, on worlds distantly removed from our earth.

The ability to travel the interstellar spaces, however, might also be possessed by other creatures—creatures driven by fear, necessity and by the will to conquer. And if they come, in mighty waves, with scientific powers far beyond us, to dominate the earth, a terrible time will face the puny human race.

And in this story they do come, and provoke some of the strangest and most exciting adventures that have yet been recorded. (Summary excerpted from the Preface.)