The Onslaught From Rigel
by Fletcher Pratt
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About this eBook
- Author
- Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956
- Title
- The Onslaught from Rigel
- Credits
- Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 41049
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41049
- Release Date
- October 14, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Onslaught from Rigel
- 2.By FLETCHER PRATT — A jagged beam of flame, intenser than the hottest furnace leaped through the air, struck the green globe and reached the earth in a thousand tiny rivulets of light. — THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGEL — By the author of "The Reign of the Ray," "The War of the Giants," etc. — FLETCHER PRATT
- 3.THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGEL
- 4.CHAPTER II — A Metal Community
- 5.CHAPTER III — Rebellion
- 6.CHAPTER IV — Flight!
- 7.CHAPTER V — The Menace
- 8.CHAPTER VI — The Terror by Night — Instead of the darkness he had expected, the deck was flung into dazzling illumination.
- 9.CHAPTER VII — An Exploration
- 10.CHAPTER VIII — The Dodos are Bombing
- 11.CHAPTER IX — The Opening of the Conflict
- 12.CHAPTER X — Hopelessness — One of the things would swing its trunk around and discharge a light-bolt at a house or other object.
- 13.CHAPTER XI — Capture
- 14.CHAPTER XII — The Poisoned Paradise — He was rewarded by a tearing pain in his fingertip. Behind the ground glass a red light now appeared.
- 15.CHAPTER XIII — The Lassan
- 16.CHAPTER XIV — In the Passages — Half a dozen ape-men stood behind the benches of their masters apparently serving at this singular meal.
- 17.CHAPTER XV — The Lassan Explains — The star, like our own sun, was threatened by some enormous catastrophe, a titanic explosion.
- 18.CHAPTER XVI — A Dash for Freedom
- 19.CHAPTER XVII — Marta's Sacrifice
- 20.CHAPTER XVIII — The End of the Light-Ray — This shows that Mr. Pratt's conception of the elephant-men is not so far-fetched. This photo is Ganesha, a Hindu god, patron of art and literature Ganesha symbolizes to the Hindus wisdom and knowledge.
- 21.CHAPTER XIX — The Gravity Beam
- 22.CHAPTER XX — The Coming of the Green Globes
- 23.CHAPTER XXI — Reinforcements
- 24.CHAPTER XXII — The Great Conflict
- 25.CHAPTER XXIII — Into the Depths
- 26.CHAPTER XXIV — The Ending of It All — Behind them something fell with a crash; ape-men ran gibbering with fright. — THE END
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