The Onslaught from Rigel
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Chapters (59)
- The Onslaught from Rigel
- 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
- THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGEL
- CHAPTER II
- A Metal Community
- CHAPTER III
- Rebellion
- CHAPTER IV
- Flight!
- CHAPTER V
- The Menace
- CHAPTER VI
- The Terror by Night
- Instead of the darkness he had expected, the deck was flung into dazzling illumination.
- CHAPTER VII
- An Exploration
- CHAPTER VIII
- The Dodos are Bombing
- CHAPTER IX
- The Opening of the Conflict
- CHAPTER X
- Hopelessness
- One of the things would swing its trunk around and discharge a light-bolt at a house or other object.
- CHAPTER XI
- Capture
- CHAPTER XII
- The Poisoned Paradise
- He was rewarded by a tearing pain in his fingertip. Behind the ground glass a red light now appeared.
- CHAPTER XIII
- The Lassan
- CHAPTER XIV
- In the Passages
- Half a dozen ape-men stood behind the benches of their masters apparently serving at this singular meal.
- CHAPTER XV
- The Lassan Explains
- The star, like our own sun, was threatened by some enormous catastrophe, a titanic explosion.
- CHAPTER XVI
- A Dash for Freedom
- CHAPTER XVII
- Marta's Sacrifice
- 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.
- CHAPTER XIX
- The Gravity Beam
- CHAPTER XX
- The Coming of the Green Globes
- CHAPTER XXI
- Reinforcements
- CHAPTER XXII
- The Great Conflict
- CHAPTER XXIII
- Into the Depths
- 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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