The Onslaught from Rigel

Fletcher Pratt (1897 - 1956)

“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.)

Genre(s): Science Fiction

Language: English

Keyword(s): science fiction (411), transformations (3), robots (2), interplanetary war (1), survival story (1)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Winnifred Assmann
00:01:47
Play 01 Chapter 1: The Onslaught from Rigel Yoganandh T
00:16:29
Play 02 Chapter 2: A Metal Community Cbteddy
00:12:45
Play 03 Chapter 3: Rebellion Cadence1
00:12:10
Play 04 Chapter 4: Flight! richardwiedeman
00:21:18
Play 05 Chapter 5: The Menace cssian
00:18:45
Play 06 Chapter 6: The Terror by Night Winnifred Assmann
00:15:56
Play 07 Chapter 7: An Exploration Winnifred Assmann
00:17:03
Play 08 Chapter 8 The Dodos are Bombing Chris Buchanan
00:16:45
Play 09 Chapter 9: The Opening of the Conflict Cbteddy
00:14:57
Play 10 Chapter 10: Hopelessness sarahbond
00:17:39
Play 11 Chapter 11: Capture James Oligney
00:22:32
Play 12 Chapter 12: The Poisoned Paradise James Oligney
00:22:47
Play 13 Chapter 13: The Lassan James Oligney
00:14:44
Play 14 Chapter 14: In the Passages James Oligney
00:16:29
Play 15 Chapter 15: The Lassan Explains James Oligney
00:17:45
Play 16 Chapter 16: A Dash for Freedom James Oligney
00:17:00
Play 17 Chapter 17: Marta's Sacrifice Stacey Malcolm
00:15:19
Play 18 Chapter 18: The End of the Light-Ray twomustangs
00:11:14
Play 19 Chapter 19: The Gravity Beam joeffl
00:15:32
Play 20 Chapter 20: The Coming of the Green Globes Chris Buchanan
00:16:14
Play 21 Chapter 21: Reinforcements AdamP
00:19:27
Play 22 Chapter 22: The Great Conflict Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi
00:16:15
Play 23 Chapter 23: Into the Depths cssian
00:17:32
Play 24 Chapter 24: The Ending of It All James Oligney
00:20:50