The Onslaught from Rigel
Fletcher Pratt
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“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.) (6 hr 49 min)
Chapters
Preface | 1:47 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Chapter 1: The Onslaught from Rigel | 16:29 | Read by Yoganandh T |
Chapter 2: A Metal Community | 12:45 | Read by Cbteddy |
Chapter 3: Rebellion | 12:10 | Read by Cadence1 |
Chapter 4: Flight! | 21:18 | Read by richardwiedeman |
Chapter 5: The Menace | 18:45 | Read by cssian |
Chapter 6: The Terror by Night | 15:56 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Chapter 7: An Exploration | 17:03 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Chapter 8 The Dodos are Bombing | 16:45 | Read by Chris Buchanan |
Chapter 9: The Opening of the Conflict | 14:57 | Read by Cbteddy |
Chapter 10: Hopelessness | 17:39 | Read by sarahbond |
Chapter 11: Capture | 22:32 | Read by James Oligney |
Chapter 12: The Poisoned Paradise | 22:47 | Read by James Oligney |
Chapter 13: The Lassan | 14:44 | Read by James Oligney |
Chapter 14: In the Passages | 16:29 | Read by James Oligney |
Chapter 15: The Lassan Explains | 17:45 | Read by James Oligney |
Chapter 16: A Dash for Freedom | 17:00 | Read by James Oligney |
Chapter 17: Marta's Sacrifice | 15:19 | Read by Stacey Malcolm |
Chapter 18: The End of the Light-Ray | 11:14 | Read by twomustangs |
Chapter 19: The Gravity Beam | 15:32 | Read by joeffl |
Chapter 20: The Coming of the Green Globes | 16:14 | Read by Chris Buchanan |
Chapter 21: Reinforcements | 19:27 | Read by AdamP |
Chapter 22: The Great Conflict | 16:15 | Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi |
Chapter 23: Into the Depths | 17:32 | Read by cssian |
Chapter 24: The Ending of It All | 20:50 | Read by James Oligney |
Reviews
This author has the best imagination
Linda in PNW
I can hardly explain what an imaginative and bizarre story this is. After earth is invaded and earthlings take on a most disturbing appearance, they retain humanity. Ah, if only this could be true. Through ingenuity, only humans could have, our heros undergo terrible suffering. I certainly did not get bored listening. In general I do not like a variety of readers but this was mostly ok. Chapter 22 reader had a lot of background noise including a dog and children. I didn't listen to most of that chapter. Thankfully, that was the only bad one.