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The Onslaught from Rigel

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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

Bewertungen

This author has the best imagination

(5 Sterne)

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.