
Beyond the stars, an alien ship from Trygon II materializes over New York, delivering an ultimatum that leaves humanity scrambling. In the wake of the invasion, a hulking soldier named Ross Savage is seized, bandaged, and subjected to a grotesque operation that swaps his skin and features for those of a Trygonian, while a mysterious Ceregraph implants the knowledge of a fallen enemy officer.
Now clad in the gleaming uniform of his captors, Savage stands at a General’s desk, his mind a patchwork of human memory and alien expertise. He wrestles with the shock of his new visage and the promise of vengeance for his murdered parents, all while grappling with the unsettling fact that the procedure transferred skill but left his emotions untouched. Listeners are drawn into a tense, near‑future conflict where identity, loyalty, and the cost of survival collide in a world reshaped by an extraterrestrial conquest.
Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (61K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2021-01-21
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
A little-known pulp-era science fiction writer, W. Bradford Martin is remembered for the novella Spoilers of the Spaceways, published in Planet Stories in 1953. His work carries the fast-moving, high-stakes feel that made mid-century magazine science fiction so much fun to read.
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