The Radiant Shell

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The Radiant Shell

by Paul Ernst

EN·~42 minutes·1 chapter

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The Radiant Shell - By Paul Ernst

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In a dimly lit war room, senior officials stare at a grim briefing: a tiny nation, Arvania, has stolen the Ziegler heat‑ray plans, a weapon capable of vaporising cities from miles away. The Secretary of War warns that if the schematics are smuggled out, a declaration of war could spell the end of the United States in under three months. The council is left scrambling for a desperate, almost impossible solution.

Enter Thorn Winter, a brilliant but haunted scientist who claims he can render himself invisible with a newly perfected camouflage coating. He offers a daring raid on the heavily guarded Arvanian embassy, arguing that a single, unseen man could walk in, take the plans, and walk out without a shot being fired. With the nation's survival hanging on his experiment, the secretive laboratory becomes the last hope for a country on the brink.

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Language

en

Duration

~42 minutes (40K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2007-07-30

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Paul Ernst

Paul Ernst

1899–1985

A prolific American pulp writer, this early science-fiction and fantasy author filled magazines with fast-moving adventures and strange ideas. He is especially remembered for the Doctor Satan stories and for work that appeared in magazines like Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories.

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