Invader From Infinity

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Invader From Infinity

by George A. Whittington

EN·~23 minutes

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Description

A seasoned commander watches a lone, gleaming sphere loom on his view screen, the silent harbinger of an alien force that has already wiped out every patrol daring enough to approach. With his crew’s nerves taut, McPartland orders the fastest, most heavily armed fighter in the system into a desperate chase, hoping the ship’s advanced defenses will hold long enough to buy the Solar System a chance. The battle erupts in a storm of plasma rays and frantic maneuvers, each hit tearing through hull sections and testing the limits of human resolve.

Amid the crackle of generators and the cold glare of distant stars, the crew must decide whether to press the attack or retreat, all while the mysterious enemy shows no sign of communication or mercy. As the alien sphere draws nearer, the stakes rise: destroy it, or watch a whole planetary network fall under an unknown intelligence’s relentless conquest.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~23 minutes (22K 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

2020-09-24

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

George A. Whittington

George A. Whittington

Best known for fast-moving pulp science fiction, this writer published stories in the early 1950s that carried readers to Mars, Venus, and the deeper reaches of space. His surviving work has found a second life through public-domain editions, making his adventures easy to rediscover today.

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