{"product_id":"2940015501490","title":"The Onslaught From Rigel","description":"Mr. Pratt is well known for his \"Reign of the Ray,\" and \"The War of the\u003cbr\u003eGiants\" where in both stories he showed his excellent knowledge of\u003cbr\u003ewarfare, and what a future war might be like.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this story he combines that knowledge with a vivid and fertile\u003cbr\u003escientific imagination to construct an interplanetary story that marks a\u003cbr\u003enew triumph for WONDER STORIES QUARTERLY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe know that many scientists believe that life may originally have come\u003cbr\u003eto earth in the form of spores, from other solar systems and other\u003cbr\u003euniverses. We therefore might really have had our home dim ages ago, on\u003cbr\u003eworlds distantly removed from our earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ability to travel the interstellar spaces, however, might also be\u003cbr\u003epossessed by other creatures--creatures driven by fear, necessity and by\u003cbr\u003ethe will to conquer. And if they come, in mighty waves, with scientific\u003cbr\u003epowers far beyond us, to dominate the earth, a terrible time will face\u003cbr\u003ethe puny human race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd in this story they do come, and provoke some of the strangest and\u003cbr\u003emost exciting adventures that have yet been recorded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGEL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMurray Lee woke abruptly, with the memory of the sound that had roused\u003cbr\u003ehim drumming at the back of his head, though his conscious mind had been\u003cbr\u003ebeyond its ambit. His first sensation was an overpowering stiffness in\u003cbr\u003eevery muscle--a feeling as though he had been pounded all over, though\u003cbr\u003ehis memory supplied no clue to the reason for such a sensation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePainfully, he turned over in bed and felt the left elbow where the ache\u003cbr\u003eseemed to center. He received the most tremendous shock of his life. The\u003cbr\u003emotion was attended by a creaking clang and the elbow felt exceedingly\u003cbr\u003elike a complex wheel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe sat up to make sure he was awake, tossing the offending arm free of\u003cbr\u003ethe covers. The motion produced another clang and the arm revealed\u003cbr\u003eitself to his astonished gaze as a system of metal bands, bound at the\u003cbr\u003eelbow by the mechanism he had felt before, and crowned, where the\u003cbr\u003efingers should be, by steely talons terminating in rubber-like\u003cbr\u003efinger-tips. Yet there seemed to be no lack of feeling in the member.\u003cbr\u003eFor a few seconds he stared, open-mouthed, then lifted the other arm. It\u003cbr\u003ewas the right-hand counterpart of the device he had been gazing at. He\u003cbr\u003eessayed to move one, then the other--the shining fingers obeyed his\u003cbr\u003ethought as though they were flesh and blood.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084420727024,"sku":"2940015501490","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015501490","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}