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Ray Cummings
The Fire People
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664597762
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF THE LIGHT.
CHAPTER II. THE UNKNOWN ENEMY.
CHAPTER III. THE LANDING OF THE INVADERS.
CHAPTER VII. THE MERCUTIAN CAMP.
CHAPTER XI. TO SAVE THE WORLD.
CHAPTER XII. THE LANDING ON MERCURY.
(Narrative continued by Alan Newland.)
CHAPTER XIII. THE CAPTIVE EARTH‑MAN.
CHAPTER XIV. THE RULER OF THE LIGHT COUNTRY.
CHAPTER XV. THE MOUNTAIN CONCLAVE.
CHAPTER XVII. THE FIGHT AT THE BAYOU.
CHAPTER XX. IN THE TWILIGHT COUNTRY.
CHAPTER XXI. ANOTHER LIGHT‑RAY!
CHAPTER XXII. THE THEFT OF THE LIGHT‑RAY.
CHAPTER XXV. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SIEGE OF THE LONE CITY.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE END OF TAO.
CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF THE LIGHT.
CHAPTER II. THE UNKNOWN ENEMY.
CHAPTER III. THE LANDING OF THE INVADERS.
CHAPTER IV. THE MEETING.
CHAPTER V. CAPTURED!
CHAPTER VI. MIELA.
CHAPTER VII. THE MERCUTIAN CAMP.
CHAPTER VIII. THE ESCAPE.
CHAPTER IX. FUTILE ATTACKS.
CHAPTER X. MIELA'S STORY.
CHAPTER XI. TO SAVE THE WORLD.
CHAPTER XII. THE LANDING ON MERCURY.
CHAPTER XIII. THE CAPTIVE EARTH-MAN.
CHAPTER XIV. THE RULER OF THE LIGHT COUNTRY.
CHAPTER XV. THE MOUNTAIN CONCLAVE.
CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRE PLANET.
CHAPTER XVII. THE FIGHT AT THE BAYOU.
CHAPTER XVIII. REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER XIX. THE NEW RULER.
CHAPTER XX. IN THE TWILIGHT COUNTRY.
CHAPTER XXI. ANOTHER LIGHT‑RAY!
CHAPTER XXII. THE THEFT OF THE LIGHT‑RAY.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE STROM.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WATER CITY.
CHAPTER XXV. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE BATTLE.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SIEGE OF THE LONE CITY.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE END OF TAO.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE RETURN.
CHAPTER I.
THE COMING OF THE LIGHT.
The first of the new meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 11th. Astronomically, the event was recorded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently was a new star, increasing in the short space of a few hours from invisibility to a power beyond that of the first magnitude, and then as rapidly fading again to invisibility. This star was recorded by two of the other great North American observatories, and by one in the Argentine Republic. That it was comparatively small in mass and exceedingly close to the earth, even when first discovered, was obvious. All observers agreed that