Project Gutenberg 2006-02-27 Public domain in the USA. 82 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. Operation Terror Reading ease score: 85.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Geoffrey Kidd, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Operation Terror" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novel written in the mid-20th century. The story revolves around an unusual event that occurs when a mysterious object descends from space, disrupting the lives of a group of surveyors and construction workers in Boulder Lake National Park. The protagonist, Lockley, becomes embroiled in the chaos as he navigates the alarming circumstances surrounding the appearance of this extraterrestrial object, while also grappling with his personal feelings for a fellow worker, Jill Holmes. The opening of the book introduces Lockley, who is working to establish baseline measurements for a park map when he becomes aware of a radar anomaly reported from Alaska. As Lockley goes about his mundane day, the news of an incoming object from space begins to escalate into a frenzy, prompting military alerts and widespread panic. As his colleague Vale reports strange occurrences linked to the object's landing, Lockley faces the prospect of non-human creatures emerging from the ship, putting Jill and others in potential danger. This suspenseful setup merges elements of a sci-fi thriller and personal drama, establishing a tense atmosphere where the fate of humanity rests upon understanding the intentions of alien visitors. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction Human-alien encounters -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 306280 306281 2024-10-08T05:17:22.569613 2023-09-08T07:30:17.488802 text/html text/html 308008 2009-01-08T21:17:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 111610 2009-01-08T21:17:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 181128 2024-10-08T05:17:28.867077 application/epub+zip 182452 2024-10-08T05:17:24.489103 application/epub+zip 182452 2024-10-08T05:17:23.284085 application/epub+zip 340517 2024-10-08T05:17:32.252066 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 314541 2024-10-08T05:17:28.100060 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 289683 2022-09-08T13:28:06.992397 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 286975 286848 2024-10-08T05:17:21.773614 2023-09-08T07:30:16.943780 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 286757 2009-01-08T21:16:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 106725 2009-01-08T21:17:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20380 2024-10-08T05:17:32.379009 application/rdf+xml 12722 2024-10-08T05:17:23.837065 image/jpeg 3533 2024-10-08T05:17:23.564079 image/jpeg 171605 2024-10-08T05:17:22.596577 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia