Project Gutenberg 2008-01-03 Public domain in the USA. 83 Long, Frank Belknap 1903 1994 The Sky Trap Produced by Greg Weeks, Alexander Bauer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Sky Trap" by Frank Belknap Long is a science fiction novel written in the early 1940s. The book explores themes of human nature and survival within an extraordinary and tense setting, as a group of characters navigates a bizarre situation that challenges their perceptions of reality and existence. It is likely to appeal to readers interested in speculative fiction that examines the consequences of scientific phenomena and the resilience of the human spirit. The story centers around Lawton, a meteorologist aboard the stratoship Perseus, who finds himself in a perplexing and dangerous situation when the ship becomes suspended in what appears to be an invisible bubble high in the atmosphere. As Lawton and the crew grapple with the lack of movement and the strange gases outside, they soon discover that they are not only trapped but also surrounded by rapidly proliferating and threatening alien vegetation. Tensions rise as the crew struggles with madness induced by the peculiar environment, and Lawton devises risky plans to escape. The narrative is a gripping exploration of how human instincts and social dynamics are tested in the face of the unknown, ultimately leading to a suspenseful confrontation with both the mysterious threats outside and the internal conflicts within the crew. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 61393 61402 2024-09-10T10:18:26.370472 2023-09-11T03:52:08.157058 text/html text/html 58424 2008-01-03T14:15:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 166504 2008-01-03T14:15:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 209402 2024-09-10T10:18:29.751469 application/epub+zip 208262 2024-09-10T10:18:27.637501 application/epub+zip 67972 2024-09-10T10:18:26.802483 application/epub+zip 354552 2024-09-10T10:18:31.370496 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 347379 2024-09-10T10:18:29.202491 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 128094 2022-09-11T08:32:51.024559 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 53308 53209 2024-09-10T10:18:26.128496 2023-09-11T03:52:07.943057 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 53223 2008-01-03T14:15:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21212 2008-01-03T14:15:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18725 2024-09-10T10:18:31.502448 application/rdf+xml 11283 2024-09-10T10:18:27.142477 image/jpeg 3141 2024-09-10T10:18:26.970464 image/jpeg 212069 2024-09-10T10:18:26.380508 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