Project Gutenberg 2009-08-23 Public domain in the USA. 57 Ernst, Paul 1899 1985 Ernst, Paul Frederick The Planetoid of Peril Reading ease score: 72.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Planetoid of Peril" by Paul Ernst is a science fiction novel published in the early 20th century, specifically in the early 1930s. The story revolves around the adventures of Harley 2Q14N20, a mining engineer who seeks an exclusive asteroid home and ends up buying the seemingly uninhabitable asteroid Z-40, notorious for housing a terrifying, indestructible creature that poses a lethal threat to anyone who attempts to land there. The narrative explores themes of courage, love, and the struggle against overwhelming odds as Harley confronts the monstrous tenant of his new property. In summary, Harley 2Q14N20's journey begins with his desire to find a profitable asteroid to secure a future with his love, Beatrice 3W28W12. After obtaining Z-40, he discovers that the asteroid is home to a gigantic creature, part organic and part mineral, which he initially cannot combat due to his inadequate weaponry. Despite a harrowing encounter that leaves his spaceship destroyed and his life hanging by a thread, Harley's resourcefulness leads him to devise a plan to rid the asteroid of the monstrous beast. In a climactic moment, he successfully uses a repellor from his wrecked ship to launch the creature into space, thereby transforming Z-40 into the perfect paradise he desired. Ultimately, the tale conveys themes of bravery and the triumph of human spirit against the unknown. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Astounding Stories Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 78522 78525 2024-10-12T17:15:31.051173 2023-09-13T07:50:38.569113 text/html text/html 75411 2009-08-23T09:39:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 51568 2009-08-23T09:39:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 112274 2024-10-12T17:15:35.556137 application/epub+zip 111761 2024-10-12T17:15:32.887162 application/epub+zip 89284 2024-10-12T17:15:31.733165 application/epub+zip 209560 2024-10-12T17:15:37.441141 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 202770 2024-10-12T17:15:34.770160 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 139060 2022-09-13T17:40:36.128512 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 70569 70474 2024-10-12T17:15:30.732167 2023-09-13T07:50:38.353119 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 70479 2009-08-23T09:39:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 27855 2009-08-23T09:39:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20013 2024-10-12T17:15:37.562442 application/rdf+xml 12564 2024-10-12T17:15:32.260182 image/jpeg 3761 2024-10-12T17:15:31.994153 image/jpeg 109922 2024-10-12T17:15:31.062158 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