Project Gutenberg 2009-09-06 Public domain in the USA. 163 Various Verschillende Various, Various Bates, Harry 1900 1981 Bates, Hiram Gilmore Winter, H. G. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 Reading ease score: 75.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. The Wall of Death / Victor Rousseau The Pirate Planet (Part 1 of 4) / Charles Willard Diffin The Destroyer / William Merriam Rouse The Gray Plague / Lloyd Arthur Eshbach Jetta of the Lowlands (Part 3 of 3) / Ray Cummings Vagabonds of Space / Harl Vincent Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930" by Various is a collection of science fiction narratives written in the early 20th century. The anthology explores themes of futuristic technology, interplanetary conflicts, and bizarre life forms, with stories that range from military failure against unknown threats to interstellar communication. The tales feature various characters, including scientists and heroes confronting extraordinary challenges in a speculative world. The opening of the collection presents a story titled "The Wall of Death" by Victor Rousseau. It begins in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity faces annihilation at the hands of grotesque, half-human jelly-like creatures known as Earth Giants, which have emerged from Antarctica. The protagonists, Kay Bevan and Cliff Hynes, are forced to reckon with the reality of their military defeat and moral dilemmas regarding an annual sacrifice of citizens to the monsters. As they struggle to develop a device capable of neutralizing the threat, personal stakes heighten with Kay's deepening feelings for his love interest, Ruth Deane. The harrowing situation unfolds in a landscape filled with despair and looming terror, setting the stage for a gripping tale of survival and sacrifice. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/29919/29919-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction -- Periodicals Science fiction, American -- Periodicals PN Text Science Fiction Astounding Stories Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 529588 529008 2024-10-12T17:56:11.129113 2023-09-13T08:22:53.179136 text/html text/html 527260 2021-01-05T12:46:55 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 687073 2021-01-05T12:46:55 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 738478 2024-10-12T17:56:19.473063 application/epub+zip 750530 2024-10-12T17:56:12.432093 application/epub+zip 258383 2024-10-12T17:56:11.788092 application/epub+zip 908675 2024-10-12T17:56:24.647059 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 871848 2024-10-12T17:56:18.814081 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 377433 2022-09-14T03:36:15.225845 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 475888 475784 2024-10-12T17:56:09.446643 2023-09-13T08:22:51.753110 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 475726 2021-01-05T12:46:55 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 180223 2021-01-05T12:46:55 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 475717 2021-01-05T12:46:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 180193 2021-01-05T12:46:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22933 2024-10-12T17:56:24.807027 application/rdf+xml 31019 2024-10-12T17:56:11.903247 image/jpeg 4971 2024-10-12T17:56:11.844099 image/jpeg 726120 2024-10-12T17:56:11.254138 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