Project Gutenberg 2010-04-19 Public domain in the USA. 65 Sohl, Jerry 1913 2002 Sohl, Gerald Allan The Hand Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Hand" by Jerry Sohl is a science fiction short story published in the early 1950s. Set against the backdrop of a rural American farm, the narrative explores themes of alien encounters and the consequences of human actions. The story begins with the protagonist, Alice McNearby, discovering a severed human hand brought home by her dog, Dobie, and quickly escalates into a tense interaction with extraterrestrial beings in search of the hand. The tale revolves around Alice's tumultuous relationship with her husband, Mac, and their encounter with an alien who claims the severed hand belongs to one of his crew members. After Mac carelessly discards the hand, believing it to be worthless, he becomes increasingly hostile towards the alien. Tension mounts as Alice pleads for understanding, while Mac remains obstinately violent. In a tragic turn of events, Mac's cruelty culminates in him suffering a similar fate as the alien when his own hand is severed, emphasizing the story’s themes of empathy, greed, and the repercussions of one's actions in the face of the unknown. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32055/32055-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 49499 49512 2024-09-13T12:52:27.115043 2023-09-14T07:00:14.014114 text/html text/html 45755 2010-04-19T10:30:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 100353 2010-04-19T10:30:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 98844 2024-09-13T12:52:28.875013 application/epub+zip 97888 2024-09-13T12:52:27.461026 application/epub+zip 55814 2024-09-13T12:52:27.271042 application/epub+zip 133696 2024-09-13T12:52:30.180015 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 126336 2024-09-13T12:52:28.690025 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 85082 2022-09-14T16:10:56.223990 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 42702 42599 2024-09-13T12:52:26.987018 2023-09-14T07:00:13.906105 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 42619 2010-04-19T10:30:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16190 2010-04-19T10:30:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18878 2024-09-13T12:52:30.309015 application/rdf+xml 23062 2024-09-13T12:52:27.338029 image/jpeg 4447 2024-09-13T12:52:27.304037 image/jpeg 106528 2024-09-13T12:52:27.133041 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