Project Gutenberg 2010-06-13 Public domain in the USA. 60 Shaver, Richard S. 1907 1975 Lohrman, Paul Smith, Malcolm 1910 1966 The Plotters Reading ease score: 94.8 (5th grade). Very easy to read. By Richard S. Shaver writing under the name Alexander Blade. Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Plotters" by Alexander Blade is a science fiction novel written in the late 1940s. The book revolves around the themes of interplanetary espionage and the complexities of human emotion, as a being from Venus embarks on a mission to gather intelligence about Earth's nuclear capabilities while unexpectedly falling in love with a human girl named Beth. The story follows Marko, a Venusian agent, who comes to Earth under the guise of a college student. While navigating his mission to find scientist Eldeth Copperd, who has crucial knowledge about atomic weapons, he becomes romantically involved with Copperd's daughter, Beth. As Marko grapples with the duality of his identity as an agent and a lover, tensions rise when his superiors contemplate using Beth as leverage against her father. The narrative intensifies as Marko must confront a mutiny among his own ranks, ultimately leading to a showdown where he must protect Beth and her father from his fellow Venusians while navigating the challenges that his love for Beth introduces into his mission. Their relationship grows amidst conflict, culminating in revelations about loyalty, sacrifice, and the potential for a future together despite the hurdles of interspecies relations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32801/32801-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories Love stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 60952 60836 2024-10-14T04:46:37.243064 2023-09-14T09:32:56.566709 text/html text/html 57408 2021-01-06T17:43:51 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 190251 2021-01-06T17:43:51 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 200564 2024-10-14T04:46:39.372089 application/epub+zip 199432 2024-10-14T04:46:37.760079 application/epub+zip 84303 2024-10-14T04:46:37.495042 application/epub+zip 238897 2024-10-14T04:46:40.712058 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 231506 2024-10-14T04:46:39.100070 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 116595 2022-09-15T06:24:24.520093 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 52508 52380 2024-10-14T04:46:37.054066 2023-09-14T09:32:56.404699 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 52349 2021-01-06T17:43:51 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20239 2021-01-06T17:43:51 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21547 2024-10-14T04:46:40.842048 application/rdf+xml 24115 2024-10-14T04:46:37.556090 image/jpeg 4318 2024-10-14T04:46:37.525217 image/jpeg 190603 2024-10-14T04:46:37.255103 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 en.wikipedia