Project Gutenberg 2022-05-06 Public domain in the USA. 67 Smith, George O. (George Oliver) 1911 1981 Smith, George Oliver Long, Wesley Orban, Paul 1896 1974 The Firing Line $aUnited States :$bStreet & Smith Publications, Incorporated,$c1944. Venus Equilateral Reading ease score: 76.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Firing Line" by George O. Smith is a science fiction novel written in the early to mid-20th century. The story revolves around themes of revenge, space piracy, and the interplay between technology and human ambition. It explores the life of Mark Kingman, a lawyer entangled with the criminal mastermind Allison Murdoch, who seeks vengeance against a space communication company, Venus Equilateral, after suffering a prior defeat. In the narrative, the ambitious Murdoch escapes imprisonment and approaches Kingman, proposing a plan to take control of Venus Equilateral through illegal means. As they concoct schemes that involve high-tech weaponry and economic manipulation, Murdoch's intentions lead to clashes with the station's personnel, primarily Don Channing, who is determined to thwart Murdoch’s malicious ambitions. The novel contrasts the intelligence of scientific innovation with the moral implications of using such power for personal vendettas. Ultimately, the climax involves a high-stakes confrontation where advanced technology plays a pivotal role, culminating in a dramatic showdown that raises questions about ethics in technological advancements. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220222095646smith 1944 US en Science fiction Criminals -- Fiction Space stations -- Fiction Weapons -- Fiction Space pirates -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 103818 103828 2024-09-28T06:09:43.718254 2023-09-29T07:02:14.792216 text/html text/html 104532 2022-05-06T14:51:54 text/html 642570 2024-09-28T06:09:46.437258 application/epub+zip 643407 2024-09-28T06:09:44.332276 application/epub+zip 98316 2024-09-28T06:09:43.978276 application/epub+zip 594813 2024-09-28T06:09:48.078241 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 586721 2024-09-28T06:09:46.163247 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140662 2022-09-30T16:02:25.097548 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 94830 94864 2024-09-28T06:09:43.444266 2023-09-29T07:02:14.548152 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 94486 2022-05-06T14:51:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20021 2024-09-28T06:09:48.221226 application/rdf+xml 29950 2024-09-28T06:09:44.113237 image/jpeg 4814 2024-09-28T06:09:44.043261 image/jpeg 675070 2024-09-28T06:09:43.743273 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