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Length7h 35m
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First published in 1922, "The Fire People" by one of the masters of early science fiction, Ray Cummings, is the second novel of trilogy of tales of Matter, Space, and Time ("The Girl in the Golden Atom" and "The Man Who Mastered Time" dealing with the other two elements, respectively). The Matter, Space and Time series postulates that matter, space and time are interlinked and that one cannot exist without the others.
"The Fire People" is the story of a fiery invasion from another planet. No one could have suspected that the Earth was in mortal danger. It started with a small meteor streaking across the sky and smashing into the Earth's surface, but the event was so much more than a simple collision between the Earth and a wandering piece of space rubble. A strange glow began to radiate from the meteor, a glow unlike anything known to Earthly science; and with these emanations came death, anything coming into contact with that light was immediately destroyed. The fate of the Earth fell into the hands of an inquisitive newspaper reporter and a brilliant professor of science as they strived to save mankind from its first interplanetary threat, an attack from a distant neighbour...
Ray Cummings was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre".
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.4 (37)
Includes Goodreads
GenreScience Fiction, Literary Classics, Young Adult
Length7 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 9, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter I - The Coming of the Light
2Chapter II - The Unknown Enemy
3Chapter III - The Landing of the Invaders
4Chapter IV - The Meeting
5Chapter V - Captured!
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6Chapter VI - Miela
7Chapter VII - The Mercutian Camp
8Chapter VIII - The Escape
9Chapter IX - Futile Attacks
10Chapter X - Miela's Story
11Chapter XI - To Save the World
12Chapter XII - The Landing on Mercury
13Chapter XIII - The Captive Earth-man
14Chapter XIV - The Ruler of the Light Country
15Chapter XV - The Mountain Conclave
16Chapter XVI - The Fire Planet
17Chapter XVII - The Fight at the Bayou
18Chapter XVIII - Revolution
19Chapter XIX - The New Ruler
20Chapter XX - In the Twilight Country
21Chapter XXI - Another Light-ray!
22Chapter XXII - The Theft of the Light-ray
23Chapter XXIII - The Storm
24Chapter XXIV - The Water City
25Chapter XXV - Preparations for War
26Chapter XXVI - The Battle
27Chapter XXVII - The Siege of the Lone City
28Chapter XXVIII - The End of Tao
29Chapter XXIX - The Return
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