Length7h 34m
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[...]"The first of the new meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 11th. Astronomically, the event was recorded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently was a new star, increasing in the short space of a few hours from invisibility to a power beyond that of the first magnitude, and then as rapidly fading again to invisibility. This star was recorded by two of the other great North American observatories, and by one in the Argentine Republic. That it was comparatively small in mass and exceedingly close to the earth, even when first discovered, was obvious. All observers agreed that it was a heavenly body of an entirely new order."[...]
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Rating★★★ 3.4 (37)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction, Science Fiction
Length7 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2019
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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