TY - BOOK AU - Pratt,Fletcher TI - The Onslaught from Rigel T2 - Produced from Wonder Stories Quarterly Winter 1932 AV - PS PY - 2012/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - War stories KW - Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction KW - Human-alien encounters -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invaders_from_Rigel; Release date is 2012-10-14; Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Onslaught from Rigel" by Fletcher Pratt is a science fiction novella first published in 1932. When a mysterious comet approaches Earth, Ben Ruby awakens to find himself transformed into a metal being while most of humanity has become lifeless statues. The comet is actually a spacecraft carrying the Lassans—militaristic elephantoid aliens from Rigel who plan to enslave or destroy all survivors. Ruby and fellow survivors must face thought-controlled creatures and armored forces as they fight to reclaim their planet and their humanity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41049 ER -