# The Onslaught from Rigel

Published in Wonder Science Quarterly, Winter 1932
The Onslaught from Rigel
By FLETCHER PRATT
A jagged beam of flame, intenser than the hottest furnace leaped through the air, struck the green globe and reached the earth in a thousand tiny rivulets of light.
THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGEL
By the author of “The Reign of the Ray,” “The War of the Giants,” etc.
FLETCHER PRATT
   Mr. Pratt is well known for his “Reign of the Ray,” and “The War of the Giants” where in both stories he showed his excellent knowledge of warfare, and what a future war might be like.
   In this story he combines that knowledge with a vivid and fertile scientific imagination to construct an interplanetary story that marks a new triumph for Wonder Stories Quarterly.
   We know that many scientists believe that life may originally have come to earth in the form of spores, from other solar systems and other universes. We therefore might really have had our home dim ages ago, on worlds distantly removed from our earth.
   The ability to travel the interstellar spaces, however, might also be possessed by other creatures—creatures driven by fear, necessity and by the will to conquer. And if they come, in mighty waves, with scientific powers far beyond us, to dominate the earth, a terrible time will face the puny human race.
   And in this story they do come, and provoke some of the strangest and most exciting adventures that have yet been recorded.

## The Onslaught from Rigel

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* Chapter I: Awakening
* Chapter II: A Metal Community
* Chapter III: Rebellion
* Chapter IV: Flight!
* Chapter V: The Menace
* Chapter VI: The Terror by Night
* Chapter VII: An Exploration
* Chapter VIII: The Dodos Are Bombing
* Chapter IX: The Opening of the Conflict
* Chapter X: Despair
* Chapter XI: Capture
* Chapter XII: The Poisoned Paradise
* Chapter XIII: The Lassan
* Chapter XIV: In the Passages
* Chapter XV: The Lassan Explains
* Chapter XVI: A Dash for Freedom
* Chapter XVII: Marta's Sacrifice
* Chapter XVIII: The End of the Light-Ray
* Chapter XIX: The Gravity Beam
* Chapter XX: The Coming of the Green Globes
* Chapter XXI: Reinforcements
* Chapter XXII: The Great Conflicts
* Chapter XXIII: Into the Depths
* Chapter XXIV: The End of It All
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