Beyond the Point of Unknown (Space Travel & Alien Contact Novels). Ray Cummings

Beyond the Point of Unknown (Space Travel & Alien Contact Novels) - Ray Cummings


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      Ray Cummings

      Beyond the Point of Unknown (Space Travel & Alien Contact Novels)

      Brigands of the Moon, The Fire People, The White Invaders

      Books

      OK Publishing, 2020

       [email protected] Tous droits réservés.

      EAN 4064066397623

      Table of Contents

       Brigands of the Moon

       The Fire People

       The White Invaders

       The World Beyond

       Wandl the Invader

      Brigands of the Moon

       Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CHAPTER X.

       CHAPTER XI.

       CHAPTER XII.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       CHAPTER XV.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       CHAPTER XX.

       CHAPTER XXI.

       CHAPTER XXII.

       CHAPTER XXIII.

       CHAPTER XXIV.

       CHAPTER XXV.

       CHAPTER XXVI.

       CHAPTER XXVII.

       CHAPTER XXVIII.

       CHAPTER XXIX.

       CHAPTER XXX.

       CHAPTER XXXI.

       CHAPTER XXXII.

       CHAPTER XXXIII.

       CHAPTER XXXIV.

       CHAPTER XXXV.

       CHAPTER XXXVI.

       CHAPTER XXXVII.

       CHAPTER XXXVIII.

      CHAPTER I.

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      Our ship, the space-flyer, Planetara, whose home port was Greater New York, carried mail and passenger traffic to and from both Venus and Mars. Of astronomical necessity, our flights were irregular. The spring of 2070, with both planets close to the Earth, we were making two complete round trips. We had just arrived in Greater New York, one May evening, from Grebhar, Venus Free State. With only five hours in port here, we were departing the same night at the zero hour for Ferrok-Shahn, capital of the Martian Union.

      We were no sooner at the landing stage than I found a code flash summoning Dan Dean and me to Divisional Detective Headquarters. Dan "Snap" Dean was one of my closest friends. He was electron-radio operator of the Planetara. A small, wiry, red-headed chap, with a quick, ready laugh and the kind of wit that made everyone like him.

      The summons to Detective-Colonel Halsey's office surprised us. Dean eyed me.

      "You haven't been opening any treasure vaults, have you, Gregg?"

      "He wants you, also," I retorted.

      He laughed. "Well, he can roar at me like a traffic switch-man and my private life will remain my own."

      We could not think why we should be wanted. It was the darkness of mid-evening when we


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