The Onslaught from Rigel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Onslaught from Rigel, credited to Fletcher Pratt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Onslaught from Rigel by Fletcher Pratt. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers “Mr. Pratt is well known for .… 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 …. 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. (Summary excerpted from the Preface.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Onslaught from Rigel
• Author credits: Fletcher Pratt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 6:49:14

Catalogue topics

• science fiction
• robots
• transformations
• interplanetary war
• survival story

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Preface — 1:47
2. 01 - Chapter 1: The Onslaught from Rigel — 16:29
3. 02 - Chapter 2: A Metal Community — 12:45
4. 03 - Chapter 3: Rebellion — 12:10
5. 04 - Chapter 4: Flight! — 21:18
6. 05 - Chapter 5: The Menace — 18:45
7. 06 - Chapter 6: The Terror by Night — 15:56
8. 07 - Chapter 7: An Exploration — 17:03
9. 08 - Chapter 8 The Dodos are Bombing — 16:45
10. 09 - Chapter 9: The Opening of the Conflict — 14:57
11. 10 - Chapter 10: Hopelessness — 17:39
12. 11 - Chapter 11: Capture — 22:32
13. 12 - Chapter 12: The Poisoned Paradise — 22:47
14. 13 - Chapter 13: The Lassan — 14:44
15. 14 - Chapter 14: In the Passages — 16:29
16. 15 - Chapter 15: The Lassan Explains — 17:45
17. 16 - Chapter 16: A Dash for Freedom — 17:00
18. 17 - Chapter 17: Marta's Sacrifice — 15:19
19. 18 - Chapter 18: The End of the Light-Ray — 11:14
20. 19 - Chapter 19: The Gravity Beam — 15:32
21. 20 - Chapter 20: The Coming of the Green Globes — 16:14
22. 21 - Chapter 21: Reinforcements — 19:27
23. 22 - Chapter 22: The Great Conflict — 16:15
24. 23 - Chapter 23: Into the Depths — 17:32

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