Contains two short novels from the classic pulp magazine "Thrilling Wonder Stories" -- "The Wanderer's Return" and "Project Excelsior."

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. 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 The Onslaught from Rigel he combines that knowledge with a vivid and fertile scientific imagination to construct an interplanetary story that marks a new triumph. 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.

Onslaught from Rigel is Fletcher Pratt's classic tale of interplanetary warfare. Mankind struggles to defeat a foe far more powerful than itself, the Lassans from the Planet Rigel. Will life on earth ever be the same? Fast paced and inventive Pratt's reputation rests secure . . . Everett F. Bleiler

This early work by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Octopus Cycle' is a short story about towering octopuses that walk out of the sea and into the jungles of Madagascar.

This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.

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The mad Marquis de Saint-Imier attempts to blackmail France and install a reign of mass terror through his control of atomic forces and electromagnetic waves. But against him stand the indomitable Professor Mazelier and his assistant Monsieur Gribal. Who will prevail in the ultimate battle against the Radio-Terror? Eugene Thebault's Radio-Terror (1929) had the honor of being one of the very few French works selected by Hugo Gernsback to be translated by none other than Fletcher Pratt, the well-known author of The Well of the Unicorn, and it was published in 1933 in Wonder Stories. This new edition includes Frank R. Paul's original illustrations and an introduction by SF scholar Jean-Marc Lofficier.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.