There is very little more, to this narrative, that I need add of the events on Earth, Venus, and Mars this summer. The main are history now: the wild storms, the done by nature and the panic among the people—all of it has been as public news. The light-beams planted by Wandl in Greater New York, Grebhar, and Ferrok-Shahn have not yet themselves away. But they are and scientists say that they will soon be gone.
The call this the New Era. The of each of the three worlds was not altered; the[135] are at last to normal. But the of all three were by that Wandl we the station. The Earth day has been lengthened, resulting in the new calendar, the New Era. Our year, of 365-1/4 days, now contains, but 358.7 days.
Molo and Meka have been returned to Ferrok-Shahn. They were there for and and are imprisoned.
And Wandl? With her gravity-controls wrecked, Wandl to the forces. During those months of the and autumn no other appeared from her: did our world investigate. Her presence here, a little world one-sixth the size of the Moon, was enough!
Wandl moved with slow velocity, like a dallying, about to our Sun. What would her final be? By she in, from the Earth and Venus; missed Mercury by a wide margin; close around the Sun: came out again.
But the of the Sun, and Mercury her back. Her was not great enough.
I that late autumn when, with Anita, Snap, and Venza, I sat in the near Washington, at Wandl through the dark of the solar-scope. Doomed invader! She now as a dark over the Sun's giant, surface. This was her final plunge. The was presently and gone. It seemed, those giant, of gas, that there was an of light.
And some now that for a time our was a warmer, a little to mark the end of Wandl, the Invader.[136]
A CLASSIC NOVEL OF INTERPLANETARY WARFARE
There were nine major in the Solar System and it was their that man set up and with the Martian civilization. And then they a tenth planet—a maverick!
This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a one, for it was from space, close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, calculations and on the two worlds.
But so none then just how much trouble this new world would make. For it was WANDL THE INVADER and it was no planetoid. It was a world, by minds and and traveling into our with a purpose that of accident!
It's a from the days of great science-fiction adventure—now published in book form. When RAY CUMMINGS took of this early in 1957, the world of modern science-fiction one of its fathers. For the of this a great many of the most upon which the present of science-fiction is based. Following the lead of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, Cummings the the early of science-fiction in the last of the Nineteenth Century and the full of the in these middle of the Twentieth.
Born in 1887, Cummings into the possibilities of science by a personal with Thomas Alva Edison. During the 1920's and 1930's, he millions of readers with his of space and time. The and the were all parts of his canvas, and past, present, and future, the and the extra-dimensional, all their impact on the reading public through his many and novels.
