Summary:
PLOT: Invasion from Mercury. This is how the invasion began. The farmer saw a huge fire burning near the center of his field. "It was circular in form and about thirty feet in diameter. He was astonished to see it there, but what surprised him more was its peculiar aspect." A glow began to emanate from it. The thing was later to be called the "Mercutian Light". And whatever entered the light was destroyed.
The fate of the Earth was in the hands of Bob Trevor, a newspaperman, Professor Newland, and others. Would the Earth be saved from the invaders from Mercury?
Is this story similar to H G Wells' War of the Worlds? Read it to find out.
Ray Cummings was called the "American H.G. Wells" and one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". THE FIRE PEOPLE is one of his early space adventures. It was originally serialized in 5 parts in All-Story Weekly Magazine (Oct 21 thru Nov 18, 1922). This upload only contains the complete text of "The Fire People." There are no other stories from All-Story Magazine.
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