When the Sleepers Woke
()
About this ebook
Only two small groups of people—enemies—survive the vast desolation of the Final War.
Read more from Arthur Leo Zagat
The Great Dome on Mercury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tomorrow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSeven Out of Time Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Cat Weekly #96 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Faceless Men Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Cat Weekly #52 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlight of the Silver Eagle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChildren of Tomorrow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Cat Weekly #51 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen the Sleepers Woke Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCavern of the Shining Pool Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lanson Screen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to When the Sleepers Woke
Related ebooks
Astounding Stories. February 1931.: Volume 5, No. 2. February, 1931 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAstounding Stories of Super-Science, Volume 14: February 1931 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAstounding Stories, February, 1931 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAstounding Stories, February, 1931 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRaiders Invisible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Emperor's Fist: A Blackhawk Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fate of U-1055: The Other Side of Time, #0 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe First Protectors: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Airlords of Han Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Works of Samuel Hopkins Adams Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThree Novels of Creeping Terror: The Night Boat, Baal, and Bethany's Sin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWaves of Glory Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Armada's Wake Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Night Boat Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Jekyll Island Enigma Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRaiders Invisible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hunt for Hitler's Warship Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beneath the Artic Ice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRaiders Invisible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mystery Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Quantum Troopers Return Episode 2: Free Fall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMorale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lost Temple: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Against All Enemies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFalling Angel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSeed of the Arctic Ice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Farpool: Marauders of Seome Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings7 short stories that ESFP will love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Short Stories For You
Finn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Birds: Erotica Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Things They Carried Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Stories of Ray Bradbury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lovecraft Country: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Skeleton Crew Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Explicit Content: Red Hot Stories of Hardcore Erotica Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Four Past Midnight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Five Tuesdays in Winter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ficciones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unfinished Tales Of Numenor And Middle-Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Short Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hot Blooded Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sour Candy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sex and Erotic: Hard, hot and sexy Short-Stories for Adults Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don Quixote Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Reviews for When the Sleepers Woke
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
When the Sleepers Woke - Arthur Leo Zagat
978-963-524-458-4
Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from Astounding Stories November 1932. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
Prepare for battle!
The command crackled in Allan Dane's helmet. Enemy approaching from southeast! Squadron commanders execute plan two!
Allan settled back in the seat of his one-man helicopter, his broad frame rendered even bulkier by the leather suit that incased it. He was tensed, but quiescent. Action would be first joined sixty miles away, and his own squadron was in reserve.
Over New York and its bay the American air fleet was in motion. Suddenly movement ceased, and the formation froze. Ten flying forts were each the apex of a far-spread cone, axis horizontal, whose body was the fanned back-ranging of its squadron of a thousand helicopter planes. The cones bristled oceanward from the sea-margin of New York, their points a fifty-mile arc of defiance, their bases tangent to one another, almost touching the ground at their lower edges, then circling upward for ten thousand feet. From van to rear each formation was five miles in length.
Behind and above, the main body of the fleet sloped in echeloned ranks, hiding the threatened city with an impenetrable terraced wall of buzzing helios and massive forts. Up, back, up, back, the serried masses reached, till the rearmost were twenty-five thousand feet aloft. And farther behind, unmoving on their six-mile level, were the light 'copters of the reserve. Dane gazed down that tremendous vista to the far-off front line, and swore softly. Just his luck to be out of the scrap: the enemy would never penetrate to these northern out-skirts of New York.
Men of the fleet!
General Huntington's voice sounded from his flagship, the Washington. Somehow its gruffness overrode the mechanical quality of the intra-fleet radio transmission. Almost it seemed he was there in the tiny cabin. Reports have at this moment been received that our attack fleets have been everywhere successful. Our rocket ships have destroyed Tokyo, Addis Ababa, Odessa, Peiping and Cape Town, and are now ranging inland through enemy territory.
Even through the double leather of his helmet a roar came to Allan. He felt his craft vibrate to the exultant cheers of the fleet. His own mouth was open, and his throat rasping… .
"But—the single syllable choked the surge of sound—
London, Paris, and Berlin have fallen to the enemy. The words thudded in the pilot's ear-phones.
San Francisco is being attacked. Communication with New Orleans has failed. The enemy are in sight of Buenos Aires—" The general broke off, and Allan sensed dully that there was other news, news that he dared not give the fleet.
The gruff voice changed. Men of the fleet, New York is in our charge. The enemy is upon us, the battle is commencing. The issue is in your hands.
Pat on his last word, a dark cloud spread along the south-eastern horizon. From the spear-heads of the cone formations great green beams shot out across the sea. Orange flame flared in answer, all along the black bank that was the enemy fleet. Where the green beams struck the orange blinked out, and the blue of sky showed through. And the American ships were as yet untouched. A great shout rose to Allan's lips—that they had the range on the enemy, and the