Project Gutenberg 2010-04-19 Public domain in the USA. 279 Sohl, Jerry 1913 2002 Sohl, Gerald Allan The Hand Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy January 1955. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Hand" by Jerry Sohl is a science fiction short story published in the early 1950s. Set against the backdrop of a rural American farm, the narrative explores themes of alien encounters and the consequences of human actions. The story begins with the protagonist, Alice McNearby, discovering a severed human hand brought home by her dog, Dobie, and quickly escalates into a tense interaction with extraterrestrial beings in search of the hand. The tale revolves around Alice's tumultuous relationship with her husband, Mac, and their encounter with an alien who claims the severed hand belongs to one of his crew members. After Mac carelessly discards the hand, believing it to be worthless, he becomes increasingly hostile towards the alien. Tension mounts as Alice pleads for understanding, while Mac remains obstinately violent. In a tragic turn of events, Mac's cruelty culminates in him suffering a similar fate as the alien when his own hand is severed, emphasizing the story’s themes of empathy, greed, and the repercussions of one's actions in the face of the unknown. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://book.klll.cc/files/32055/32055-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 91.4 (5th grade). Very easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: American Literature 49652 2025-06-13T07:54:21.445763 text/html 45755 2010-04-19T10:30:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 100353 2010-04-19T10:30:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 98932 2025-06-13T07:54:23.367762 application/epub+zip 97737 2025-06-13T07:54:21.841761 application/epub+zip 55721 2025-06-13T07:54:21.627765 application/epub+zip 133640 2025-06-13T07:54:24.706769 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 126336 2025-06-13T07:54:23.148752 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 85082 2022-09-14T16:10:56.223990 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 42702 2025-06-13T07:54:21.315784 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 42619 2010-04-19T10:30:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16190 2010-04-19T10:30:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19154 2025-06-13T07:54:24.847763 application/rdf+xml 23062 2025-06-13T07:54:21.703784 image/jpeg 4447 2025-06-13T07:54:21.664766 image/jpeg 106461 2025-06-13T07:54:21.468774 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia