Project Gutenberg 2015-12-05 Public domain in the USA. 138 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. The Silver Menace Produced from The Thrill Book, September 1, 1919 and September 15, 1919 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Silver Menace" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Alexander Morrison, a wealthy steamship magnate, and his daughter Nita, who find themselves trapped on a yacht amidst a menacing phenomenon that turns the ocean’s surface into a strange, jellied mass. As they grapple with the mysterious force slowing their yacht and threatening their safety, a seaplane dispatched for rescue reveals that the enigma extends far beyond them, affecting the world at large. At the start of the narrative, the yacht owned by Morrison is navigating the ocean when it suddenly experiences a significant drop in speed. Morrison and Nita initially find the situation puzzling, but their concern grows as the yacht's engines struggle to overcome an invisible force, adorned with an unpleasant odor reminiscent of deep-sea mud. The plot thickens as the vessel stops moving entirely, leading to a frantic wireless call for assistance. Meanwhile, in a parallel storyline, Flight Commander Richard Davis receives the distress signal and prepares his seaplane to investigate the peculiar predicament. As both threads intertwine, the implications of the "Silver Menace" become painfully clear, escalating into a collective threat to humanity that Morrison, his daughter, and Davis must confront. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 74.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 137944 2025-08-20T10:49:32.553699 text/html 115425 2024-10-22T23:32:29 text/html 292017 2025-08-20T10:49:35.106732 application/epub+zip 292751 2025-08-20T10:49:32.998722 application/epub+zip 112762 2025-08-20T10:49:32.766726 application/epub+zip 348729 2025-08-20T10:49:36.760689 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 340561 2025-08-20T10:49:34.824692 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 161060 2022-09-23T03:39:59.897225 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 128096 2025-08-20T10:49:32.297724 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 108370 2024-10-22T23:32:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16769 2025-08-20T10:49:36.891707 application/rdf+xml 18245 2025-08-20T10:49:32.836709 image/jpeg 3371 2025-08-20T10:49:32.802748 image/jpeg 266994 2025-08-20T10:49:32.582709 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