Project Gutenberg 2020-06-05 Public domain in the USA. 105 Jacobi, Carl 1908 1997 Jacobi, Carl Richard Paul, Frank R. (Frank Rudolph) 1884 1963 Paul, Frank Rudolph Cosmic Castaway Produced from Planet Stories March 1943 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Cosmic Castaway" by Carl Jacobi is a science fiction novel written in the early 1940s. The story revolves around Mason Standish, an Earth defense engineer who becomes the sole survivor of a prison ship wrecked in uncharted space. As Earth faces imminent conquest by Sirian invaders, Standish must navigate the challenges of being marooned on an alien planet while devising strategies to thwart the extraterrestrial threat against humanity. The narrative follows Standish as he awakens in the wreckage of the Sirian prison ship, discovers the destruction of his fellow prisoners, and ultimately finds himself stranded on a jungle-covered alien world. He encounters a fellow survivor, Ga-Marr, from the planet Lyra, and learns about their shared enemy—the Sirian leader, Drum Faggard. Together, they work to construct a new spacecraft to liberate both their worlds. As they forge a daring alliance, Standish's journey evolves from survival toward a full-scale rebellion against the oppressive Sirians, culminating in high-stakes confrontations that determine the fate of Earth and Lyra. The novel explores themes of resilience, cooperation, and the fight against tyranny in a rich, imaginative cosmic setting. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 76.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction War stories Adventure stories Castaways -- Fiction Extrasolar planets -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 110842 2025-06-24T14:25:23.809408 text/html 87718 2024-10-18T03:47:09 text/html 264897 2025-06-24T14:25:26.188413 application/epub+zip 265487 2025-06-24T14:25:24.384415 application/epub+zip 103623 2025-06-24T14:25:23.986472 application/epub+zip 316282 2025-06-24T14:25:27.700418 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 308496 2025-06-24T14:25:25.974418 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 146891 2022-09-28T05:14:11.200125 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 102618 2023-09-26T12:56:55.384576 text/plain 82792 2024-10-18T03:47:09 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17476 2025-06-24T14:25:27.827355 application/rdf+xml 28134 2025-06-24T14:25:24.067397 image/jpeg 4926 2025-06-24T14:25:24.027386 image/jpeg 550979 2025-06-24T14:25:23.827371 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 en.wikipedia