Project Gutenberg 2021-02-25 Public domain in the USA. 577 Blish, James 1921 1975 Atheling, William Blish, James Benjamin Donel Against the Stone Beasts Produced from Planet Stories Fall 1948 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Against the Stone Beasts" by James Blish is a science fiction novel written in the late 1940s. The narrative explores themes of time travel, alien civilizations, and a war against an unseen predatory force inhabiting the Earth itself. It beautifully weaves speculative elements with deep emotional and philosophical undercurrents, capturing the tension between human experiences and alien cultures. The story follows the protagonist, Andreson, who accidentally time-travels to a future where winged beings called the Varese inhabit a civilization on Earth, now under siege by mysterious creatures known as the space-beasts. Through his interactions with Jina, a Varesian, and Atel, another winged being, Andreson learns about the war against these creatures that can move through solid matter. With the city under threat of annihilation and the characters facing tremendous odds, the plot navigates through themes of identity, survival, and the complex dynamics of interspecies relationships. The unfolding conflict leads to dramatic confrontations, revealing the fragility of existence and the illusion of separation between worlds, ultimately posing profound questions about belonging and the essence of life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 82.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Time travel -- Fiction Adventure stories PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 91033 2025-07-25T13:02:04.029993 text/html 68054 2024-10-18T11:25:15 text/html 515100 2025-07-25T13:02:06.256053 application/epub+zip 515250 2025-07-25T13:02:04.494000 application/epub+zip 100893 2025-07-25T13:02:04.232980 application/epub+zip 561317 2025-07-25T13:02:07.709035 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 553306 2025-07-25T13:02:05.992982 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 139001 2022-09-29T06:16:15.101136 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 83718 2025-07-25T13:02:03.877979 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 63887 2024-10-18T11:25:15 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16944 2025-07-25T13:02:07.839966 application/rdf+xml 31752 2025-07-25T13:02:04.338014 image/jpeg 5424 2025-07-25T13:02:04.284995 image/jpeg 460717 2025-07-25T13:02:04.046008 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