Project Gutenberg 2021-09-15 Public domain in the USA. 119 Lewis, Richard O. Terry, W. E. 1921 1992 Terry, Willis E. Terry, Bill Earthmen Die Hard! $aUnited States :$bGreenleaf Publishing Company,$c1954. Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy June 1954 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Earthmen Die Hard!" by Richard O. Lewis is a science fiction novel written in the early 1950s. The book explores the theme of human resilience and adaptability in the face of extraterrestrial threats, weaving a narrative about a contaminated Earth and the attempts of alien inspectors to eliminate the threat. The story centers on two alien characters, Inspector Ryt and his subordinate Krembyl, as they grapple with the failure to properly decontaminate Earth, which has become populated despite prior attempts to eradicate the Earthmen. Ryt's growing frustration with Krembyl's repeated failures to manage the contamination leads to a frantic urgency to act before the situation spirals out of control. Meanwhile, on the human side, a couple is reveling in the hope of escaping the turmoil of their home planet, unaware of the lurking dangers and the actions of their extraterrestrial overseers. As the alien inspectors devise a drastic plan to eliminate the human presence, the narrative builds tension and explores themes of survival, bravery, and the consequences of underestimating one's enemy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20210306110658lewis 1954 US Reading ease score: 77.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction Earth (Planet) -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 36931 2025-06-26T08:17:54.769053 text/html 12912 2024-10-18T16:11:26 text/html 446950 2025-06-26T08:17:56.316063 application/epub+zip 445787 2025-06-26T08:17:55.127045 application/epub+zip 76172 2025-06-26T08:17:54.932059 application/epub+zip 479546 2025-06-26T08:17:57.388035 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 472562 2025-06-26T08:17:56.138084 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 102996 2022-09-29T19:57:33.273348 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 30788 2025-06-26T08:17:54.676044 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 10894 2024-10-18T16:11:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17296 2025-06-26T08:17:57.515020 application/rdf+xml 29253 2025-06-26T08:17:55.016034 image/jpeg 4816 2025-06-26T08:17:54.974053 image/jpeg 405395 2025-06-26T08:17:54.780057 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