Project Gutenberg 2022-05-06 Public domain in the USA. 154 Smith, George O. (George Oliver) 1911 1981 Smith, George Oliver Long, Wesley Orban, Paul 1896 1974 Recoil $aUnited States :$bStreet & Smith Publications, Incorporated,$c1943. Venus Equilateral Produced from Astounding Science-Fiction, November 1943 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Recoil" by George O. Smith is a science fiction novel written in the early 1940s. The narrative revolves around the concepts of space travel and the challenges associated with navigating through meteors in space. It explores the intricacies of scientific inventions and the personalities that drive technological progress within the backdrop of a futuristic setting. The story follows Walter Franks, an engineer at the Venus Equilateral Relay Station, who is experimenting with an electron gun designed to blast away meteors threatening spacecraft. His colleague, Don Channing, returns from a honeymoon just as trouble arises with a missing spaceship, the "Solar Queen", and a potential pirate threat led by the notorious Hellion Murdoch. While developing their technology to protect spacecraft, Don and Walt must navigate through challenges, including technical sabotage, operational failures, and unexpected consequences of their inventions. As tensions rise, they devise a plan to use their newly developed electron gun to confront Murdoch, leading to a climactic showdown that tests their ingenuity and resolve. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220221121947smith 1943 US Reading ease score: 82.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Space stations -- Fiction Weapons -- Fiction Space pirates -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 100375 2025-07-27T05:34:16.709867 text/html 77057 2024-10-18T21:39:59 text/html 574816 2025-07-27T05:34:19.281845 application/epub+zip 574788 2025-07-27T05:34:17.355901 application/epub+zip 91201 2025-07-27T05:34:17.061876 application/epub+zip 543243 2025-07-27T05:34:20.816855 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 535430 2025-07-27T05:34:19.019860 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 130242 2022-09-30T16:03:08.961407 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 92147 2025-07-27T05:34:16.526862 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 72297 2024-10-18T21:39:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17581 2025-07-27T05:34:20.971837 application/rdf+xml 28225 2025-07-27T05:34:17.174864 image/jpeg 4622 2025-07-27T05:34:17.119857 image/jpeg 580863 2025-07-27T05:34:16.731874 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