Project Gutenberg 2022-11-14 Public domain in the USA. 113 Burks, Arthur J. 1898 1974 The vanishers $aUnited States :$bPopular Publications, Inc.,$c1950. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Vanishers" by Arthur J. Burks is a science fiction novelette written in the early 1950s. The story revolves around a group of marines who find themselves in an inexplicable situation where they are trapped by a mysterious invisible barrier in a bizarre desert setting. The book likely explores themes of survival, the unknown, and the nature of reality as its characters confront the terrifying phenomena occurring around them. In "The Vanishers," a marine unit led by Major Rafe King lands in what they believe to be Cuba, only to discover that they have been transported to a vast, desolate desert where the Caribbean Sea has vanished. As they attempt to understand their predicament, they encounter an invisible wall that confines them, along with strange Shadow Men who challenge their survival. Tensions rise when Japanese soldiers, unaware of the war's end, stumble into their midst, complicating the already dire situation. The marines must band together to face not only the enigmatic forces at play but also the existential threats posed by these elusive Shadow Men and the ultimate realization that they may not even be on Earth anymore, leading to a gripping conclusion filled with suspense and mystery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220528080304burks 1950 US Reading ease score: 83.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Marines -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 93223 2025-06-27T10:41:59.162106 text/html 70279 2024-10-19T01:56:36 text/html 539028 2025-06-27T10:42:02.970126 application/epub+zip 537819 2025-06-27T10:42:00.803134 application/epub+zip 397371 2025-06-27T10:41:59.767080 application/epub+zip 1678485 2025-06-27T10:42:04.488106 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1670360 2025-06-27T10:42:02.343119 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 85812 2025-06-27T10:41:58.988107 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 65971 2024-10-19T01:56:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15996 2025-06-27T10:42:04.610069 application/rdf+xml 32383 2025-06-27T10:42:00.242111 image/jpeg 4931 2025-06-27T10:42:00.001145 image/jpeg 3144763 2025-06-27T10:41:59.194126 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