Ralph Milne Farley

Contents

I

II TOO MUCH STATIC

III YURI OR FORMIS?

IV THE COUP D'ETAT

V LOST AMID THE ROCKS

VI THE VAIRKINGS

VII RADIO ONCE MORE

VIII BUT WHY RADIO?

IX A PRISONER

X THE SIEGE OF SUR

XI ATT THE TERRIBLE

XII COMPANIONS IN MISERY

XIII FURTHER PROGRESS

XIV OLD FRIENDS

XV PLANS FOR ESCAPE

XVI AFTERTHOUGHTS

XVII THE BATTLE FOR VAIRKINGI

XVIII THE FALL OF VAIRKINGI

XIX THE BATTLE IN THE AIR

XX THE WHOOMANGS

XXI SOULS?

XXII FLIGHT

XXIII LUNO AND BEYOND

XXIV THE LOBSTEROID CIRCUIT

XXV ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE

XXVI THE DEBACLE

XXVII PEACE ON POROS

Transcriber's Notes

Ralph Milne Farley

ACE BOOKS, INC.
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THE RADIO PLANET
Originally published in 1926 as a serial in
Argosy All-Story Weekly.

Cover by John Schoenherr. Illustration by Jack Gaughan.

Ralph Milne Farley is also the author of
The Radio Beasts
available now from Ace Books (F-304)

Printed in U. S. A.

Author’s Foreword

Could you make a radio set? Don’t answer rashly. Don’t say that you have already built several. For note that we did not ask whether you could assemble a set from parts already manufactured by others, but rather whether you could build the entire set yourself—from the ground up. That means making every part you require, including the vacuum tubes, the acid in the batteries, the wires, the insulation.

If you think that you could do this, let us ask you one further question. Put yourself in the place of the hero of the following story, and imagine yourself stranded amid intelligent savages who have not progressed beyond the wood age. Under such circumstances, with nothing to guide you but your scientific memory, with no tools except those of your own creation, and with no materials save those furnished by nature, could you, though the lives and happiness of your dear ones depended upon it—could you make a radio set?

—R. M. F., 1926.