Albert dePina Henry Hasse 1 hr 35 min read

In the phosphorescent swamps of Venus, an enslaved man hunts rare purple lily-globes to buy his freedom, three more and he's free.

Albert dePina and Henry Hasse's 1943 story plunges Mark Denning into a ghastly green Venusian night where iridescent Josmian globes mean liberty and an ironic alien voice mocks the 'lower species.' Lush, feverish planetary pulp with vivid color and cruelty. Read it for atmospheric golden-age space opera dripping with the jungle-Venus of the pulps.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 35 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).