Nelson S. Bond 34 min read

A ship's captain finds his daughter in the arms of a crewman just outside Venus, and that's the least of the trouble waiting on the cloud-world.

Nelson S. Bond's 1940 story opens with Mallory's defiant engagement announcement enraging Captain Lane aboard the Orestes, before plunging toward a lost-world adventure on Venus. Colorful, fast-moving golden-age space opera with romance and peril intertwined. Read it for spirited pulp adventure on the cloud-veiled Venus of the 1940s magazines.

In its time

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

Reading it

34 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Leo Morey