Edgar Rice Burroughs 3 hr 39 min read

Bound for Mars but hurled by miscalculation to cloud-wrapped Venus, Carson Napier parachutes into a world of giant trees, warring nations, sky-pirates, and the incomparable princess Duare.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1934 novel launches his Venus (Amtor) series with a rousing planetary romance. Colorful, breathless, imaginative. Read it for the start of a beloved sword-and-planet saga, all exotic wonder, daring rescues, and adventure on the shrouded second planet.

In its time

Published in 1934, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

3 hr 39 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Roy G. Krenkel