Bryce Walton 13 min read

In the warm slime of a Venusian swamp, an ancient alien stirs from its long sleep as strange radiations pierce its brain, the confused, terrified mind of a being from a far world called Earth.

Bryce Walton's 1946 story is a vivid, strange colonization and adventure tale told partly from an alien's point of view. Atmospheric, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for an unusual Venus story where a monstrous swamp-dweller and a stranded Earthwoman meet across an almost unbridgeable gulf of mind.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

13 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

H. W. Kiemle