Neil R. Jones 37 min read

Interplanetary commerce, when it comes, will be fraught with every danger of pioneering, terrible climates, strange beasts and plants, and perhaps desperate, greedy men. So it proves on Venus.

Neil R. Jones's 1932 story is a vivid space-opera adventure of castaways on a hostile Venus. Atmospheric, inventive golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing early tale of survival on a jungle world, with novel scientific weapons and a smashing finish, from a prolific pioneer of the pulps.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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