Leigh Brackett 48 min read

Lundy has flown the aero-space convertible alone so long that the bottom half of him is dead to the toes, Jackie Smith out cold beside him, Farrell screaming behind the cabin door.

Leigh Brackett's 1944 story is a taut, atmospheric horror-tinged space opera set in the murky skies of Venus. Vivid, gripping golden-age pulp. Read it for muscular early Brackett, a nightmare flight through the Venusian clouds, a maddening cargo, and a terror out of space that turns men's minds inside out.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Ronald Clyne