Robert Emmett McDowell 1 hr 33 min read

A hooded man detaches from the shadows of a silent Venusian plantation house, slug gun under his coat, as the cold green phosphorescence of alien vegetation streams through the windows.

Robert Emmett McDowell's 1946 story is a vivid, atmospheric space-opera adventure of intrigue on Venus. Colorful, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a moody pulp yarn where a night-time infiltration of a jungle-world plantation sets a rousing tale of danger and mystery in motion beneath the eerie glow of Venus.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 33 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

C. A. Murphy