Bryce Walton 21 min read

Joha, part Venusian, twines her translucent fingers through the sleeping Earthman's hair and smiles, but from her light green face, red eyes shine with a terrible hatred he never sees.

Bryce Walton's 1949 story is a vivid, atmospheric colonization and adventure tale of a poisonous Venus. Vivid, moody golden-age pulp. Read it for a lush jungle-world yarn charged with menace, where a man drifts through drugged green dreams, unaware of the deadly hate blazing beside him.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Herman B. Vestal