Keith Bennett 1 hr read

Dazed since the crash, Hague's brain replays the roar of blowing jets, one man among a crashed expedition marooned on a deadly Venus, with a long trek ahead.

Keith Bennett's 1950 Planet Stories tale is a rousing, atmospheric colonization space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a stirring pulp epic of a crashed expedition's desperate trek across a deadly Venus, a tale of courage and sacrifice told in the grand heroic register.

In its time

Published in 1950, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Al McWilliams