Raymond F. Jones 1 hr 26 min read

'Beware the Firebird!' the dying giant Thymar Ormondy gasps to his son Nathan, on the wet floor of a Venusian cave. 'She'll kill a thousand men for every one of the Seven Jewels of Chamar.'

Raymond F. Jones's 1946 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of a deadly quest on Venus. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn where a son takes up his murdered father's cause against the ruthless Firebird, amid the eternal rains and hidden treasures of a jungle Venus.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 26 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).