Chester S. Geier 18 min read

'Yes, I killed George Pearce,' the narrator confesses, the celebrated chemist and hero of the first Venus expedition, and, ordered by the police to explain, he must go back to the very beginning.

Chester S. Geier's 1947 story is a tense colonization and psi-powers tale. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping confessional mystery of the first expedition to Venus, where a killing that looks like murder conceals a stranger, darker truth about what the explorers found on the cloudy planet.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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