Manly Wade Wellman 1 hr 14 min read

Strapped in his hammock beyond the reach of gravity, Planter gazes out at the cold, watchful stars, the familiar constellations of Earth turned strange, as he plunges toward a Venus in chains.

Manly Wade Wellman's 1942 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of interplanetary peril and liberation, where an Earthman confronts tyranny on a subjugated Venus, in the wonder-and-action style of the classic space-adventure magazines from a versatile master of the pulps.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 14 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Winfield Scott Hoskins