Carl Selwyn 25 min read

On foggy, muddy Venus, otter-trapper Charlie Mead and ex-prospector Flip Miller settle in for a forty-day drunk, Charlie for the fun of it, Flip for reasons of his own.

Carl Selwyn's 1940 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn set on a rain-soaked frontier Venus, where two hard-bitten drifters' bender turns into something more, in the boozy, wonder-and-peril style of the classic space-adventure magazines, rich with the flavor of the pulps' cloudy Venus.

In its time

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

Reading it

25 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Don Lynch