Henry Kuttner 1 hr 1 min read

Earth investigator Jerry Vanning, headache-plagued after a hair-raising landing through Venus's pea-soup atmosphere, hunts a fugitive on a planet the local consul swears only damn fools ever visit.

Henry Kuttner's 1942 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of a manhunt on a hostile, storm-wracked Venus that unfolds into something far stranger, in the wonder-and-peril 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 1 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Alexander Leydenfrost