
On the mist‑shrouded world of Venus, where tangled swamps meet restless seas, a routine cargo run turns catastrophic when a meteorite slams into the ship’s jet room. The impact overloads the positronic accelerator, igniting a blaze that leaves a crew member dead and the vessel’s propulsion system on the brink of failure. Captain Reno and his crew scramble to replace the damaged accelerator, racing against a tightening countdown before the ship can safely resume its course.
Among the hurried hands is Barry Barr, an Earth‑born technician who has undergone a radical transformation to survive the alien environment. When the emergency suit must be vented into the hostile atmosphere to clear a stray piece of metal, he confronts the lethal Sigma radiation that haunts Venus’s skies. With the ship’s fate hanging in the balance, Barry’s skill and resolve become the thin line between disaster and a chance to uncover the planet’s hidden, enigmatic tribes.
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (128K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Dec 1, 2020
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
A pulp-era science fiction writer whose stories appeared in magazines like Planet Stories, this author remains something of a mystery today. The surviving record points to a small body of adventurous short fiction published from the late 1940s into the 1950s.
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