The Lost Tribes of Venus

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The Lost Tribes of Venus

by Erik Fennel

EN·~2 hours

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Description

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.

Details

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

2020-12-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

EF

Erik Fennel

A little-known pulp-era science fiction writer, remembered for fast-moving planetary adventures and stories first published in the 1940s and 1950s. His work still turns up in modern reprints and public-domain collections, giving new listeners an easy way into vintage space opera.

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