
In the tangled, irradiated jungles of Venus, a ruthless wilderness known as the Tihar Forest hides secrets that have baffled colonists for centuries. When a wealthy Martian’s daughter learns that her sister, presumed dead after a crash, might still be alive deep within that nightmarish thicket, she demands an expedition—despite the planet’s reputation for swallowing whole crews.
She turns to a hardened director of Venusian Exports and a notorious convict who’s the only one to have survived the forest’s mutating horrors. Together they must assemble a reluctant team, balance corporate politics, and confront a landscape where every plant and creature is a twisted relic of a long‑ago atomic cataclysm. As the mission gears up, the stakes are clear: rescue a lost sibling or confront a terror that could cost them all their lives.
Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (74K 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
2020-12-11
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1911–1974
A museum curator by profession and a pulp storyteller by passion, he brought a thoughtful, literary touch to science fiction and fantasy magazines of the 1940s and 1950s. His work often mixed imagination with psychology, myth, and a quietly unsettling sense of wonder.
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