We Run From the Hunted!

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We Run From the Hunted!

by Stephen Marlowe

EN·~28 minutes

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Description

A pair of down‑on‑their‑luck entrepreneurs run a fledgling hunting lodge on the wild, untamed plains of Venus. Gil and Harry spend their days juggling unpaid bills, outdated rifles, and the stubborn belief that “Venus on the Half‑Shell” will someday draw eager Earth‑bound big‑game hunters. Their cramped cabin doubles as office, bedroom, and storefront, and every sunrise brings the same desperate hope: a single paying customer could change everything.

When the grizzled former hunter Talbot Kramer arrives, he brings news of a mysterious creature called the Wompan and a battered swamp‑buggy that could be their only escape—or their only ticket to profit. The men must decide whether to cling to old‑world hunting traditions or adapt to the alien wilderness that surrounds them, all while the swamp‑filled landscape threatens to swallow their dreams whole.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~28 minutes (27K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2021-11-17

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Stephen Marlowe

Stephen Marlowe

1928–2008

Best known for fast-moving crime and science fiction, this versatile American writer published under several names and built a career that ranged from pulp magazines to acclaimed historical novels. His work includes the detective Chet Drum series and the prizewinning novel The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus.

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