Message From Venus
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Description
R R Winterbotham wrote Message from Venus, printed in Comet for January 1941. Captain Paul Bonnet has praised the Venusians: when they set out to do a thing, nothing stops them. Major Rogers nearly court-martials him for it and roars that Earth will stop them. The sky is already dark with the ballooned bodies of the Venusian bipeds. They look like huge sausages, with something deadly about them.
At Outpost 53, twelve batteries pour atomic fire into the packed mass at the wire. Bonnet's anti-rocket gun blows a hole in the sky, and more bulging Venusians fill it at once. His ship, The Piece of Sky, lies ruined on the landing field. Its plates were dissolved by acid poured from the sky. Lieutenant Bill Riley wipes his face and calls it bailing a boat with a sieve.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |