LOST ON VENUS
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
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New York 36, N.Y.
This Ace edition follows the text of the
original magazine novel first published in 1933.
Cover art and title-page illustration
by Frank Frazetta.
Other Interplanetary Novels
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
in Ace Editions:
THE MOON MAID (F-157)
THE MOON MEN (F-159)
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (F-168)
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS (F-170)
THE MASTERMIND OF MARS (F-181)
A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS (F-190)
PIRATES OF VENUS (F-179)
Printed in U.S.A.
Any patriotic citizen can give you the name of the astronaut commonlybelieved to be the first American in space, and inform you of theexact time and date of liftoff from the pad at Cape Canaveral; butany student of Burroughs knows that the first American in space was atow-headed, blue-eyed, young man named Carson Napier.
Napier, a former British subject, was an American by choice. He did notlift off from a Cape Canaveral rocket pad, but was blasted into theheavens in a rocket torpedo of his own design—more than thirty yearsago!
This "Wrong-way" Corrigan of space was attempting to reach Mars butlanded on Venus instead. There he encountered races primitively bestialand super-scientifically advanced. There he battled with strange beastsand giant insects. There he lost his heart to Duare, daughter of aVepajan jong, whose beauty could mean death to the beholder.
Carson Napier's amazing adventures on Amtor are recorded in fourvolumes, of which this is the second, as communicated directly from himto Edgar Rice Burroughs, through the marvelous medium of telepathy.
Impossible? Science-fiction fantasy? You don't believe it? Well, if youcannot believe in the reality of the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughsafter reading the first few pages of this book, then there is no Tarzanof the Apes! For it is the unique style of making the impossibleplausible that made Edgar Rice Burroughs the most popular and bestselling author in the world.
Vernell Coriell
Founder, The Burroughs Bibliophiles
THE PERILS OF AMTOR
When Carson Napier, Californian, pierced the mist-laden cloudblanket that shrouded the mysterious planet Venus, he embarked onan unparalleled adventure. For this planet was peopled by severalantagonistic civilizations—none of whom believed his fantastic tale ofthe far-distant Earth he had come from. To them he was just a spy fromanother Venusan city—deserving only death.
And so, Carson traveled over perilous mountains and through forests,inhabited by creatures more terrifying than any nightmare, in search ofthe lovely princess Duare, who had been snatched from his arms.
A tale of adventure on another world from the pen of the master—EdgarRice Burroughs.
LOST ON VENUS
FOREWORD
When Carson Napier left my office to fly to Guadalupe Island and takeoff for Mars in the giant rocket that he had constructed there for thatpurpose, I was positive that I should never see him again in the f