Venus was civilized ... so the Universe thought! But deep in its midnight caverns ... beyond light, beyond the wildest imaginings of an ordered System ... dwelt Horror. They stood in the _Orestes'_ tiny observation turret, Mallory's defiant arm still tight about the slim and lovely girl, just exactly as bull-voiced Captain Lane had found them. The shimmering reflection of the planet Venus, only a few thousand miles ahead, bathed the trim, hard-jawed man and the softly pretty girl in a gentle glow, but it failed to soothe the grizzled space ship skipper.…
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