Lost on Venus F221

By Edgar R Burroughs

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000UDCL8Q
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: ACE BOOKS
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs' _Lost on Venus_ (_Argosy_, 1933; ERB, Inc., 1935) is the second of five books that Burroughs wrote about Venus (called "Amtor" by the natives) and of Carson Napier of Earth, who crash lands on Venus, more or less by accident. (He was originally headed for Mars.) The novel was originally a seven-part serial in _Argosy_. The magazine illustrations were by Samuel Cahan. The first book illustrations were by J. Allen St. John. I am reviewing the Ace edition (1963) of _Lost on Venus_, with a lively cover by Frank Frazetta. The Ace edition follows the 1935 hardback edition fairly closely. Like its predecessor, _Pirates of Venus_, _Lost on Venus_ continues a series of capture-and-escape episodes starring Napier and princess Duare the Beautiful. It also continues its satire of pompous scientists and militaristic Russian Communists. Satiric targets in later novels would be fascist Nazis.