Lost on Venus

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

LOST ON VENUS

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

ACE BOOKS, INC.
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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 commonly believed to be the first American in space, and inform you of the exact time and date of liftoff from the pad at Cape Canaveral; but any student of Burroughs knows that the first American in space was a tow-headed, blue-eyed, young man named Carson Napier.

Napier, a former British subject, was an American by choice. He did not lift off from a Cape Canaveral rocket pad, but was blasted into the heavens in a rocket torpedo of his own design—more than thirty years ago!

This "Wrong-way" Corrigan of space was attempting to reach Mars but landed on Venus instead. There he encountered races primitively bestial and super-scientifically advanced. There he battled with strange beasts and giant insects. There he lost his heart to Duare, daughter of a Vepajan jong, whose beauty could mean death to the beholder.

Carson Napier's amazing adventures on Amtor are recorded in four volumes, of which this is the second, as communicated directly from him to Edgar Rice Burroughs, through the marvelous medium of telepathy.

Impossible? Science-fiction fantasy? You don't believe it? Well, if you cannot believe in the reality of the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs after reading the first few pages of this book, then there is no Tarzan of the Apes! For it is the unique style of making the impossible plausible that made Edgar Rice Burroughs the most popular and best selling author in the world.

Vernell Coriell
Founder, The Burroughs Bibliophiles

THE PERILS OF AMTOR

When Carson Napier, Californian, pierced the mist-laden cloud blanket that shrouded the mysterious planet Venus, he embarked on an unparalleled adventure. For this planet was peopled by several antagonistic civilizations—none of whom believed his fantastic tale of the far-distant Earth he had come from. To them he was just a spy from another 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 of the lovely princess Duare, who had been snatched from his arms.

A tale of adventure on another world from the pen of the master—Edgar Rice Burroughs.

LOST ON VENUS