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Lost on Venus

78.6% complete
1935
66,673
1993
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Foreword
1 - The Seven Doors
2 - Coiled Fury
3 - The Noose
4 - "Open the Gates!"
5 - Cannibals
6 - Fire
7 - Bull Against Lion
8 - Down the Escarpment
9 - The Gloomy Castle
10 - The Girl in the Tower
11 - The Pygmies
12 - The Last Second
13 - To Live or Die
14 - Havatoo
15 - The Judgment
16 - Attack in the Night
17 - City of the Dead
18 - A Surprise
19 - In Hiding
20 - Under Suspicion
21 - Flight
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Leading my captors, but taking no part in the capture, were Moosko, the Ongyan, and Vilor, the Thorist spy, who had together conceived and carried out the abduction of Duare from aboard the Sofal.
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I could have held her thus forever, as our marvelous plane raced onwards toward Vepaja and home.
Comments may contain spoilers
First published as a seven-part serial in Argosy magazine, starting on March 4, 1933. Also serialized in the British magazine The Passing Show in ten parts, starting on December 2, 1933.
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Duare, who had been watching my face intently, must have read the truth in the despair of my expression.

“You do not know where the sea lies?” she asked.

I shook my head. “No.”

“Then we are lost?”

“I am afraid so. I am sorry, Duare; I was so sure that we would find the Sofal and that you would soon be out of danger. It is all my fault, the fault of my stupidity and ignorance.”

“Do not say that; no one could have known the direction he was going during the darkness of last night. Perhaps we shall find the sea yet.”

“Even if we could, I am afraid that it will be too late to insure your safety.”

“What do you mean—that the Sofal will be gone?” she asked.

“There is that danger, of course; but what I most fear is that we may be recaptured by the Thorists. They will certainly search along the coast for us in the locality where they found us yesterday. They are not so stupid as not to guess that we will try to reach the Sofal.”

“If we can find the ocean, we might hide from them,” she suggested, “until they tire of the search and return to Kapdor; then, if the Sofal is still there, we may yet be saved.”

“And if not, what?” I asked. “Do you know anything about Noobol? Is there not some likelihood that we may find a friendly people somewhere in this land who will aid us to reach Vepaja again?”

She shook her head. “I know little about Noobol,” she replied, “but what little I have heard is not good. It is a sparsely settled land reaching, it is supposed, far into Strabol, the hot country, where no man may live. It is filled with wild beasts and savage tribes. There are scattered settlements along the coast, but most of these have been captured or reduced by the Thorists; the others, of course, would be equally dangerous, for the inhabitants would consider all strangers as enemies.”

“The outlook is not bright,” I admitted, “but we will not give up; we will find a way.”

“If any man can, I am sure that it is you,” she said.

Praise from Duare was sweet. In all the time that I had known her she had said only one other kind thing to me, and later she had retracted that.

“I could work miracles if only you loved me, Duare.”

She straightened haughtily. “You will not speak of that,” she said.

“Why do you hate me, Duare, who have given you only love?” I demanded.

 

Added: 29-Dec-2002
Last Updated: 18-Jun-2022

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Second in the Venus series. Carson Napier begins this episode in the Room of the Seven Doors. He can leave any time he wants, but six of the seven doors lead to hideous deaths; only one is the door of life. After navigating his way out of this logic puzzle, Carson continues his quest to rescue the planet’s fairest princess. He pursues this with singlemindedness, even though more terrible dagners lie ahead; even though the princess wishes neither his help or his affection; even though her people will execute him if he enters their country! Such is the honor of an Earthman’s pledge.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs  
Birth: 01 Sep 1875 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Death: 19 Mar 1950 Encino, California, USA

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