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Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations. Here’s a great space opera classic, “Venus Liberated” by one of the early masters of science fiction, Harl Vincent. This is a good old-fashioned, swashbuckling Interplanetary Adventure. Back in the early days of the pulps, magazines like Amazing Stories were jam-packed with dashing heroes, beautiful heroines, sinister aliens, revolutionary spacecraft, fantastic inventions of science, and outer space adventure—much of it in the spirit of Edgar Rice Burroughs. “Venus Liberated” is one such story—packed to the brim with interplanetary thrills. Its author, Harl Vincent, was one of Amazing Stories’ most popular writers back then, producing a plethora of swashbuckling short stories and novels for the magazine from 1928 through 1940. Some feel that “Venus Liberated” is his crowning work. It is indeed one of Vincent’s longest works, coming in at well over 80,000 words. So join heroes Ralph Prescott and Teddy Crowley as they venture to Venus in a new, cutting-edge spaceship, only to find themselves thrown into the middle of an interplanetary war—a war being waged against the helpless Venusians by a race of bulbous alien monsters whose home is an undetectable, distant black satellite.
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