Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Pirates of Venus

I Carson Napier 5 II Off for Mars 15 III Rushing Toward Venus 26 IV To the House of the King 42 V The Girl in the Garden 53 VI Gathering Tarel 67 VII By Kamlot’s Grave 79 VIII On Board the _Sofal_ 91 IX Soldiers of Liberty 102 X Mutiny 111 XI Duare 123 XII “A Ship!” 132 XIII C...

Chapters

1. Part 1

I Carson Napier 5 II Off for Mars 15 III Rushing Toward Venus 26 IV To the House of the King 42 V The Girl in the Garden 53 VI Gathering Tarel 67 VII By Kamlot’s Grave 79 VIII O...

2. Part 2

He was grateful, of course, but still he could not hide his disappointment in not being allowed to accompany me, which was evidenced by an invidious comparison he drew between t...

3. Part 3

It was now becoming difficult to view the planet through the side port, as she moved steadily closer and closer to our path. I went to the periscope—she was gliding majestically...

4. Part 4

The other men had entered and closed the door, which they fastened by a device that was not apparent to me at the time; then one of them pointed to a chair and motioned me to be...

5. Part 5

“Things which equal the same thing equal each other, do they not? Therefore, the inner and outer boundaries of Trabol are of equal length, and this is true because of the truth...

6. Part 6

There was that in his manner which precluded questions, and I did not pursue the subject further. Here was a mystery, the first suggestion of mystery that I had encountered in t...

7. Part 7

This was more exciting than picking cotton in Imperial Valley, though as yet I did not know just what there was to be excited about. Kamlot did not appear excited; he was very c...

8. Part 8

I asked him if he had ever been up there, and he said he had climbed, he believed, to the top of the tallest tree, but that he had nearly frozen to death in the attempt. “We get...

9. Part 9

“The officers have keys to the guns they command,” he replied. “In the captain’s cabin are keys to all the guns, and he carries a master key that will unlock any of them. At lea...

10. Part 10

I had been considerably worried at the time we were being searched, for fear that the key to the armory would be discovered on Kiron, but it had not been, and later he told me t...

11. Part 11

Behind us the grappling hooks were thrown over the rail of the _Sovong_. Every man had been instructed as to the part he was to play. Leaving Kamlot in command on the main deck,...

12. Part 12

“In my world,” I told him, “men are killed for saying that they do _not_ intend marrying some girl.” I had been sitting at the desk in my cabin at the time that Kamlot had threa...

13. Part 13

“It is not his fault,” said Vilor, as the birdman rose to leave the cabin. “Moosko, strange as it may seem, had never seen an angan; and I fetched this fellow here merely to sat...

14. Part 14

At the summit I paused a moment to survey the surrounding country and get my bearings. Before me stretched a rolling table-land, tree-dotted and lush with grass, and beyond that...

15. Part 15

F-156 AT THE EARTH’S CORE The discovery of the inner world and adventures therein in a land that remained in the Stone Age! F-157 THE MOON MAID The spaceship Barsoom breaks into...