Planet Stories: The Enchantress of Venus by Leigh Brackett



Magazine: Planet Stories
Story: The Enchantress of Venus
Author: Leigh Brackett
Published: Fall 1949

Characters:
Eric John Stark
Zareth Malthor
The Lhari People
Zareth
Varra
Egil


The Bullet Points:

  • Stark journeys by boat to Shuruun a town of mercenaries and other cutthroats to find his missing friend Helvi. 
  • Stark finds himself captured by the tyrannical elites who rule Shuruun.
  • Stark finds Helvi.
  • Adventure and Romance ensue.

In Leigh Brackett's Venus everybody is a treacherous criminal, a degenerate addict, or some kind of deviant lunatic. It is a planet of noxious swamps, a place where you can't see the stars because of the heavy blanket of acrid gas. 

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