It's Full of Stars

“I reached the main landing on Venus, March 18, terrestrial time; VI, 9 of the planet’s calendar. Being put in the main group under Miller, I received my equipment — watch tuned to Venus’s slightly quicker rotation — and went through the usual mask drill. After two days I was pronounced fit for duty.”

In January of 1936 a young man named Kenneth Sterling shared a draft of a story with H.P. Lovecraft. The story was rewritten and published after Lovecraft’s death as In the Walls of Eryx in the Weird Tales of October 1939. This story is Lovecraft’s sole Interplanetary frontier story set in the future. It details an encounter of a prospector with the aborigines of the planet Venus.

Read story here or download it here.

Also avilable in the book The Tomb and Other Tales.