Red Venus

SUPERPOWERS CLASH on the DEADLIEST PLANET in the SOLAR SYSTEM ... Fog-shrouded Venus had refused to give up her mysteries, until the USSR sent their best and brightest on a top-secret scientific mission. Now the crew of the Krasnyy Sokol, led by gorgeous Cosmonaut Nadezhda Gura, must brave a hellish hothouse of jungle swampland crawling with monstrous life. It's Russians and rayguns against a death planet-and that's before the Americans show up. At 17K words, RED VENUS is a slam-bang trip on atomic-powered rockets, seen through the eyes of the East. Read it, tovarisch, and experience a part of the solar system that never was. _______ Praise for Garnett Elliott and RED "Garnett Elliott takes the Cold War into space in this rip-roaring planetary adventure tale that wouldn't be out of place in the browning pages of an old issue of Imagination or Imaginative Tales, two of my favorites from the '50s. Check it out!"
--Bill Crider
Anthony Award-winning author * * * "Garnett Elliott's RED VENUS is an exciting science fiction thriller that is at once pulpy yet high tech, crackles with sharp characterizations, a full-tilt pace, plenty of twisty surprises, and action galore ... Oh, and did I mention the hostile planet teeming with fierce, grotesque creatures who fly and crawl and ooze out of the muck to relentlessly stalk and strike at practically every turn? Buckle up tight and get ready for a maximum-G thrust into outer space adventure!"
--Wayne D. Dundee
Author of Fugitive Trail , By Blood Bound , and the Joe Hannibal series * * * "RED VENUS is a solid, old school pulp sci-fi story, equal parts adventure and intrigue. But it's also an insightful 'what if' narrative … a terrifically fast-paced alternate history with great characters and pacing. I loved it, and I'm pretty damn hard to please when it comes to sci-fi."
--Heath Lowrance
Author of Tales of a Weirder West