LOST ON VENUS EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ACE BOOKS, INC. 1120 Avenue of the Americas New York 36, N.Y. This Ace edition follows the text of the original magazine novel first published in 1933. Cover art and title-page illustration by Frank Frazetta. Other Interplanetary Novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs in Ace Editions: THE MOON MAID (F-157) THE MOON MEN (F-159) THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (F-168) THE CHESSMEN OF MARS (F-170) THE MASTERMIND OF MARS (F-181) A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS (F-190) PIRATES OF VENUS (F-179) Printed in U.S.A. * * * * * Any patriotic citizen can give you the name of the astronaut commonly believed to be the first American in space, and inform you of the exact time and date of liftoff from the pad at Cape Canaveral; but any student of Burroughs knows that the first American in space was a tow-headed, blue-eyed, young man named Carson Napier. Napier, a former British subject, was an American by choice. He did not lift off from a Cape Canaveral rocket pad, but was blasted into the heavens in a rocket torpedo of his own design--more than thirty years ago! This "Wrong-way" Corrigan of space was attempting to reach Mars but landed on Venus instead. There he encountered races primitively bestial and super-scientifically advanced. There he battled with strange beasts and giant insects. There he lost his heart to Duare, daughter of a Vepajan _jong_, whose beauty could mean death to the beholder. Carson Napier's amazing adventures on _Amtor_ are recorded in four volumes, of which this is the second, as communicated directly from him to Edgar Rice Burroughs, through the marvelous medium of telepathy. Impossible? Science-fiction fantasy? You don't believe it? Well, if you cannot believe in the reality of the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs after reading the first few pages of this book, then there is no Tarzan of the Apes! For it is the unique style of making the impossible plausible that made Edgar Rice Burroughs the most popular and best selling author in the world. VERNELL CORIELL _Founder, The Burroughs Bibliophiles_ THE PERILS OF AMTOR