Author: Trevor HolcroftPublisher:
ISBN: 9781492112679
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Earth has received alien visitors. Viridians; survivors of the destruction of their home planet, they have traveled half way across the galaxy and are now stranded within the solar system. With their advanced technology they are now helping humans terraform and colonize Mars and Venus and once complete they will share the solar system with Earth.Central to these events is Colonel Benjamin J (Jack) Fortune and his new fiancé the brilliant professor Elisabeth Beacham. In a previous adventure they had both been instrumental in saving both the Viridian 'Arkship' and the Earth itself from destruction by rebels. New technologies, pioneered by the Viridian scientific genius The Princep, are leading to a new 'space age' and to Elisabeth's frustration many fear what the onset of the new science will bring.Jack Fortune is looking forward to a settled life with his new fiancé, the previous excitement of space exploration is losing its charms, but the pull of Venus and its remarkable transformation by the Viridians has drawn both himself and Elisabeth and also his crew to a take part in new exciting mission of exploration. Their expedition to Venus is meant to be a relaxed adventure but nothing can be expected to go to plan. An evil the human mind cannot resist lurks in the Venusian jungle.And free of Venus? Fortune and his crew face one more voyage into the unknown and one thing they could never have expected was that what they found there could ever come back to haunt them again...