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Walk Up the Sky
| Author: | Robert Moore Williams |
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Avalon Books, 1962 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
This was the Venusian forest that dripped with rain, where the branches of the trees were twice as thick as the body of a man and life forms, though intelligent, were not human. One such life form, something like a cobra and something like a python, was an ally of Thal Parker, exiled Earthman, who had come to Venus on a mission of which he was far from sure.
That he wanted to get away from Earth, he knew. Earth was stifling, its government--one overwhelming bureaucracy--which strangled all independent invention and research in tons of red tape before permission could be obtained to undertake any scientific project whatever. Parker wanted to be free to work.
But there was more than this, much more.
It was tied in somehow with the mountain that Parker could see at times, and it had something to do with the strange things doctors had discovered about his brain.
There was a connection with the illegal devices he had built, and which had been stolen from him by Sam Helder, who hated him for some reason beyond Parker's understanding. And one of these devices was the means through which he communicated with the cobra-python and the titanic geths which were sure death to anyone who could not control them.
Parker was waiting-but for what?
A spaceship came out of the misty skies, and he knew it was going to crash. How did he know?
But just before that realization, he saw something which no Earthman had ever seen before, either here on Venus or on Earth: a bent, withered, twisted man walking in the sky. There was nothing beneath the gnome but empty air, and to aid him in his journey he leaned on a staff as gnarled and twisted as he was.
As he walked, there came the sound of drums.
All this had meaning. All this tied in with the riddle of why Thal Parker was here; and he had to solve that riddle, because more than his own life, and the life of the girl who had come to Venus to find him, depended on it.
Here is a strange, absorbing novel of tomorrow and a strange world where men could walk up the sky.
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