Friends Chet, Walt and Diane are united in a wild ride to the Dark Moon—and they go as prisoners of their deadly enemy Schwartzmann.
The Dark Moon is a nearly invisible planet which suddenly appeared close enough to Earth to cause tidelwaves, 'a circle, marked only by the absence of star-points and by the halo of violet glow that edged it about.'
Our two intrepid heroes had already been there before. It takes a good pilot to land a spaceship there. Fortunately, Chet Bullard is a 'Master Pilot of the World' no less.
It seems like a singularly nasty place to me, with zombified ape-men, vampiric birds, hostile plants, noxious gases, then worst of all 'a pit that held something inhumanly horrible—an abomination unto all gods of decency and right.'.
However, Bullard and his pall Walt Harkness want to go back for some reason. This though do, only as prisoners to a shouty German megalomaniac named Schwartzmann who barks "Gott im Himmel!" at every opportunity, yet somehow does better with the natives than the good guys manage.
I no doubt would have loved it back in 1931 if I had picked up a copy ofAmazing Stories magazine, but this type of story was soon surpassed in the arrival of science fiction's Golden Age.
Our two intrepid heroes had already been there before. It takes a good pilot to land a spaceship there. Fortunately, Chet Bullard is a 'Master Pilot of the World' no less.
It seems like a singularly nasty place to me, with zombified ape-men, vampiric birds, hostile plants, noxious gases, then worst of all 'a pit that held something inhumanly horrible—an abomination unto all gods of decency and right.'.
However, Bullard and his pall Walt Harkness want to go back for some reason. This though do, only as prisoners to a shouty German megalomaniac named Schwartzmann who barks "Gott im Himmel!" at every opportunity, yet somehow does better with the natives than the good guys manage.
I no doubt would have loved it back in 1931 if I had picked up a copy ofAmazing Stories magazine, but this type of story was soon surpassed in the arrival of science fiction's Golden Age.
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