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LIFE–raw, primordial–teemed on this young world: on its land, beneath its seas and in its air. Prehistoric
life forms, similar to those which once flourished in distant Earth–vicious, voracious… Venusian.



Into this raw young world plunges Perry Rhodan and his men of war in a race against time–Thora Queen
of Arkon, is in hideous danger…




THE VENUS TRAP




1/ Trouble On Venus



LIFE—raw, primordial—teemed on the young world: on its land, beneath its seas and in its air.
Prehistoric life forms, not dissimilar to those which once flourished on distant, early Earth—vicious,
voracious but… Venusian.

Venus, ‘the evening star,’ second from the sun, a hothouse of horrendous creatures: airborne,
landlubbing, oceanic.

Three Terranians found themselves on the surface of a Venusian sea: Perry Rhodan, John Marshall and
Son Okura. Rhodan, the leader; Marshall, the esper, reader of minds; Okura the emfer, perceptor of
electromagnetic frequency wavelengths.

About the trio’s boat the water gurgled sluggishly. It seemed to be thicker than on Earth, and so it was.
A hand submerged in it emerged with a slimy coat for the water was so full of algae, single cells and other
minute life forms that it acted like a colloidal solution.

The boat ploughed steadily through the impeding waves which were the last reminder of the terrible
twilight storm that had swept over the flatland and the 200-mile-wide ocean channel more than eight
hours before.

The sturdy little generator hummed monotonously, threatening to hypnotise heavy eyelids, lull weary men
to sleep.

But to the coaxing arms of Morpheus they dared not submit—none of them! For more than a Terrestrial
day they hadn’t dared a wink. It had been difficult to stay awake in the darkness, especially for Perry
with an unhealed wound paining his shoulder.

Perry Rhodan, President of the New Power, had come to Venus with the intention of restoring order
once again but, due to a chain of calamitous circumstances, had been cast with two companions almost
helplessly into the wilderness.
 At the present time he was far from achieving his goal. There were still 180 miles of water to be crossed