Hellflower
- Length
- 6 h 19 min
- Chapters
- 23
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- First published
- 1953
ONCE HE HAD BEEN A STAR MASTER--NOW HE DEALT IN SOUL-SHATTERING RUIN...
Farradyne had committed the one unpardonable error a Space Master could make. He didn't die along with the other 32 passengers when his ship smashed into the Bog on Venus.
They broke him--exiled him to the rotting fungus fields of Venus.
Now his only desire in existence was to return to the cool, gleaning sea of deep space.
And there was a way--only one. But he would have to become the vilest parasite in the universe--peddler of a poison that stripped the spirit, before it consumed the body... - Summary by back cover, Pyramid Books 1953 edition
Chapters
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