Angels in the Wilderness
Five Against Venus (Winston Science Fiction, volume 3)
By Philip Latham
22 Jul, 2018
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
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Philip Latham’s 1952 Five Against Venus was the third novel published in Winston’s SF line.
Although a member of his high school’s Space Club, sixteen-year-old Bruce Robinson has never been to space himself. His father, Mr. Robinson, is cheerful, endlessly optimistic, and consistently unsuccessful. His family lives in genteel poverty on Pico street. An expensive trip to the Moon … not gonna happen.
This changes when Mr. Robinson is hired as Tycho City’s new public relations manager. Tycho City as in Tycho Crater as in ON THE MOON. The family will become comparatively well-to-do and they will get to live on the Moon!
That’s the plan, anyway. The reality is different.
(spoilers)