''Escape on Venus'' is a
science fantasy
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novel by American writer
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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, the fourth book in the
Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series"). It consists of four interconnected stories published in ''Fantastic Adventures'' between 1941 and 1942: "Slaves of the Fish Men", "Goddess of Fire", "The Living Dead," and "War on Venus". A collected edition of these stories was published in 1946.
Copyright
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for this story has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the
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.
Original stories
*"Slaves of the Fish Men", March 1941
*"Goddess of Fire", July 1941
*"The Living Dead", November 1941
*"War on Venus", March 1942
External links
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ERBzine C.H.A.S.E.R ENCYCLOPEDIA entry for ''Escape on Venus''
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1946 short story collections
1946 fantasy novels
1946 science fiction novels
American fantasy novels
American science fiction novels
Fantasy short story collections
Science fiction short story collections
Short story collections by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Venus novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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