[PW] Kid's SF book

[Dana Dalrymple]

If it's not the Edgar Rice Burroughs _Lost on Venus_ or _Pirates of
Venus_, it may be Australian Mary (M.E.) Patchett's 1954 juvenile
science fiction book, _Lost on Venus : the thrilling story of two boys
who land on the planet and explore a fantastic world_ (AKA _Flight to
the Misty Planet_).  Here are basic descriptions - from the Google Books
description - "Two young space trainees are chosen to take a test flight
over Venus, but their rocket crashes and they encounter dangerous alien
wildlife in their struggle to survive until they are rescued," and from
a preview of _A Companion to Science Fiction_ - "Her Lost on Venus
(1954) might easily have been set in darkest Africa, with the names
changed."  Here's a related cover by the same author -
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/m-e-patchett/venus-project.htm.

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Dana Dalrymple
Managing Librarian
Spokane Public Library
Read. Learn. Discover.


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Ivan Van Laningham
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:58 PM
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Subject: [PW] Kid's SF book

Hi All--
For me (as usual).  I was probably under 10 when I read this book, so
the
date is very likely pre-1958.

It had a light green or yellow cover. ;-)  (The one I read had no dust
jacket.)  It took place on Venus; I'm pretty sure that most of the
planet
was supposed to be uninhabitable, except for a small area--a jungle, a
valley, something like that--which had a cave in which a giant
serpent-like
monster lived.  The book was illustrated with line drawings.  No idea
who
the author was or anything else.

Metta,
Ivan
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