Venus Equilateral (collection)

For the longer series from which this collection of stories was drawn, see Venus Equilateral.

Venus Equilateral

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	George O. Smith
Illustrator	Sol Levin
Cover artist	George O. Smith
Language	English
Series	Venus Equilateral
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Prime Press
Publication date	1947
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	455 pp
OCLC	1289947

Venus Equilateral is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer George O. Smith. The stories belong to Smith's Venus Equilateral series. The collection was first published in 1947 by Prime Press in an edition of 3,000 copies. "Mad Holiday" was written for this collection. The other stories first appeared in the magazine Astounding.

Contents

• Introduction, by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• "QRM—Interplanetary"
• "Calling the Empress"
• "Recoil"
• "Off the Beam"
• "The Long Way"
• "Beam Pirate"
• "Firing Line"
• "Special Delivery"
• "Pandora’s Millions"
• "Mad Holiday"
• "The External Triangle"
• "Epilogue: Identity"

Sources

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 530.
• Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 400. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.

External links

• Venus Equilateral title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database