TRIPLANETARY by E. E. (Doc) SMITH

Author:E. E. (Doc) SMITH [E. E. (Doc) SMITH]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10 - WITHIN THE RED VEIL

Nevia, the home planet of the marauding space-ship, would have appeared peculiar indeed to Terrestrial senses. High in the deep red heavens a fervent blue sun poured down its flood of brilliant purplish light upon a world of water. Not a cloud was to be seen in that flaming sky, and through that dustless atmosphere the eye could see the horizon - a horizon three times as distant as the one to which we are accustomed - with a distinctness and clarity impossible in our Terra's dust-filled air. As that mighty sun dropped below the horizon the sky would fill suddenly with clouds and rain would fall violently and steadily until midnight. Then the clouds would vanish as suddenly as they had come into being, the torrential downpour would cease, and through that huge world's wonderfully transparent gaseous envelope the full glory of the firmament would be revealed. Not the firmament as we know it - for that hot blue sun and Nevia, her one planet-child, were light-years distant from Old Sol and his numerous brood - but a strange and glorious firmament containing few constellations familiar to Earthly eyes.

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