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The Planet of Dread, by R F Starzl

The Planet of Dread, by R F Starzl

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A blunder by a stock clerk meant that Mark Forepaugh and his servant, Gunga, were stranded on Inra without power until the relief ship arrived. But they couldn't stay in an unpowered trading station; they had to venture out and get to the Mountains of Perdition where they had a better chance of being rescued. That trip, however, necessitated a trip through the hostile jungle of Inra...

"The Planet of Dread" appeared in "Astounding Stories of Super-Science," August 1930, pages 147 - 157.

Roman Frederick Starzl (1899–1976) was an American writer. He, and earlier, his father (John V Starzl), owned the Le Mars Globe-Post newspaper of Le Mars, Iowa.

His writing is largely forgotten now, but he was called a "master" by the pioneer of space opera E E "Doc" Smith. Starzl's Interplanetary Flying Patrol, in "The Hornets of Space," may have influenced Smith's Galactic Patrol.

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