Beyond Light: Tomorrow's Adventure in the Outer Void

by Nelson S. Bond

When a routine trip to Venus goes sideways, astrogation engineer Tim Mallory and his soon-to-be wife Dorothy Lane must rely on their cunning and on each other in order to escape a planet that seems intent on their destruction.

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 1940

About the author

Nelson Slade Bond was a writer, primarily of short stories, antiquarian bookseller, and playwright. His works included books, magazine articles, and scripts used in radio, for television and on the stage.

The 1998 recipient of the Nebula Author Emeritus award for lifetime achievement, Bond was a pioneer in early science fiction and fantasy. His published fiction is mainly short stories, most of which appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Many were published in Blue Book magazine, though Bond largely retired from fiction writing after the 1950s. He is noted for his "Lancelot Biggs" series of stories and for his "Meg the Priestess" tales, which introduced one of the first powerful female characters in science fiction.

Reviews

[Sara]

What silinet red choice
many basic tale but same in bet
love holdin hand pay to be togather
even bat or vampir of any plane cant stop breath the love
many water fault cant stop us
even yr old minded father of y
in venus or launa or earth
cant be just us
whit faces and blue fingers cant stop us
even minmom chance to survive
earthquick of our heart that our wether
in cave yr eyes my road candil
many can rescou us
just be us
even at start we have block black ending mind
its our road even than we frome tow stranger planet
but we have same stars
and moon and sun
that we r in love river go wildy betwen star

[Zvonimir · Rating 3 out of 5]

Might be a better movie than The Martian, with a couple of rewrites.