Venus Warning a Novelette
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The year is 2086. A dozen astronauts fly to the cloudy planet, Venus, to explore it in heat-resistant spacesuits. Temperatures at that world's surface are hot enough to melt lead. What the explorers discover astounds the inhabitants of Earth and may well determine the survival of the human race.
John G. Bluck
John G. Bluck retired from NASA as a public affairs officer. Previously, he was the Chief of Imaging Technology at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Before that, he worked at NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, where he produced numerous NASA documentaries for television. Earlier in his career he was a broadcast engineer for the ABC radio network at WMAL-AM/FM, Washington, DC. At WMAL-TV (now WJLA-TV), in Washington he was a news film cameraman who covered local news, crime, sports, and politics including Watergate. In 1976 he was named the National Press Photographer's Association runner-up cameraman of the year in the Northeast. In addition, he was a member of the White House News Photographers’ Association. During the Vietnam War he was an Army journalist at Ft. Lewis, Washington.
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Venus Warning a Novelette - John G. Bluck
Venus Warning a Novelette
Copyright 2017 John G. Bluck
Published by John G. Bluck
Cover composite art created using a NASA JPL background image of Venus combined with a NASA Ames Research Center picture of the Vykukal space suit. Both source images are courtesy of NASA.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 -- The Struggle for Life
Chapter 2 -- The Lake
Chapter 3 -- Memories
Chapter 4 -- Beetle Attack
Chapter 5 -- Forward to the Lake
Chapter 6 -- The Mystery Figure
Chapter 7 -- Eye for an Eye
Chapter 8 -- Onward to Venus
Chapter 9 -- Venus Close-up
Chapter 10 - Dreams of Alien Life
Chapter 11 - The Descent Begins
Chapter 12 - Stormy Venus
Chapter 13 - Flights of the Suit Ships
Chapter 14 - The Surface
Chapter 15 - Search for the Lander
Chapter 16 - Venusian Surprise
Chapter 17 - Calm After the Storm
Chapter 18 - Aboard the Mother Ship
Chapter 19 - Houston Has a Solution
Chapter 20 - A Historic Discovery
Chapter 21 - The World in Awe
Chapter 22 - Astounding Discovery
Chapter 23 - The Message
Chapter 24 - The Circle of History
About the Author
Connect with John G. Bluck
Let the World Know What You Think
Acknowledgements
I am especially grateful to my wife, Sheryl, for giving me her opinion about this story and for correcting my grammatical and spelling errors.
Eloise Hamann and Kris Rogers, members of the California Writers Club, Tri-Valley Chapter, helped me a lot, providing me with ideas on how to improve this tale.
I hope I haven't omitted anyone. Any errors in this book are mine and mine alone. I hope my readers will enjoy Venus Warning, a Novelette.
Chapter 1 -- The Struggle for Life
Ruthless sunlight baked Figar as he lay on the burning hot mud. It was rapidly thickening and soon would turn hard. His lizard body was ill-suited for the abrupt change in climate that was underway.
Figar had stopped to rest by a jagged boulder. He drew his deadly dart pistol, and leaned back against the rock that protected him from enemies that had followed him.
Figar's head fell forward into a fleeting sleep for mere seconds. Suddenly there was a high whining as a swarm