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The Interplanetary Hunter
Arthur K. Barnes
THE HOTHOUSE WORLD
* Chapter I. The Ark
* Chapter II. The Huntress
* Chapter III. The Murris
* Chapter IV. The Stolen Shrine
THE DUAL WORLD
* Chapter V. The Lost Continent
* Chapter VI. The Arkette
* Chapter VII. The Twin Race
* Chapter VIII. The Rotifer
SATELLITE FIVE
* Chapter IX. Cacus
* Chapter X. Flight of The Ark
* Chapter XI. Outpost of Forgotten Men
* Chapter XII. Re-birth
THE ENERGY EATERS
* Chapter XIII. Storm Over Gerry
* Chapter XIV. The Prometheans
* Chapter XV. Panic on the Moon
* Chapter XVI. The Ark Arrives
* Chapter XVII. Short Circuit
THE SEVEN SLEEPERS
* Chapter XVIII. Call of the Comet
* Chapter XIX. A Challenge for Gerry
* Chapter XX. Oil and Water
* Chapter XXI. Trapped -- Alive!
* Chapter XVII. Mad World
* Chapter XXIII. The Seven Sleepers
* Chapter XXIV. "Forget the Guns!"
* Chapter XXV. Double Double-Cross
Chapter I.
The Ark
Day again -- one hundred and seventy dragging hours of throttling, humid heat. An interminable period of monotony lived in the eternal mists, swirling with sluggish dankness, enervating, miasmatic, pulsant with the secret whisperings of mephitic lifeforms. That accounted for the dull existence of the Venusian trader, safe in the protection of his stilt-legged trading post twenty feet above the spongy earth -- but bored to the point of madness.