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Death on Venus Ben Bova
Illustration by Vincent Di Fate
My name is Van Humphries. I will be the first human
being to reach the hell-hot surface of the planet Venus, or
I will die in the attempt.
My father gave me no other choice.
All my life my father had looked down on me; despised
me and my illness, sneeringly called me "Runt." Sick from
birth, I’d been born with a form of pernicious anemia
because of my mother’s drug addiction. She had died
giving birth to me, and my father blamed me for her
death. He claimed she was the only woman he had ever
truly loved, and I had killed her.
Father--Martin Humphries--lived in Selene City on the Moon where he played his chosen roles of
interplanetary tycoon; megabillionaire; hell-raising, womanizing, ruthless corrupt giant of industry;
founder and head of Humphries Space Systems, Inc.
My older brother, Alex, was the apple of Father’s eye. But three years ago Alex was killed on the first
human mission to Venus. His ship entered the clouds that totally cover our sister planet, but never
came out again.
"It should’ve been you, Runt!" Father howled when we got the news. "It should’ve been you who died,
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