The Vanguard of Venus

Overview:

  • Title: The Vanguard of Venus
  • Author: Landell Barlett
  • Year: 1928
  • Publisher: Experimenter Publishing Company
  • Price: $0.00
  • Pages: 24
  • Binding: Pamphlet
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: The Vanguard of Venus
  • Notes: No price given. Cover says "Presented With the Compliments of Amazing Stories", suggesting that it was a giveaway.
    Author's name is as "Landell Bartlett" on the story itself, but as "Landell Barlett" on the cover and title page. Everett F. Bleiler's "Science Fiction - The Early Years" states that it was "distributed as a subscription premium for Amazing Stories". However, the coupon in Amazing Stories, September 1928 (page 557) explains that it's "absolutely free to all readers" as a means of amassing circulation information on copies bought from newsdealers--although "if you are a subscriber we will not discriminate against you."