The Red Peri

In the year 2180, the Solar System is at peace - except for the fearsome space pirates, of whom none is more feared than the mysterious, beautiful Red Peri, who terrorises the spaceways in the ship that takes her name. When the spaceship on which physicist Frank Keene is a passenger falls prey to the pirates, the scene is set for a showdown between him and Peri in her underground base on Pluto. And the dark and frozen planet has its own deadly inhabitants...

STANLEY GRAUMAN WEINBAUM's life was tragically cut short at the age of 33, less than two years after he had published his first and greatest science fiction story, "A Martian Odyssey", with its completely alien - yet still sympathetic - alien protagonist. Nevertheless, he managed to write four novels and dozens of short stories. Weinbaum was born on 4th April 1902, in Louisville, Kentucky and died of lung cancer on 14th December, 1935.

DR MIKE GOLDSMITH studied astrophysics at Keele University and has written over a hundred books and scientific papers. His "New Horizons to Pluto" is also published by Grammaticus.