[Clare Foster 01] • Acid Sky

The exciting prequel to *BELOW MERCURY* ...

Venus - second planet from the Sun. In the crushing depths of its atmosphere lies a hellish, dimly-lit world of baked rock and furnace-like temperatures, forever hidden beneath thick clouds of sulphuric acid.

But high above the clouds, the sky is blue and clear, and a fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers circle endlessly on the high-altitude winds, providing a welcome staging post for crews on long space voyages.

For Clare Foster, a newly-promoted lieutenant in the US Astronautics Corps on her first tour of duty on board the carrier *Langley*, flying on Venus brings new challenges to be mastered. But the endless blue skies of Venus soon darken with an approaching menace, in which the terrifying fury of the planet will be unleashed ...

With spectacular vistas of imagination, original line drawings and a richly-detailed background, *ACID SKY* forms an exciting prequel to *BELOW MERCURY*, and forges new standards of realism for the SF thriller.