Harl Vincent was born in Buffalo, NY in 1893. A mechanical engineer and the author of some 20 novels and 60+ short stories in the sci-fi genre, Vincent passed away in 1968, at the age of 74.
Venus Liberated by Harl Vincent
Have you ever thought to yourself, while reading a particularly good book, “What a fantastic movie this novel would make!”? Of course you have … it’s a practically inevitable occurrence. And it is one that has just happened to me again, while reading Harl Vincent’s 1929 offering Venus Liberated. Indeed, featuring as it does space travel, a visit to two nearby worlds, weapons and assorted gadgets of superscience, romance, warfare, and some truly hissable and hideous aliens, the book would have been a natural,
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