Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MERCHANTS OF VENUS Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Charming, rougish (yet honest) tour guide Audree Walthers is engaged by a rich couple to visit (hopefully) untouched Heechee archeological sites on Venus, hoping to find artifacts.

(The Heechee were the inhabitants of the planet, but none are currently known to be alive, so their cities and habitats are considered "abandoned" and legally-salvageble!)

Things take an unexpected turn when Audree discovers his clients are, in fact, totally-broke and hope to cash in on Heechee artifacts he'll lead them to.
But would that mean cutting him out of their contracted profit-sharing deal...

...one way or another?

Sadly, DC's Graphic Novel Series ended before a sequel, based on Frederik Pohl's then-ongoing Heechee series, could be developed!

If you haven't read it, you should...because the Heechee aren't gone!

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Gateway Trip

Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee

by Frederik Pohl

(which reprints Merchants of Venus and adds nine new short stories all illustrated by the legendary Frank Kelly Freas!)

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MERCHANTS OF VENUS Part 3

When Last We Left Our Protagonists...

Charming, rougish (yet honest) tour guide Audree Walthers is engaged by a rich couple to visit (hopefully) untouched Heechee archeological sites on Venus, hoping to find artifacts.

(The Heechee were the inhabitants of the planet, but none are currently known to be alive, so their cities and habitats are considered "abandoned" and legally-salvageble!)
But, now that they're out checking out sites, things are about to take an unexpected turn...

So, much like our Don da Con, the "rich guy" isn't as rich as he claimed!

Will money truly be proven to be the root of all evil?

Betrayal?

Murder?

Mayhem?

Be Here
Next Wednesday
to Find Out in the Exciting Conclusion!

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Gold at the Starbow's End

(Anthology of Frederick Pohl's work featuring the novella "Merchants of Venus"!)

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MERCHANTS OF VENUS Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

Charming, rougish (yet honest) tour guide Audree Walthers is engaged by a rich couple to visit (hopefully) untouched Heechee archeological sites on Venus, hoping to find artifacts.

(The Heechee were the inhabitants of the planet, but none are currently known to be alive, so their cities and habitats are considered "abandoned" and legally-salvageble!)

After a couple of days of preparations, the expedition departs...

What will they find?

What might find them?

Be Here

Next Wednesday

to Find Out!

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Gold at the Starbow's End

(Anthology of Frederick Pohl's work featuring the novella "Merchants of Venus"!)

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MERCHANTS OF VENUS Part 1

What's it like to be a working stiff (albeit a charming and roguish one) in the far future?

You're about to find out in this graphic novel based on a novella by a multi-award-winning sci-fi writer!

To Be Continued...
Next Wednesday!

Adapted by the wife-husband team of Victoria Peterson and Neal McPheeters, this never-reprinted 1986 graphic novel could've been the first of a series since Pohl did several follow-up novels about the Heechee, but DC ended the graphic novel line shortly after this!

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Gold at the Starbow's End
(Anthology of Frederick Pohl's work featuring the novella "Merchants of Venus"!)