There were more Joes on Venus than you could shake a ray gun at. Perhaps there was method in Colonel Walsh’s madness – murder madness – when he ordered Major Polk to scan the planet for a guy named Joe.
Welcome back to Bobby D’s Reading Room where I invite you to stick around for a little bit, pull up a chair, join me on a journey to Venus, and let me read you a story.
Today’s story is a good one by S.A. Lombino… better known as Evan Hunter… better known still as Ed McBain. It’s A Planet Named Joe originally published in Planet Stories, November 1952.
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