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    The War of the Wenuses
    The War of the Wenuses
    The War of the Wenuses
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    The War of the Wenuses

    By Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves and E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The War of the Wenuses - Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The War of the Wenuses, by C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The War of the Wenuses

      Author: C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas

      Release Date: January 13, 2005 [eBook #14678]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WAR OF THE WENUSES***

      E-text prepared by David Starner, Edna Badalian, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      THE WAR OF THE WENUSES

      by

      C. L. GRAVES AND E. V. LUCAS

      Reprint of the 1898 ed. published by J. W. Arrowsmith

      Bristol, Eng.

      [Illustration: PORTRAIT OF THE INVISIBLE AUTHOR.

      (From a Negative by THE SPECTROSCOPIC Co.)]

      THE WAR OF THE WENUSES

      Translated from the Artesian of H. G. Pozzuoli

      Author of The Treadmill, The Isthmus of Dr. Day, The Vanishing

      Lady, etc., etc.

      by

      C. L. GRAVES AND E. V. LUCAS

      Not novels and poetry swipes, but ideas, science, books The Artilleryman

      [Illustration: Arrowsmith colophon]

      TO

      H. G. WELLS

      THIS OUTRAGE ON A FASCINATING AND CONVINCING ROMANCE

      CONTENTS

      BOOK I.—The Coming of the Wenuses.

      Chapter

      I. JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER

      II. THE FALLING STAR

      III. THE CRINOLINE EXPANDS

      IV. HOW I REACHED HOME

      BOOK II.—London Under the Wenuses.

      I. THE DEATH OF THE EXAMINER

      II. THE MAN AT UXBRIDGE ROAD

      III. THE TEA-TRAY IN WESTBOURNE GROVE

      IV. WRECKAGE

      V. BUBBLES

      APPENDIX A

      APPENDIX B

      BOOK I.

      The Coming of the Wenuses.

      The Coming of the Wenuses.

      * * * * *

      I.

      JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER.

      No one would have believed in the first years of the twentieth century that men and modistes on this planet were being watched by intelligences greater than woman's and yet as ambitious as her own. With infinite complacency maids and matrons went to and fro over London, serene in the assurance of their empire over man. It is possible that the mysticetus does the same. Not one of them gave a thought to Wenus as a source of danger, or thought of it only to dismiss the idea of active rivalry upon it as impossible or improbable. Yet across the gulf of space astral women, with eyes that are to the eyes of English women as diamonds are to boot-buttons, astral women, with hearts vast and warm and sympathetic, were regarding Butterick's with envy, Peter Robinson's with jealousy, and Whiteley's with insatiable yearning, and slowly and surely maturing their plans for a grand inter-stellar campaign.

      The pale pink planet Wenus, as I need hardly inform the sober reader, revolves round the sun at a mean distance of [character: Venus sigil] vermillion miles. More than that, as has been proved by the recent observations of Puits of Paris, its orbit is steadily but surely advancing sunward. That is to say, it is rapidly becoming too hot for clothes to be worn at all; and this, to the Wenuses, was so alarming a prospect that the immediate problem of life became the discovery of new quarters notable for a gentler climate and more copious fashions. The last stage of struggle-for-dress, which is to us still remote, had embellished their charms, heightened their heels and enlarged their hearts. Moreover, the population of Wenus consisted exclusively of Invisible Men—and the Wenuses were about tired of it. Let us, however, not judge them too harshly. Remember what ruthless havoc our own species has wrought, not only on animals such as the Moa and the Maori, but upon its own inferior races such as the Wanishing Lady and the Dodo Bensonii.

      The Wenuses seem to have calculated their descent with quite un-feminine accuracy. Had our instruments permitted it, we might have witnessed their preparations. Similarly pigs, had they wings, might fly. Men like Quellen of Dresden watched the pale pink planet—it is odd, by the way, that for countless centuries Wenus has been the star of Eve—evening by evening growing alternately paler and pinker than a literary agent, but failed to interpret the extraordinary phenomena, resembling a series of powder puffs, which he observed issuing from the cardiac penumbra on

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