Five Against Venus

1952

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Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company

Philip Latham was the pseudonym for US astronomer Robert Shirley Richardson (1902-1981), who was one of the first to use ‘contraterrene’ to describe antimatter (Astounding, December 1941). Under the name Latham he wrote Five Against Venus (1952) a SF novel for children. He also scripted a series called Captain Video. The cover artwork is by Virgil Finlay.