Illustrator O. G. Estes, Jr. Language English Publication date 1948 Originally published 1948 Page count 177 | Country United States Series Radio Man Media type Print (Hardback) Cover artist Jack Gaughan | |
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Publisher Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Roger Sherman Hoar books, Radio books, Science Fiction books | ||
The Radio Man is a science fiction novel by author Ralph Milne Farley. It is the first book in Farley's Radio Man series. It was first published in book form in 1948 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,000 copies. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Argosy.
Contents
Plot introduction
The novel concerns electrical engineer Myles Cabot, who disappears from his home in Boston while performing an experiment. He finds himself transported to the planet Venus where he is captured by the Formians, a race of ant-like creatures. After learning of the Cupians, a human-like race that is subservient to the Formians, Cabot escapes and falls in love with the Cupian princess Lilla. He goes on to introduce the Cupians to gunpowder and leads them in a revolt against their Formian masters.
Publication history
Wally Wood illustrated a 26-page adaptation of the story in a one-shot comic book entitled An Earth Man on Venus for Avon Periodicals in 1951. The story was reprinted in Strange Planets #11 from I.W. Enterprises in the early 1960s.