Forbidden Planet Author:W.J. Stuart ALTAIR 4 — They were experienced space explorers. They'd sweated in the jungles of Venus and tasted the dust of dead planets. But nothing prepared them for Altair 4. — It was a paradise—sure. A topsy-turvy Garden of Eden—with green moonlight, golden grass . . . and the astonishing girl, Altaira. — But there was horror behind the beauty. There was ... more »non-human intelligence at work—and then there was the sudden, shrieking, agonizing death . . .« less