The Princess of Venus was the most beautiful woman on Venus: Duare the last hope of Vepaja , daughter of its king. Now she was gone, a captive of the terrible Thorists, the sworn enemies of her people. No man born of Venus had the strength and cunning to rescue her:only Carson Napier, a man of Earth whose crashed ship had marooned on the mist-shrouded planet. For the sake of her life, and the hope of her love,he was willing to undergo the horror of the room of the Seven Doors, to walk in the City of the Dead: to face the thousand. deadly perils that spelled glorious adventure - Lost on Venus or death - for him and his beloved princess.