Stories
Eleven of the thirteen Venus Equilateral stories were published in Astounding Science Fiction between 1942 and 1945. They were:
- "QRM—Interplanetary", October, 1942
- "Calling the Empress", June, 1943
- "Recoil", November, 1943
- "Lost Art", December, 1943
- "Off the Beam", February, 1944
- "The Long Way", April, 1944
- "Beam Pirate", October, 1944
- "Firing Line", December, 1944
- "Special Delivery", March, 1945
- "Pandora's Millions", June, 1945
- "Identity", November, 1945
Smith wrote a 12th story, "Mad Holiday", for the first book collection Venus Equilateral (1947) (which omitted "Lost Art" and "Identity"), and a 13th story, "The External Triangle", for Harry Harrison's 1973 anthology Astounding. All 13 stories were included in the 1976 Ballantine collection The Complete Venus Equilateral and the 1980 reprint published by its SF imprint Del Rey Books. Previously they had all appeared in the British 1975 Orbit Books publication in two parts Venus Equilateral: Volume One and Venus Equilateral: Volume Two.
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