The Venus Belt

by L. Neil Smith

         How does a totally ethical culture conquer its own "final frontier"? A mysterious series of disappearances leads gumshoe Win Bear, assisted by Koko Featherstone-Haugh (a young female gorilla) and Lucy Kropotkin (a disgruntled murder victim temporarily housed in a robot body) to the asteroids, a super-villain with an all-too-familiar face, and a conspiracy stretching across whole universes.

New York: A Del Rey Book Published by Ballantine Books, 1980.

211 pages, mass-market paperback

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 80-66566

ISBN 0-345-28721-5

First Edition: January 1981

Cover painting by Darrell K. Sweet.

Illustration of Ceres Central by Chris Barbieri (vertical view).

Illustration of Ceres Central by Chris Barbieri (horizontal view).