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Entry updated 21 September 2026. Tagged: Author.

(?   -    ) Author known only for the melodramatic and memorably titled adventure novella The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears (Spring 1950 Planet Stories; 2021 ebook), set on the planet Venus. To reach the safety of this world's only human base, the "rocketeer" crew of a crashed Spaceship must trek 500 miles through the "dark, unexplored, steaming Hell that is Venusian rainforest", whose perils include giant Spiders, venomous snakes, Dinosaur-like reptiles and hostile Alien lizard-men. There are heavy losses but some survivors reach the goal, still singing their bawdy marching song whose first line provides the title and which soon afterwards becomes unprintable (see Swearing). [DRL]

Keith Bennett

works

• The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2021) [ebook: first appeared Spring 1950 Planet Stories: na/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Gutenberg

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive