Hellflower
Author: first_name: George O.
last_name: Smith
Language: English
Year: 1953

ONCE HE HAD BEEN A STAR MASTER--NOW HE DEALT IN SOUL-SHATTERING RUIN...

Farradyne had committed the one unpardonable error a Space Master could make.  He didn't die along with the other 32 passengers when his ship smashed into the Bog on Venus. 

They broke him--exiled him to the rotting fungus fields of Venus.

Now his only desire in existence was to return to the cool, gleaning sea of deep space.  

And there was a way--only one.  But he would have to become the vilest parasite in the