 The plot of Eric's newest book most likely reflects:
Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories December 1961 and was first published in Amazing Stories November 1930. A Classic Reprint from AMAZING STORIES, November, 1930 A disciple of A. Merritt, he attempted to imitate in style, mood and subject the magic of that late lamented master of fantasy. He followed his initial success with two short novels , The Green Girl in AMAZING STORIES and The Alien Intelligence in SCIENCE WONDER STORIES , another Gernsback publication. When the vogue for science-fantasy altered to super science, he created the memorable super lock-picker Giles Habilula as the major attraction in a rousing trio of space operas , The Legion of Space, The Cometeers and One Against the Legion. When grim realism was the order of the day, he produced Crucible of Power and when they wanted extrapolated theory in present tense, he assumed the disguise of Will Stewart and popularized the concept of contra terrene matter in science fiction with Seetee Ship and Seetee Shock. The Cosmic Express is of special interest because it was written during Williamson's A. Merritt "kick," when he was writing little else but, and it gave the earliest indication of a more general capability. It is especially important because it stylistically forecast a later trend to accept the background for granted, regardless of the quantity of wonders, and proceed with the story. Mr. Eric Stokes-Harding tumbled out of the rumpled bed-clothing, a striking slender figure in purple-striped pajamas. But after a few half-hearted movements, he gave it up, and walked through an open door into a small bright room, its walls covered with bookcases and also with scientific appliances that would have been strange to the man of four or five centuries before, when the Age of Aviation was beginning. Yawning, Mr. Eric Stokes-Harding stood before the great open window, staring out.
 How Eric wishes he could have provided for Nada on their visit to Venus
 How Eric wishes he could have provided for Nada on their visit to Venus  How Nada resents Eric for not providing for her on their visit to Venus  How Eric has contorted his experience on Venus to seem more like his protagonist  How Nada would have envisioned her and Eric's visit to Venus