Project Gutenberg 2010-02-17 Public domain in the USA. 48 Hasse, Henry 1913 1977 Hasse, Henry Louis One Purple Hope! Reading ease score: 86.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "One Purple Hope!" by Henry Hasse is a science fiction novella written during the early 1950s. The narrative follows the tragic plight of Joel Latham, an Earthman turned tsith addict, as he navigates the underbelly of Venusport, a place rife with despair and addiction. The central theme revolves around Latham's desperate quest for redemption and escape from his life of addiction and hopelessness. In the story, Joel Latham wakes up in a swamp, struggling with the effects of his addiction to a substance called tsith. As he recalls his past, Latham recognizes his deteriorating condition and desperate situation, having lost everything to his addiction, including the trust of his peers and his possessions. After a brief encounter with Kueelo, a Martian companion, Latham learns that he has been cheated, losing a precious gem—the purple Josmian—which he believes could offer him a way out of his desperate circumstances. In a fevered attempt to reclaim the gem from Kueelo and another companion, Kraaz, Latham embarks on a treacherous journey through the jungle, battling both the dangers of the wilderness and his addiction. However, upon finally reaching Penger, the man who controls the supply of tsith, he faces an even greater challenge regarding the price of his escape, ultimately leading to a crushing realization about his choices and fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Venus (Planet) -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 66326 66316 2024-10-13T10:01:19.451831 2023-09-14T03:51:04.431061 text/html text/html 62736 2010-02-17T11:19:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 113477 2010-02-17T11:19:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 163872 2024-10-13T10:01:23.622789 application/epub+zip 162766 2024-10-13T10:01:21.188779 application/epub+zip 83995 2024-10-13T10:01:20.064791 application/epub+zip 250540 2024-10-13T10:01:25.433793 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243175 2024-10-13T10:01:22.965773 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 142756 2022-09-14T11:15:39.615095 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 58743 58640 2024-10-13T10:01:19.134806 2023-09-14T03:51:04.219029 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 58649 2010-02-17T11:19:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 22725 2010-02-17T11:19:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20228 2024-10-13T10:01:25.557751 application/rdf+xml 12112 2024-10-13T10:01:20.610789 image/jpeg 3329 2024-10-13T10:01:20.333792 image/jpeg 177460 2024-10-13T10:01:19.473799 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia