Planet Stories July 1951 — Virgin of Valkarion, Poul Anderson Barbarian Cover
A dark-haired warrior queen clutches a dagger as a blond barbarian fighter seizes her mid-air, sword raised and teeth gritted — a prophecy of dynastic collapse exploding into violence above a moonlit alien battlefield. Alien soldiers in red helmets surge below, weapons drawn, as twin moons loom in the blue-black sky. This is planetary romance at full throttle: an outlander fulfilling a forbidden prophecy by seizing the queen of the 39th Dynasty.
Oh man, this one has EVERYTHING — a half-dressed queen with a dagger, a muscle-bound blond barbarian snatching her out of the sky, alien soldiers swarming below, and a prophecy about mating moons! Fiction House knew exactly what they were doing and they did it with zero apologies.
“STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS — PLANET stories TRADE MARK REG. A.N.C. JULY 25¢ VOL. 5 NO. 1 "The 39th Dynasty shall fall with the Mating of the Moons. An Outlander shall seize the Queen —" so ran the Prophecy The VIRGIN of VALKARION A Barbarian-Worlds Novel by POUL ANDERSON The TIMELESS ONES by FRANK B. LONG Strange Adventures on Other Worlds FICTION HOUSE MAGAZINE JULY 1951”
