Maurice Duclos

The Sleeping Goddess Maurice Duclos

"Hardly had he taken a dozen steps than a faint rustling from a tangled bank of green before him drew his attention. He whipped out his gun, and then his muscles went limp in utter surprise. For there stood a woman! Jerry gasped his amazement. Nothing could have been more startlingly incongruous than a woman in this bizarre jungle. That the woman was of breathtaking loveliness only increased his surprise. Her body was like a sleek pale-bronze flame of perilous beauty. A slender body curved and rounded, half clothed, half revealed by a silken tight-fitting robe of yellow. Her hair, Miles could see, fell about her shoulders like tumbling black tresses spun from the essence of cosmic space. Her eyes also were jet, her face oval, exotic, red lips curved in a smile as she stood gazing at him.""The Sleeping Goddess" is an imaginative science-fantasy yarn first published in the May, 1939 issue of Fantastic Adventures. Maurice Duclos was a pseudonym.