Explore "The Mercurian" by Frank Belknap Long on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
For ages Mankind labelled Mercury a dead / world -- a red-hot, seething outpost of hell. / Too late Rawley learned of the hideous life / that molten, steaming planet spawned!
We stood before the airlock, the old man and I, and watched them go out. Ellison was a granite man and I was just the lad who threw the switches.