Amtor

One of the first questions that Danus had asked me when I had acquired a working knowledge of his language was where I came from, but when I told him I had come from another world more than twenty-six million miles from his familiar Amtor, which is the name by which the Venusans know their world, he shook his head skeptically.

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

Away from the city, the land was all low forest, things not much like trees, grayish, bluish, a reddish-purple that I realized with a flush of pleasure might be the heliotrope of Amtor.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

"Since you first came to Amtor!" exclaimed the general.

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

Had he not been captured by the Myposans he would one day have been jong of Japal; and he probably had a family tree the roots of which reached way back into antiquity, as did those of most of the royal families of Amtor with which I am acquainted.

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

"Another thing that has always puzzled me," he said, "is how Amtor could float on a sea of molten rock without itself melting."

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

It is all very confusing to one who wishes to go places on the surface of Amtor and must depend upon an Amtorian map, and it seems quite silly; but then one must bear in mind the fact that these people have never seen the heavens; because of the cloud envelopes which enshroud the planet.

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

"You mean to say that Amtor is a round ball flying around the thing you call the Sun?" he demanded.

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

Vik-yor was not the first to get hold of something and not be able to let go -- the Vooyorgan was certainly in a fix; possibly as bad a fix as any amoeba had been in since the dawn of life on Amtor.

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

"There are many countries beyond those mountains," I replied; "and I have lived in several of them ever since I first came to Amtor"

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

I tried to explain the matter to him; but of course he couldn't grasp the fact that there was another world far from Amtor, nor could he readily accept my statement that Korva lay thousands of miles to the south.

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963