London Book Festival Honorable Mention Cosmic Ray's Excellent Venus Adventure is the third thrilling book in mythologist, magic realist, and ufologist, Dr. Raymond A. Keller's internationally acclaimed and award-winning Venus Rising series. Some of the interesting- and real individuals- you'll meet in this book of astounding science include: A Canadian defense minister who "spilled the beans" about Venusians and other aliens living and working among us, scientists from around the world engineering new developments to explore and understand various outer space phenomena like magnetic reconnection, traveling faster than the speed of light, and the requisites for intelligent life on other planets, "Cosmic Ray" traversing Dimension X with the Queen of Outer Space, Dolores Barrios. This book also contains three never-before-seen photos of the Queen, to include some with the Cosmic Ray himself. A couple from Northern California who as the co-presidents of one of America's first flying saucer clubs travel along with their group's membership to every UFO meeting and sky watch in 1950's California with the hopes of reconnecting with Venusians they once encountered in the Mojave Desert. Krsanna Durant of TimeStar reveals startling new revelations that will shake the ufology universe. A Nevada road construction foreman at Mormon Mesa, Nevada, just outside a nuclear testing site, who encounters a female saucer pilot. Sporting a beret and looking quite the revolutionary, her name is Aura Rhanes and she is from the Venusian space base Clarion on the far side of the Moon. She's monitoring atomic blasts in the desert. Possibly the second most powerful being from Venus posing as an aging, wannabe aspiring actress living in the North Hollywood Hills. An Aerojet missile contractor who flew in a remote controlled flying saucer from White Sands, New Mexico, to New York City and back in less than 30 minutes, in 1949 no less. Never-before-seen photos taken by the contractor of Air Force personnel attached to him while working on the development of the top secret Falcon missile's dual radar and heat-seeking targeting systems are included. Countless others also appear in the well-documented pages of all Cosmic Ray's epic Venus Rising books. So take your protein pills and put your helmet on because we are going to momentarily be blasting off for high adventures on Venus with both Cosmic Ray himself and his long-time friend and associate, the glorious Queen of Outer Space! Dr. Raymond A. Keller, II, award-winning author and retired History professor, is the author of the Venus Rising trilogy Final Countdown: Rockets to Venus and The Cosmic Ray's Excellent Venus Adventure are newest in the series. Dr. Keller's books explore various facets of conditions and life on Venus in many dimensions from a perspective of conspiracies, history, theosophy, ufology and current events, especially space research. To date, the first book, Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet, won awards at the Southern California and London Book Festivals. Dr. Keller has lived and worked in 44 different countries and has been writing about UFOs and paranormal activity since 1967. He was the founder and director of the Outer Space International Research and Investigations Society (OSIRIS) of Hilmar, California, as well as the publisher and co-editor of the New Millennial Star, a monthly pre-Internet tabloid newspaper with a circulation of 7,500 copies. He received his doctoral degree from West Virginia University in 2011 focusing on various aspects of the Basque settlement of Venezuela, and received his master's degree from the same institution in 2004 in foreign language with an emphasis on magic realism in Latin American literature.