Wind is a science fiction short story by American author Charles L. Fontenay first published in 1959.
When you have an engine with no fuel, and fuel without an engine, and a life-and-death deadline to meet, you have a problem indeed. Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman--and Jan Van Artevelde was the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus.
A Dutchman braves high winds and Venusquakes to get to a sick kid at a remote outpost who needs transportation back to the rocket port and then to Earth. When he gets to the outpost he finds he is stranded…
Charles Louis Fontenay (1917–2007) was an American journalist and science fiction writer. He wrote science fiction novels and short stories.
