The sci-fi story "The Land of Crimson Clouds" tells about a difficult and dangerous expedition full of dramatic events to Venus, one of the most inaccessible planets in the solar system.At the end of the 20th century, at the height of the great conquest by man near the sun, on Venus an unusually rich deposit of radioactive ores, the Uranian Golconda, was discovered. To storm Venus, Soviet designers are creating a new type of interplanetary ship - the Khius photonic rocket. The exploration of the mysterious "Uranium Golconda" and the device on its shores of the first rocket launcher is entrusted to a select six of brave interplanetary.