 Despite its harsh conditions, Weinbaum's Pluto includes a number of life-forms, all of them crystalline creatures called crystal crawlers that consume various elements, including aluminum, iron, and carbon.Around the year 2080, the Dutch spaceship "Aardkin" out of Venus is approaching Earth when she is boarded by pirates from the notorious spaceship the "Red Peri".Passenger Frank Keene, an American radiation engineer and spaceship pilot, sees that one of the pirates has red hair, before that pirate literally tweaks his nose and leaves.