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Venus appears in many pulp science fiction stories. Seen here is the winter 1939 cover of Planet Stories, featuring "The Golden Amazons of Venus".. The planet Venus has been used as a setting in fiction since before the 19th century.
"Venus and the Seven Sexes" is a science fiction story by American writer William Tenn. It was first published in the anthology The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, and Other Stories (Avon Publishing) in 1949, and then in 1953 in the anthology Science-Fiction Carnival by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds (Shasta Publishers).
The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for two hours every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. She describes the sun to ...
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Venus is a science fiction novel by American writer Ben Bova, [1] part of the Grand Tour novel series [citation needed] and first published in the year 2000. [1] The story follows Van Humphries, the son of the ruthless tycoon Martin Humphries, and his experiences on Venus.
Old Venus is a "retro Venus science fiction"-themed anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, published on March 3, 2015. [1] [2] All of the stories are set on the planet Venus as styled in the pre-space probe pulp magazines of the 1930s through the 1950s, when the planet was presumed to have a high likelihood of being habitable.
The book contains stories and novel excerpts of Venus in fiction from the time before its true nature became apparent, when the clouded planet could still be imagined as another Earth, albeit a hotter one. From that point on, few stories would be written which did not recognize Venus as a dry lifeless world with acid clouds and a temperature ...
The Venus Equilateral series is a set of 13 science fiction short stories by American writer George O. Smith, concerning the Venus Equilateral Relay Station, an interplanetary communications hub located at the L 4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Venus system. Most of the stories were first published in Astounding Science Fiction between 1942 and 1945.