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[10]: 547 Following its popularization by Arrhenius, the portrayal of the Venusian landscape as dominated by jungles and swamps recurred frequently in other works of fiction; in particular, Brian Stableford says in Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia that it became "a staple of pulp science fiction imagery". [10]: 547 Clark Ashton ...
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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.
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 ...
The authors whose stories were included ranged from C.S. Lewis (excerpt from Perelandra) to Edgar Rice Burroughs (excerpt from Pirates of Venus) and from Olaf Stapledon (excerpt from Last and First Men) to Poul Anderson ("The Big Rain", "Sister Planet"). Essay and meditation from a variety of scientists and science fiction writers were also ...
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.
"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 ).
"Half-Breeds on Venus" was the twentieth story written by Asimov, the tenth to be published, the first sequel to an earlier story, and the first to "make the cover", i.e. to be the source of the magazine's cover illustration. At ten thousand words, it was also the longest story Asimov had had published up to that time.