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"The Long Rain" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1950 under a different title in the magazine Planet Stories, and then in the collection The Illustrated Man. The story tells of four men who have crashed on Venus, where it is always raining.
"The Long Rain" - A group of astronauts are stranded on Venus, where it rains continually and heavily. The travelers make their way across the Venusian landscape to find a "sun dome", a shelter with a large artificial light source. The first sun dome they find has been destroyed by the native Venusians.
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 protagonist Beth (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) dances and sings to the music video. The scene takes place in 1967, well before the song was released in 1969. [126] [127] Bananarama's cover of "Venus" was featured in the 2011 video game Just Dance 3. The song has been used in commercials for Gillette Venus Women's Razor since c. 2001. [11]
Venus is one seriously hot planet, but it appears that is not its only claim to fame. Mysterious 6,000-mile-long wave discovered in Venus' atmosphere Skip to main content
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[3]: 168 Bradbury's short story "The Long Rain" (1950) depicts Venus as a planet with incessant rain, and was later adapted to screen twice: to film in The Illustrated Man (1969) and to television in The Ray Bradbury Theater (1992)—though the latter removed all references to Venus in light of the changed scientific views on the planet's ...
Germany kept alive its hopes of winning the Davis Cup for the first time in more than three decades by beating Canada in Wednesday's quarterfinal. Jan-Lennard Struff rallied to defeat Denis ...