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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 terraforming of Venus has remained comparatively rare in fiction, [3]: 164 though the process appears in works like Bob Buckley 's "World in the Clouds" (1980) and G. David Nordley's "The Snows of Venus" (1991), [3]: 171 [5]: 861 while other such as Raymond Harris's Shadows of the White Sun (1988) and Nordley's "Dawn Venus" (1995) feature ...
It includes modern novels, as well as novels written before the term "science fiction" was in common use. This list includes novels not marketed as SF but still considered to be substantially science fiction in content by some critics, such as Nineteen Eighty-Four. As such, it is an inclusive list, not an exclusive list based on other factors ...
The planet Venus in fiction. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. ... Novels set on Venus (1 C, 37 P) S. Short stories set ...
Philip Kaufman’s update of one of the most famous sci-fi movies of the ‘50s replaces the original’s paranoid, stranger-among-us Red Menace subtext and gives it a decidedly Me Decade ‘70s ...
Venus novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs (6 P) Pages in category "Novels set on Venus" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
"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.
Amtor is a verdant world [broken anchor] shielded from the heat of the Sun by a (nearly) perpetual cloud cover. The portion depicted, largely confined to the southern hemisphere's temperate zone (or Trabol, as it is known to its inhabitants), is primarily oceanic, but includes two continents and a number of large islands.