Old Venus

by Allen M. Steele, David Brin, Eleanor Arnason, Elizabeth Bear, Garth Nix, Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, Joe Haldeman, Joe R. Lansdale, Lavie Tidhar, Matthew Hughes, Michael Cassutt, Mike Resnick, Paul McAuley, Stephen Leigh, Tobias S. Buckell

Curated by Gardner R. Dozois, George R.R. Martin

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From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth’s next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century’s space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life.

But don’t despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction’s best writers—edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois—turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination.

Join our cast of award-winning contributors—including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more—as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries.

- Frogheads by Allen M. Steele
- The Drowned Celestial by Lavie Tidhar
- Planet of Fear by Paul McAuley
- Greeves and the Evening Star by Matthew Hughes
- A Planet Called Desire by Gwyneth Jones
- Living Hell by Joe Haldeman
- Bones of Air, Bones of Stone by Stephen Leigh
- Ruins by Eleanor Arnason
- The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss by David Brin
- By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers by Garth Nix
- The Sunset of Time by Michael Cassutt
- Pale Blue Memories by Tobias S. Buckell
- The Heart's Filthy Lesson by Elizabeth Bear
- The Wizard of the Trees by Joe R. Lansdale
- The Godstone of Venus by Mike Resnick
- Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess
- Rathangan by Ian McDonald

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