Old Venus Explained

Old Venus
Author:	Various
Editors:	George R. R. Martin Gardner Dozois
Cover Artist:	Stephen Youll
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Science fiction
Published:	March 3, 2015
Publisher:	Bantam Books
Media Type:	Print (hardcover)
Pages:	608
Isbn:	978-0-345-53728-7
Preceded By:	Old Mars

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.

Contents

The anthology includes 17 stories:^[1]

• Introduction: Return to Venusport by Gardner Dozois
• "Frogheads" by Allen M. Steele
• "The Drowned Celestrial" 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

See also

• Farewell, Fantastic Venus - a collection of freshly-obsolete habitable-Venus stories from 1968
• Venus in fiction

Notes and References

1. Web site: Not A Blog: Venus In March . George R. R. . Martin . George R. R. Martin . June 19, 2014 . GRRM.livejournal.com . September 27, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140821044623/http://grrm.livejournal.com/374059.html?thread=19204907 . August 21, 2014 . dead .
2. Web site: Books: New and noteworthy . Jocelyn . McClurg . . March 1, 2015 . March 3, 2015.