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Old Venus is a definitive anthology of freshly written tales that harken back to the Golden Age of science fiction, when stories were eagerly set aboard our nearest planetary neighbors. The volume imagines a vivid, swampy Venus harboring strange creatures, and includes linked stories that explore a world as imagined before the space probes of the 1960s revealed a very different reality.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: General Fiction/Anthologies
Authors: George R. R. Martin
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