Old Venus

Old Venus

First edition cover
Editors	George R. R. Martin Gardner Dozois
Author	Various
Cover artist	Stephen Youll
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Published	March 3, 2015
Publisher	Bantam Books
Publication place	United States
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

References

1. Martin, George R. R. (June 19, 2014). "Not A Blog: Venus In March". GRRM.livejournal.com. Archived from the original on August 21, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
2. McClurg, Jocelyn (March 1, 2015). "Books: New and noteworthy". USA Today . Retrieved March 3, 2015.