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8/10 Fantasy Book Review Language English Pages 608 Preceded by Old Mars Page count 608 Publisher Bantam Books | 3.5/5 Goodreads Country United States Media type Print (Hardcover) ISBN 978-0-345-53728-7 Originally published 3 March 2015 Genre Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Editors Gardner Dozois, George R. R. Martin Similar Gardner Dozois books, Works by George R R Martin, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Old Venus is a "retro Venus science fiction"-themed anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, that was published on March 3, 2015. All of the stories are set on the planet Venus as styled in the pulp magazines of the 1960s.
Contents
The anthology includes 17 stories:
- 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
References
Old Venus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA