Old Venus: A Collection of Stories

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction€s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois
 
From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs€s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury€s €œThe 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.
 
FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY
 
Eleanor Arnason € Elizabeth Bear € David Brin € Tobias S. Buckell € Michael Cassutt € Joe Haldeman € Matthew Hughes € Gwyneth Jones € Joe R. Lansdale € Stephen Leigh € Paul McAuley € Ian McDonald € Garth Nix € Mike Resnick € Allen M. Steele € Lavie Tidhar
 
And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois