VenusThe surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases. |
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... living on the surface, they must be capable of withstanding heat that melts aluminum and pressures that can crush spacecraft. Formidable monsters indeed. |H|| || t should've been you, Runt!” he howled. “It. 12 BEN BOVA.
... living in the Asteroid Belt, a “rock rat,” in my father's genteel phrasing. “Fuchs. You'll have to wrestle my prize money away from him, Runt. I don't think you're man enough to do it.” I should have realized at that precise moment that ...
... living planetary scientist in the solar system. If you could call his asthmatic, arthritic, painfully slow pace of existence living. He had refused rejuvenation therapy, for some obscure reason. His religion, I think. Or perhaps just ...
... living room. They smashed against the stones of the fireplace into a thousand shards. That was Quenton: given to physical expression. But he was no fool. No one was standing within five meters of the fireplace when he gave vent to his ...
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Contents
1 | |
10 | |
13 | |
21 | |
31 | |
39 | |
LIFTOFF | 48 |
DREAM | 57 |
MUTTERINGS | 205 |
BELOW THE CLOUDS | 211 |
SPYING | 219 |
OVERHEATlNG | 225 |
MUTINY | 235 |
DEATH | 246 |
PUNISHMENT | 253 |
CONFLICT | 264 |
IN TRANSIT | 59 |
COMPETITION | 65 |
TRANSFER | 72 |
VENUS ORBIT | 82 |
RECONNAISSANCE | 91 |
ENTRY | 99 |
IN THE CLOUDS | 107 |
OUTSIDE | 116 |
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT | 123 |
BUG FOOD | 131 |
DEADLY DECISIONS | 139 |
COLLAPSE | 146 |
SINKING | 152 |
CATASTROPHE | 159 |
FALLING | 167 |
LARS FUCHS | 173 |
NIGHTMARE | 180 |
DEATH SENTENSE | 182 |
COMM TECH | 188 |
WAVERIDER | 196 |
SEARCHING | 269 |
FANTASY | 277 |
NODONS STORY | 279 |
MAKING HEADWAY | 283 |
NIGHTSlDE | 288 |
CONTACT | 295 |
REVELATIONS | 304 |
SIMULATIONS | 314 |
HECATE | 322 |
ERUPTION | 330 |
TIDAL WAVE | 338 |
CAPTURED | 344 |
RETRIEVED | 350 |
THE ESCAPE POD | 358 |
THE CYCLE OF DEATH | 369 |
BACK IN THE CLOUDS | 374 |
BEYOND DEATH | 384 |
A NEW LIFE | 393 |
SELENE CITY | 400 |