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mananaysiempre on April 29, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: After 53 years, a failed Soviet Venus spacecraft i...

On the sci-fi side one notable example is The Land of Crimson Clouds (Страна багровых туч, 1959) by the Strugatsky brothers. Unfortunately, there’s no official English translation that I can find.

zabzonk on April 29, 2025 | [–]

another sf story by cordwainer smith:

https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smithcordwainer-whenthepeoplefel...

FuriouslyAdrift on April 29, 2025 | [–]

A great (if not incredibly satirical and cynical) sci-fi book on Venus colonization is The Space Merchants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants

mr_toad on April 29, 2025 | [–]

If you’re into hard SF I recommend The House of Styx, and The House of Saints by Derek Künsken.

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