but I have a definite soft spot for Zelazny's approach, which is effectively to say "so there we were on a hostile alien planet - was it Venus? yeah, Venus, let's go with that" and then get on with doing something more interesting.
but I have a definite soft spot for Zelazny's approach, which is effectively to say "so there we were on a hostile alien planet - was it Venus? yeah, Venus, let's go with that" and then get on with doing something more interesting.
As I recall he said that he deliberately wanted to write a mars story and a Venus story before the actual science conclusively ruled out that fun.