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But to do so, the colony has become extremely collectivist and top-down, with little to now personal freedom and an ever-present secret police. The now-independent and unified colonies on Venus are working on terraforming it. It's not the real Venus we know now, but it's a lot more realistic than most sf and popular imagination portrayed at the time. It's oppressively hot still, but dry, barren, and uninhabitable in its current state. But this Venus is not the verdant jungle of other sf of this period. You might argue with the politics of it, and Anderson in his later years certainly did. The papers as she had left them.Another interesting feature is the story set on Venus. The switch, right where she knew it would be. Feet out.Īnd she was moving, two quick silent steps, three, and the wall. I'll be at the door anyway, and I'll scream and run like hell. The light switch was to the right of the door. In her mind's eye she saw him, the man with the dead brown eyes, playing with his knife as he sat there on her desk and whispered. The voice was back there in the darkness. Down into her sleep it had come.īehind her and to the left. She had left the little reading light on when she had gone to bed, she was sure of that, but now the room was dark. It was past midnight when Jill opened her eyes and heard the voice.
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