Editing Venus in fiction (section)

=== Jungle and swamp ===
Early treatments of a Venus covered in swamps and jungles are found in [[Gustavus W. Pope]]'s ''[[Journey to Venus]]'' (1895), [[Fred T. Jane]]'s ''[[To Venus in Five Seconds]]'' (1897), and [[Maurice Baring]]'s "[[Venus (Baring short story)|Venus]]" (1909).<ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=547}} Following its popularization by Arrhenius, the portrayal of the Venusian landscape as dominated by jungles and swamps recurred frequently in other works of fiction; in particular, [[Brian Stableford]] says in ''[[Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia]]'' that it became "a staple of [[Pulp magazine|pulp]] science fiction imagery".<ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=547}} [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Immeasurable Horror]]" (1931) and [[Lester del Rey]]'s "[[The Luck of Ignatz]]" (1939) depict threatening Venusian creatures in a swamp-and-jungle climate.<ref name="Westfahl2022Venus" />{{Rp|page=167–168}} "[[In the Walls of Eryx]]" (1936) by [[H. P. Lovecraft]] and [[Kenneth Sterling]] features an invisible maze on a jungle Venus.<ref name="VaasZivilisationenAufDerNachbarplanet" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bleiler |first=E. F. |title=Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day |date=1999 |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |isbn=0-684-80593-6 |editor-last=Bleiler |editor-first=Richard |editor-link=Richard Bleiler |edition=2nd |location=New York |chapter=H. P. Lovecraft |oclc=40460120 |author-link=E. F. Bleiler |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionwr0000unse/page/483/mode/2up}}</ref>{{Rp|page=483}}

[[File:Fantastic_adventures_194111.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''[[Fantastic Adventures]]'', November 1941, featuring the ''[[Amtor]]'' story "The Living Dead" from Burroughs's ''[[Escape on Venus]]''|alt=Refer to caption]]
In the [[planetary romance]] subgenre that flourished in this era, [[Ralph Milne Farley]] and [[Otis Adelbert Kline]] wrote series in this setting starting with ''[[The Radio Man]]'' (1924) and ''[[The Planet of Peril]]'' (1929), respectively.<ref name="Westfahl2021VenusAndVenusians" />{{Rp|page=671}}<ref name="Dozois" />{{rp|xiii}}<ref name="PringlePlanetaryRomances">{{Cite book |title=The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: The Definitive Illustrated Guide |date=1996 |publisher=Carlton |isbn=1-85868-188-X |editor-last=Pringle |editor-first=David |editor-link=David Pringle |location= |language=en |chapter=Planetary Romances |oclc=38373691 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/ultimateencyclop0000unse_a8c7/page/23/mode/2up}}</ref>{{Rp|page=23}}<ref name="BleilerTheEarlyYears">{{Cite book |last=Bleiler |first=Everett Franklin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KEZxhkG5eikC&pg=PA921 |title=Science-fiction, the Early Years: A Full Description of More Than 3,000 Science-fiction Stories from Earliest Times to the Appearance of the Genre Magazines in 1930 : with Author, Title, and Motif Indexes |date=1990 |publisher=Kent State University Press |others=With the assistance of [[Richard Bleiler|Richard J. Bleiler]] |isbn=978-0-87338-416-2 |language=en |author-link=E. F. Bleiler}}</ref>{{Rp|page=232–234}} These stories were inspired by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s Martian ''[[Barsoom]]'' series that began with ''[[A Princess of Mars]]'' (1912);<ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=547}}<ref name="PringlePlanetaryRomances" />{{Rp|page=23}} Burroughs later wrote planetary romances set on a swampy Venus in the ''[[Amtor]]'' series, beginning with ''[[Pirates of Venus]]'' (1932).<ref name="Westfahl2022Venus" />{{Rp|page=167}}<ref name="Liptak" /> Other authors who wrote planetary romances in this setting include [[C. L. Moore]] with the [[Northwest Smith]] adventure "[[Black Thirst]]" (1934) and [[Leigh Brackett]] with stories like "[[The Moon that Vanished]]" (1948) and the [[Eric John Stark]] story "[[Enchantress of Venus]]" (1949).<ref name="Dozois" />{{rp|xiv}}<ref name="VaasZivilisationenAufDerNachbarplanet" />

[[Robert A. Heinlein]] portrayed Venusian swamps in several unrelated stories including "[[Logic of Empire]]" (1941), ''[[Space Cadet]]'' (1948), and ''[[Podkayne of Mars]]'' (1963).<ref name="GreenwoodVenus" />{{rp|860}} On [[television]], a 1955 episode of ''[[Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (TV-series)|Tom Corbett, Space Cadet]]'' depicts a crash landing in a Venusian swamp.<ref name="Westfahl2022Venus" />{{Rp|page=168}} Bradbury's short story "[[The Long Rain]]" (1950) depicts Venus as a planet with incessant rain, and was later adapted to screen twice: to film in [[The Illustrated Man (film)|''The Illustrated Man'']] (1969) and to television in ''[[The Ray Bradbury Theater]]'' (1992)—though the latter removed all references to Venus in light of the changed scientific views on the planet's conditions.<ref name="SFEVenus" /><ref name="Westfahl2022Venus" />{{Rp|page=168}}<ref name="Liptak">{{Cite magazine |last=Liptak |first=Andrew |date=May 2016 |title=Destination: Venus |url=https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liptak_05_16/ |magazine=[[Clarkesworld Magazine]] |issue=116 |issn=1937-7843}}</ref><ref name="SpaceScienceReviewsVenus">{{Cite journal |last1=O'Rourke |first1=Joseph G. |last2=Wilson |first2=Colin F. |last3=Borrelli |first3=Madison E. |last4=Byrne |first4=Paul K. |last5=Dumoulin |first5=Caroline |last6=Ghail |first6=Richard |last7=Gülcher |first7=Anna J. P. |last8=Jacobson |first8=Seth A. |last9=Korablev |first9=Oleg |last10=Spohn |first10=Tilman |last11=Way |first11=M. J. |last12=Weller |first12=Matt |last13=Westall |first13=Frances |date=2023 |title=Venus, the Planet: Introduction to the Evolution of Earth's Sister Planet |url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1744153/FULLTEXT01.pdf |url-status=live |journal=[[Space Science Reviews]] |language=en |volume=219 |issue=1 |page= 10|doi=10.1007/s11214-023-00956-0 |bibcode=2023SSRv..219...10O |s2cid=256599851 |issn=0038-6308 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711065750/http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1744153/FULLTEXT01.pdf |archive-date=2023-07-11}}</ref>{{Rp|page=13}} Bradbury revisited the rainy vision of Venus in "[[All Summer in a Day]]" (1954), where the Sun is only visible through the cloud cover once every seven years.<ref name="VaasZivilisationenAufDerNachbarplanet" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=D'Ammassa |first=Don |title=Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |date=2005 |publisher=Facts On File |isbn=978-0-8160-5924-9 |language=en |chapter=Bradbury, Ray |author-link=Don D'Ammassa |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofsc0000damm/page/53/mode/2up}}</ref>{{Rp|page=53}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nicoll |first=James Davis |author-link=James Nicoll |date=2022-07-26 |title=Five Stone-Cold SFF Bummers That Might Make You Feel Better About Your Own Life |url=https://www.tor.com/2022/07/26/five-stone-cold-sff-bummers-that-might-make-you-feel-better-about-your-own-life/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809023708/https://www.tor.com/2022/07/26/five-stone-cold-sff-bummers-that-might-make-you-feel-better-about-your-own-life/ |archive-date=2022-08-09 |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=[[Tor.com]] |language=en-US}}</ref> In [[German science fiction]], the ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' novels (launched in 1961) used the vision of Venus as a jungle world, while the protagonist in [[K. H. Scheer]]'s sixteenth ''{{Ill|ZBV (novel series)|lt=ZBV|de|ZBV (Romanserie)}}'' novel ''[[Raumpatrouille Nebelwelt]]'' (1963) is surprised to find that Venus does not have jungles—reflecting then-recent discoveries about the environmental conditions on Venus.<ref name="VaasZivilisationenAufDerNachbarplanet" /><ref name="WandererAmHimmelVenus" />{{rp|78}}