Editing Venus in fiction (section)

=== Ocean ===
Others envisioned Venus as a [[panthalassic planet]], covered by a planet-wide ocean with perhaps a few islands. Large land masses were thought impossible due to the assumption that they would have generated atmospheric updrafts disrupting the planet's solid cloud layer.<ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=547}}<ref name="ley196604" />{{rp|131}}<ref name="Zalasiewicz">{{Cite journal |last=Zalasiewicz |first=Jan |date=November 2021 |editor-last=Jarochowska |editor-first=Emilia |title=Scanning the heavens |url=https://www.palass.org/publications/newsletter/archive/108/newsletter-no-108 |journal=Palaeontology Newsletter |volume=108 |issn=0954-9900}}</ref>{{Rp|page=41}} Early treatments of an oceanic Venus include [[Harl Vincent]]'s "[[Venus Liberated]]" (1929) and [[Leslie F. Stone]]'s "[[Women with Wings]]" (1930) and ''[[Across the Void]]'' (1931).<ref name="Westfahl2022Venus" />{{Rp|page=167}}<ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=548}} In [[Olaf Stapledon]]'s ''[[Last and First Men]]'' (1930), future descendants of humanity [[Pantropy|are modified to be adapted to life]] on an ocean-covered Venus.<ref name="SFEVenus" /><ref name="Westfahl2021VenusAndVenusians" />{{Rp|page=672}}<ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=548}} [[Clifford D. Simak]]'s "[[Rim of the Deep]]" (1940) likewise features an oceanic Venus, with the story set at the bottom of Venusian seas, featuring pirates and hostile Venusian aliens.<ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=548}}<ref name="Ewald">{{Cite book |last=Ewald |first=Robert J. |title=When the Fires Burn High and The Wind is From the North: The Pastoral Science Fiction of Clifford D. Simak |date=2006 |publisher=Wildside Press LLC |isbn=978-1-55742-218-7 |language=en |chapter=The Early Simak |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKFObLxy1f8C&pg=PA23}}</ref>{{Rp|page=26–27}} [[C. S. Lewis]]'s ''[[Perelandra]]'' (1943) retells the [[Bible|Biblical]] story of [[Adam and Eve]] in the [[Garden of Eden]] on [[floating island]]s in a vast Venusian ocean.<ref name="SFEVenus" /><ref name="Westfahl2021VenusAndVenusians" />{{Rp|page=672}}<ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=548}} [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus]]'' (1954) depicts human colonists living in underwater cities on Venus.<ref name="Westfahl2022Venus" />{{Rp|page=167}}<ref name="Zalasiewicz" />{{Rp|page=42}} In [[Poul Anderson]]'s "[[Sister Planet]]" (1959), migration to an oceanic Venus is contemplated as a potential solution to Earth's [[overpopulation]].<ref name="GreenwoodVenus" />{{rp|860}} "[[Clash by Night (short story)|Clash by Night]]" (1943) by [[Lawrence O'Donnell (science fiction)|Lawrence O'Donnell]] (joint [[pseudonym]] of C. L. Moore and [[Henry Kuttner]]) and its sequel ''[[Fury (1947 novel)|Fury]]'' (1947) describe survivors from a devastated Earth living beneath Venusian oceans. Those two works have been called in ''[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]'' "the most enduring pulp image" of an oceanic Venus, and the former received another sequel decades later, ''[[The Jungle (Drake novel)|The Jungle]]'' (1991) by [[David A. Drake]].<ref name="SFEVenus" /><ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=548}} [[Roger Zelazny]]'s "[[The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth]]" (1965) was the last major depiction of an ocean-covered Venus, published shortly after that vision had been rendered obsolete by advances in [[planetary science]].<ref name="Westfahl2021VenusAndVenusians" />{{Rp|page=672}}<ref name="GreenwoodVenus" />{{rp|860}}