Editing Venus in fiction (section)

=== Nostalgic depictions ===
{{See also|Mars in fiction#Nostalgic depictions}}
A romantic, habitable, pre-Mariner Venus continued to appear for a while in deliberately nostalgic and [[Retro style|retro]] works such as Zelazny's "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" (1965) and [[Thomas M. Disch]]'s "[[Come to Venus Melancholy]]" (1965), and [[Brian Aldiss]] and [[Harry Harrison (writer)|Harry Harrison]] collected works written before the scientific advancements in the anthology ''[[Farewell, Fantastic Venus]]'' (1968).<ref name="ScienceFactAndScienceFiction" />{{Rp|page=548}}<ref name="Dozois" />{{rp|xv-xvii}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tomlinson |first1=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_f4g9NHkPcC&pg=PA201 |title=Harry Harrison: An Annotated Bibliography |last2=Harrison |first2=Harry |date=2002 |publisher=Wildside Press LLC |isbn=978-1-58715-401-0 |language=en |author-link2=Harry Harrison (writer)}}</ref>{{Rp|page=201}} The nostalgic image of Venus has also occasionally resurfaced several decades later: [[S. M. Stirling]]'s ''[[The Sky People]]'' (2006) takes place in an [[Parallel universes in fiction|alternate universe]] where the pulp version of Venus is real, and the anthology ''[[Old Venus]]'' (2015) edited by [[George R. R. Martin]] and [[Gardner Dozois]] collects newly-written works in the style of older stories about the now-outdated vision of Venus.<ref name="Liptak" /><ref name="Dozois" />{{rp|xv-xvii}} The [[role-playing game]]s ''[[Space: 1889]]'' (1989) and ''[[Mutant Chronicles]]'' (1993) likewise use a deliberately retro depiction of Venus.<ref name="WandererAmHimmelVenus" />{{rp|79}}