Old Venus

{{Short description|2015 anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois}} {{Infobox book |  | name = Old Venus | image = File:Old Venus (2015).jpg | caption = First edition cover | author = Various | editors = George R. R. Martin <br> Gardner Dozois | cover_artist = Stephen Youll | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Science fiction | published = March 3, 2015 | publisher = Bantam Books | media_type = Print (hardcover) | pages = 608 | isbn = 978-0-345-53728-7 | oclc = | preceded_by = Old Mars | followed_by = }}

'''''Old Venus''''' is a "retro Venus science fiction"-themed anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, published on March 3, 2015.<ref name="GRRM 2014-06">{{cite web|url=http://grrm.livejournal.com/374059.html?thread=19204907 |title=Not A Blog: ''Venus'' In March |first=George R. R. |last=Martin |author-link=George R. R. Martin |date=June 19, 2014 |website=GRRM.livejournal.com |access-date=September 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821044623/http://grrm.livejournal.com/374059.html?thread=19204907 |archive-date=August 21, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2015/03/01/new-and-noteworthy/23743065/ |title=Books: New and noteworthy |first=Jocelyn |last=McClurg |work=USA Today |date=March 1, 2015 |access-date=March 3, 2015}}</ref> It's a follow-up to the anthology ''Old Mars'' (2013), both of them written in the planetary romance tradition.<ref>[https://reactormag.com/rekindling-planetary-romance-old-mars-and-old-venus-edited-by-george-r-r-martin-and-gardner-dozois/ Rekindling Planetary Romance: Old Mars and Old Venus, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois]</ref> All of ''Old Venus'' stories are set on the planet Venus as styled in the pre-space probe pulp magazines of the 1930s through the 1950s, when the planet was presumed to have a high likelihood of being habitable.

==Contents== The anthology includes 17 stories:<ref name="GRRM 2014-06"/> *Introduction: Return to Venusport by Gardner Dozois * "Frogheads" by Allen M. Steele * "The Drowned Celestrial" by Lavie Tidhar * "Planet of Fear" by Paul McAuley * "Greeves and the Evening Star" by Matthew Hughes * "A Planet Called Desire" by Gwyneth Jones * "Living Hell" by Joe Haldeman * "Bones of Air, Bones of Stone" by Stephen Leigh * "Ruins" by Eleanor Arnason * "The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss" by David Brin * "By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers" by Garth Nix * "The Sunset of Time" by Michael Cassutt * "Pale Blue Memories" by Tobias S. Buckell * "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" by Elizabeth Bear * "The Wizard of the Trees" by Joe R. Lansdale * "The Godstone of Venus" by Mike Resnick * "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" by Ian McDonald

==See also==

* ''Farewell, Fantastic Venus'' - a collection of freshly-obsolete habitable-Venus stories from 1968 * Venus in fiction

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:2015 anthologies Category:Gardner Dozois anthologies Category:Short stories set on Venus Category:George R. R. Martin anthologies