Dream of Venus and Other Science Fiction Stories. Pamela Sargent

was sure that I was finished with the Venus terraforming project and also any fiction even slightly related to the trilogy once Child of Venus was written (I estimate that the published novels contain some 750,000 words), but as I’ve said, stories will get themselves written however they can. The stories in this book were not part of the Venus trilogy, but were written after I had finished Child of Venus, when characters and stories existing in the interstices of the novels began to speak to me. These are stories that can stand alone outside that context, but I hope that they will allow some readers to revisit those books and perhaps others to discover them.

      ―Pamela Sargent

      Albany, New York

      December 30, 2011