Red Sun On Venus

"The Big Rain," II.

"The sun was down on a ragged horizon, dimly visible as a huge blood-red disk..." (p. 171)

I thought that a common feature of all pre-probe versions of Venus was that the heavy clouds concealed all heavenly bodies - but not in this case.

In Poul Anderson's Technic History, Venus has been incompletely terraformed but we are not told what it was like before that. The Technic History has a gas giant Jupiter whereas Three Worlds To Conquer has a solid surface Jupiter.

Twentieth century sf reflects increasing knowledge of the Solar System.

I will probably publish posts quickly in order to beat the next problem with the computer.