An underground "air camp," for converting the atmosphere of Venus, receives:
food from Little Moscow;
water from Hellfire;
chemicals from New America and Roger's Landing.
Underground cities specialize because no area has enough iron ore etc to enable any of them to produce everything by itself.
Camps have to be located to minimize travel distances. Aircraft are needed elsewhere and there are no roads so tanks pull themselves across rough terrain with grapples. Wind is so loud that men sitting beside each other in a tank need communication equipment.
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Kaor, Paul!
One point that interests me about these two stories--"The Big Rain" and "Sister Planet"-- is their dates. "The Big Rain" was pub. by ASTOUNDING its October 1954 issue while SATELLITE pub. "Sister Planet" in the May 1959 issue. The former story is truer what Venus is actually like, instead of the latter. That year, 1959, was very near the end of the period of there being any hope of Venus being terrestroid.
Ad astra! Sean
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