"The Embarkation for Cythera" is a painting by Antoine Watteau.
"The Day We Embarked For Cythera" is a short story by Brian Aldiss.
In "Strange Bedfellows," Don Sevigny, a Cytherean, remembers Mount Victory looming over green Carl's Lake on Venus.
With men drilling on the Moon, a Martian and a human colony on a terrestroid Venus, the background of "Strange Bedfellows" sounds similar to that of Robert Heinlein's Future History.
We have left a fictional Solar System behind and now send probes into the real one.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I don't believe the terraforming and colonization of Venus to be necessarily impossible, as Jerry Pournelle argued in his essay "The Big Rain."
And I love the idea of terraforming the Moon!!!
Ad astra! Sean
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