Cytherea And Cythera

Cytherea is another name for Aphrodite/Venus and also a Greek island.

"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.