Pamela Sargent published the first novel in her «Venus» trilogy, Venus of Dreams, in 1986; it was followed by Venus of Shadows (1988) and Child of Venus (2001). For the first time, Dream of Venus collects the short fiction set against the backdrop of the author's Venus novels, comprising four stories written after the trilogy had been completed. As Sargent writes in her Introduction: «Characters and stories existing in the interfaces of the novels began to speak to me.» These are tales that...
Pamela Sargent's latest collection assembles 10 of her recent stories, including «Puss in D.C.,» «Strawberry Birdies,» and «A Smaller Government,» showing why she's one of the most popular authors currently writing science fiction today.<P> From the introduction by Eleanor Arnason: «Sargent has a quality usually associated with hard SF: a certain kind of intellectual rigor. With her, it carries through all of her work. She thinks things through. … Notice, when you read this...
