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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: May 2001
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - Space Exploration
Retail Price: $8.99
Pages: 384
Venus is a fast-paced adventure based on the latest real scientific discoveriesfrom Ben Bova, a master of science-based SF and author of Apes and Angels\n\nThe surface of Venus can melt aluminum, the air pressure can crush spacecraft landers like tin cans, and the atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases.\n\nThis is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying.\n\nHis older brother died in the first attempt to land a man on Venus, years before. Now his father is offering a ten billion dollars to the first person to land on Venus and return his oldest son\'s remains.\n\nTwo teams race to land on Venus, retrieve the remains, and claim the prize.\n\nWhat Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everythingour understanding of Venus, of global warming on Earth, and his knowledge of who he is.