page_title: Venus in fiction
hierarchical_section_title: Venus in fiction
caption_attribution_description: English: Planet Stories magazine cover. Vol. 1, no. 1, Winter 1939. Published by Fiction House. Italiano: Copertina della rivista Planet Stories (vol.1, n.1, inverno 1939), un pulp magazine specializzato in storie avventurose ambientate su altri mondi, che illustra il racconto The Golden Amazons of Venus.
context_page_description: Fictional representations of the planet Venus have existed since the 19th century. Its impenetrable cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to speculate on conditions at its surface; all the more so when early observations showed that not only was it very similar in size to Earth, it possessed a substantial atmosphere. Closer to the Sun than Earth, the planet was frequently depicted as warmer, but still habitable by humans. The genre reached its peak between the 1930s and 1950s, at a time when science had revealed some aspects of Venus, but not yet the harsh reality of its surface conditions.
context_section_description: Fictional representations of the planet Venus have existed since the 19th century. Its impenetrable cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to speculate on conditions at its surface; all the more so when early observations showed that not only was it very similar in size to Earth, it possessed a substantial atmosphere. Closer to the Sun than Earth, the planet was frequently depicted as warmer, but still habitable by humans. The genre reached its peak between the 1930s and 1950s, at a time when science had revealed some aspects of Venus, but not yet the harsh reality of its surface conditions.
caption: Planet Stories Winter 1939
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