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Back to Venus, with a difference. This is the astronomical Venus, not the romantic vision of "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth." (But notice the sea images, even in this rationalist's view of the Planet of Love.) Like all Lorry Niven's stories, this one is solidly based on present-day science and technology, and it contains a neat, nasty problem: if something goes wrong with a spacecraft whose control system is a Cyborgpart human, part wires and transistorsis the trouble mechanical or psychological? And how do you find out before it kills you? BECALMED IN HELL Larry Niven I could feel the heat hovering outside. In the cabin it was bright and dry and cool, almost too cool, like a modem office building in the dead of the summer. Beyond the two small windows it was as black as it ever gets in the solar system, and hot enough to melt lead, at a pressure equivalent to three hundred feet beneath the ocean. "There goes a fish," I said, just to break the monotony. "So how's |
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