Series

Venus Equilateral

George O. Smith · 11 novelettes · 2 short stories · 2 collections · 1942–1976

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The Venus Equilateral series is a set of 13 science fiction short stories by American writer George O. Smith, concerning the Venus Equilateral Relay Station, an interplanetary communications hub located at the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Venus system. Most of the stories were first published in Astounding Science Fiction between 1942 and 1945.

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By decade

  • 1940s13
  • 1950s0
  • 1960s0
  • 1970s2

Shape

11 novelettes · 2 short stories · 2 collections

1 author · completed series

reads like:science fictionspace colonizationspace stationmid 20th centuryadventurousadult

Mood

Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.

this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 15 works carry a tone

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