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Soviets on Venus
by Thomas Simmons
$20.99, Full-length, paper
979-8-88838-217-2
2023
Soviets on Venus explores a remote jeweled casket. It construes an alien neighbor as it reconceptualizes an underrated scientific breakthrough: the series of unnamed probes piloted to Venus by the USSR between 1961 and the mid-80’s. The missions were called the Venera program. These fantastical spacecraft transmitted data, vivid photographs, and poetic energy back to Earth. Some piloted through the morning star’s magma-hot, swampy atmosphere as balloons. A few smashed themselves into aeolian canyons or upon alien tufa. A handful simply melted away into silvery pools. And several ended in disaster. These fantastic probes form a sediment of verse from which a strange beauty emerges.
Thomas E. Simmons is a lawyer and professor at the Knudson School of Law. Previously, he authored Loose-Leaf Tod Browning Encyclopedia and S is for Sentence, both published by Cyberwit. He has taught at every educational level, from Pre-K and primary school to high school, college, and post-graduate. He lives in Vermillion, South Dakota.
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