Acknowledgments

For much of its “local color,” this tale owes a scientific debt to a terrific book about Sol’s second planet titled Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet by Dr. David Harry Grinspoon (1997, Helix Books/Addison-Wesley). Not only is this volume outstandingly informative and immensely readable, but it’s also got a good beat and you can dance to it. Any boners, fubars, or errors of the factual or scientific variety are purely the work of the authors, and not Dr. Grinspoon.