History Main / VenusIsWet

* Creator/IsaacAsimov: In ''Literature/LuckyStarr and the Oceans of Venus'' Venus is an ocean planet with seas and kelp (and domed underwater cities).

** Leads to a disastrous misunderstanding in "The Watery Place", as the irascible sheriff chosen for fits contact tells the aliens that no one here wants to see them, and they arrange for Earth to be forever isolated. He thought they said Venice!

* Creator/HPLovecraft: "In the Walls of Eryx", one of his ventures into straight science fiction, is set on a Venus that has a tropical climate and is filled with lush, swampy jungles.

* In the far future of ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'', all the planets of Earth's system have been made habitable via advanced teraforming technology. In the case of Venus, it is now a lush, green, paradise world similar to Themyscira, where the Amazons are able to live unmolested. (Until the antagonist's EvilPlan does so, that is.)

* Creator/PhilipKDick: While not described in detail, the Nazis in ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'' have established colonies on the Moon, Mars, and Venus by 1962.
* Stanley Weinbaum: ''Parasite Planet'' features a variation -- Venus is a TidallyLockedPlanet, one hemisphere a sun-baked desert, the other suberged under a sea of ice. However, the planet's "twilight zone" -- where the story takes place -- is a perfect example of this trope: hot, steamy, with a luxuriant flora and fauna [[EverythingTryingToKillYou hell-bent on eating you]] (yes, even the plants).

[[http://www.universetoday.com/23651/venus-possibly-had-continents-oceans/ Some new evidence]] suggests, however, that Venus ''did'' once have water [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00706 and could have been habitable as recently as around 700 million years ago]], but then something went wrong (most likely involving its volcanic system)[[note]]Venus lacks plate tectonics and its surface is instead renewed each few hundred million years in major volcanic events that cover the planet with lava[[/note]] creating a runaway greenhouse effect and as a result, the oceans either boiled away or were superseded by lava long before they could.

In the 1960s, the planet was visited by unmanned probes which definitively established that the clouds were sulfuric acid, the atmosphere was largely carbon dioxide, and that due to the resulting greenhouse effect the temperature at the planet's dry and barren surface was nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit (480°C). As a result, this is now a DeadHorseTrope used only by authors deliberately harking back to the old days, or by in works involving [[{{Main/Terraform}} terraforming]].

In the 1960s, the planet was visited by unmanned probes which definitively established that the clouds were sulfuric acid, the atmosphere was largely carbon dioxide, and that due to the resulting greenhouse effect the temperature at the planet's dry and barren surface was nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit (480°C). As a result, this is now a DeadHorseTrope used only by authors deliberately harking back to the old days.

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* ''FanFic/CoreLine'': One of the various reality changes done by the Vanishing was the transformation of Venus into a jungle planet out of pulp fiction, inhabited by characters from the same... and a hard-core DeathWorld nasty enough that any kind of NatureHero that lives there (well away from civilization) is astonishingly superhuman.

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* ''FanFic/CoreLine'': One of the various reality changes done by The Vanishing was the transformation of Venus into a jungle planet out of (and inhabited by) pulp fiction... and which is a hard-core DeathWorld nasty enough that any kind of NatureHero that lives there (well away from civilization) is astonishingly superhuman.
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[[http://www.universetoday.com/23651/venus-possibly-had-continents-oceans/ Some new evidence]] suggests, however, that Venus ''did'' once have water, but then something went wrong (most likely involving its volcanic system), creating a runaway greenhouse effect, and as a result, the oceans either boiled away or were superseded by lava long before they could.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein: In ''Literature/SpaceCadet'' Venus is a humid, swampy jungle.

In the early days of science fiction, the one thing most people knew about the planet UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} was that it has permanent cloud cover over its entire surface. This led to many depictions of Venus as a planet where it rains a lot, often to the point where it's a SingleBiomePlanet covered in oceans, or at least swamps or rainforests.

In the 1960s, the planet was visited by unmanned probes which definitively established that the clouds were sulfuric acid, the atmosphere was largely carbon dioxide, and that due to the resulting greenhouse effect the temperature at the planet's dry and barren surface was nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit. As a result, this is now a DeadHorseTrope used only by authors deliberately harking back to the old days.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Venus is depicted as a lush, tropical swamp with red water and purple and blue plants during Leela's dream in "The Sting".

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