History Main / VenusIsWet

* Stanley Weinbaum: ''Parasite Planet'' features a variation -- Venus is a TidallyLockedPlanet, one hemisphere a sun-baked desert, the other submerged 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 luxuriant flora and fauna [[EverythingTryingToKillYou hell-bent on eating you]] (yes, even the plants).

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein: In both ''Literature/SpaceCadet'' and ''Literature/BetweenPlanets'', Venus is a humid, swampy jungle. In the former, an attempt to land a RetroRocket on the surface leads to disaster when the rocket topples over in the swampy ground, stranding the protagonists. In ''Between Planets'' the swamps and jungles prove useful for guerilla warfare when resisting TheWarOfEarthlyAggression.

* "Literature/InTheWallsOfEryx", 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 with hostile native aliens. The atmosphere is not human-breathable however and the protagonist mentions having to wear a breathing mask and periodically changing filter cartridges.

* Creator/PoulAnderson
** In "Sister Planet" Venus is an ocean world with no landmasses. In a variation from the norm, it doesn't have a human-breathable atmosphere.

* Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs: The ''Literature/{{Amtor}}'' series depicts Venus ("Amtor" to its inhabitants) as an oceanic world with a tropical climate.

* Creator/CSLewis: In ''Literature/{{Perelandra}}'', Venus is an ocean world where the only piece of dry land is a mountain emerging from the depths and all the inhabitants live on enormous rafts of matted plant life.
* Creator/HPLovecraft: "Literature/InTheWallsOfEryx", 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 with hostile native aliens. The atmosphere is not human-breathable however and the protagonist mentions having to wear a breathing mask and periodically changing filter cartridges.
* C. L. Moore's ''Literature/NorthwestSmith'' stories depict Venus as dark and swampy.

* In Creator/FrederikPohl and C. M. Kornbluth's ''Literature/TheSpaceMerchants'', Venus is portrayed as a world of "verdant valleys, crystal lakes, brilliant mountain vistas"... in Fowler Schocken advertising artists' impressions of what it ''might'' look like after decades of terraforming. In the present, Venus is devoid of water or a breathable atmosphere.

* ''Literature/{{Radiance}}'' by Catherynne M Valente is an homage to inter-war science fiction in which all of the worlds of the solar system are inhabited by complex life and at least moderately hospitable to humans. Venus, where many of the key events of the novel take place, is depicted as a wet world of marshes, lakes, and seas, but Neptune is the novel's out-and-out waterworld with no land at all.
* Creator/CarlSagan in ''Series/{{Cosmos}}'' lists the theories about how Venus could be before spacecrafts found the hot, hard, facts. Among others, besides the lush world already mentioned, was that the planet was covered in a global ocean where part of the carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere would have dissolved. In other words, a sparkling water sea.

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* Downplayed in ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. While Venus has been terraformed to the point where people can live there, the surface is still a vast desert. However, numerous floating islands composed of tropical plants were constructed and served as both a method for introducing oxygen and a home for the colonists. Which, incidentally, is the most realistic way Venus could be colonized.

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

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** "All Summer in a Day" (published in 1954) is set in a colony on Venus, where it rains continually and the sun comes out for only an hour once every seven years.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein: In both ''Literature/SpaceCadet'' and ''Literature/BetweenPlanets'' Venus is a humid, swampy jungle. In the former, an attempt to land a RetroRocket on the surface leads to disaster when the rocket topples over in the swampy ground, stranding the protagonists. In ''Between Planets'' the swamps and jungles prove useful for guerilla warfare when resisting TheWarOfEarthlyAggression.

* Creator/CSLewis: In ''Literature/{{Perelandra}}'' Venus is an ocean world where the only piece of dry land is a mountain emerging from the depths and all the inhabitants live on enormous rafts of matted plant life.

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* ''Webcomic/AMiracleOfScience'' puts a different spin on the trope, giving Venus a CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain and CityNoir vibe and blaming the constant rain on a side effect of the terraforming process.

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* Downplayed in ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. While Venus has been terraformed to the point where people can live there, the surface is still a vast desert. However, numerous floating islands composed of tropical plants were constructed and serve as both a method for introducing oxygen and home for the colonists. Which, incidentally, is the most realistic way Venus could be colonized.

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* In ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'' Venus was once inhabited by an aquatic species, but when the climate began changing to uninhabitable levels, they left to find a new home. They tried Earth first, but found it too dangerous. However, those that were left behind on Earth when the rest left are the ancestors of [[spoiler:[[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merfolk.]]]]

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-->They had spent months searching for the culprits with 'copters and amphibious-tanks and orbital platforms; all the technology of Terra useless against an enemy that hid in the swamps and jungles. Eventually Spacefleet had defoliated everything in a twenty-mile radius around the New Earth colony, and that had worked well enough until the never-ending rains turned the ground into a quagmire infested with bloodworms and mudsucker eels.

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* ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'' is an early aversion, made during a time when this trope was generally the rule. While Venus is still described as having life, it is also shown to be inhospitably hot, with an atmosphere toxic to humans.

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** ''Literature/LuckyStarrAndTheOceansOfVenus'': Published in 1954, Venus is portrayed as an [[SingleBiomePlanet ocean planet]] with seas and kelp (and domed [[UnderwaterCity underwater cities]]). During the 1978 republishing, Dr Asimov includes a foreword explaining how ScienceMarchesOn, including the 1962 Mariner II probe and 1964 radio telescopes, which established that Venus was too hot to contain liquid water, and had a day longer than a year.
** "Literature/TheWateryPlace": The irascible sheriff chosen for FirstContact is annoyed by these foreigners from "[[TitleDrop the watery place]]", and tells them to get out since nobody wants to be bothered by them. So they arrange for Earth to be forever isolated. He thought they said {{UsefulNotes/Venice}}!

* Creator/HenryKuttner: In "Clash by Night" and ''Fury'', Venus is an ocean world where the landmasses are dominated by uninhabitable jungle, forcing the colonists from Earth to live in underwater cities.

* ''Literature/LastAndFirstMen'' depicts Venus as an ocean world with fierce storms and torrential rains, covered in thick banks of clouds, stewing in temperatures so high that only the poles are just barely habitable to the Fifth Men and home to its own sort of aquatic lifeforms; as part of their terraforming process, the Fifth Men also seed it with island-sized masses of floating marine plants.. However, the atmosphere lacks oxygen until it's terraformed by the Fifth Men, [[HostileTerraforming regrettably wiping out the natives]]. The Seventh Men are engineered with wings to fly over the churning seas several millennia after the air becomes breathable to Terran life.

* Stanley Weinbaum: ''Parasite Planet'' features a variation -- Venus is a TidallyLockedPlanet, one hemisphere a sun-baked desert, the other submerged 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).

* ''Literature/{{Radiance}}'' by Catherynne M Valente is an homage to inter-war science fiction in which all of the worlds of the solar system are inhabited by complex life and at least moderately hospitable to humans. Venus, where many of the key events of the novel take place, is depicted as a wet world of marshes, lakes, and sea, but Neptune is the novel's out-and-out waterworld with no land at all.

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* In Leaving Earth 1956 - 1976, it is possible to explore Venus and reveal a world like this. Or you could find it to be as hot, crushing, and inhospitable as the Venus we know (and love?). This game is focused on the space race, and to recapture the fact we didn't know the truth about these worlds before sending probes there--both realistic and theoretical possible options exist in game and the true nature of each planet is random from those.
* In ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'', Venus is more diverse than other examples. While the large area around the equator is sweltering jungle, further north or south things become more temperate. Closer to the Rings of Winter, its very similar to North America
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' and its sci-fi spinoff ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'' are both set in a solar system loosely resembling ours, though filtered through a very pulpy ScienceFantasy lens. The second planet from their sun, Castrovel, is therefore a throwback to these older portrayals of Venus, a [[JungleJapes jungle world]] inhabited by a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe beautiful]] and [[LadyLand matriarchal]] race of psychic [[HumanAliens humanoids]] called the lashunta. Castrovel is also [[AlienFairFolk the original home]] of the elves.
* In ''TabletopGame/BuckRogersXXVC'', a terraformed Venus is a lush, swampy jungle with frequent rain. However, like the actual planet, this liquid is not water, but ''acid'', with the genetically-engineered "native" life all adapted to these conditions.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'', Venus ''was'' once the 900-degree world that we know, but the Traveler helped humanity {{terraform}} it, and now it's a wet drippy jungle world.
* In the arcade game ''[[VideoGame/XaindSleena Solar Warrior]]'', Venus is a [[SingleBiomePlanet jungle world]] with big insects, carnivore flowers, and where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou.
* Downplayed example in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}''. Venus had been partially terraformed by Orokin {{Precursors}} in the distant past, but rather than turning it into a lush jungle they only managed to cool it off, turning vast segments of the planet into frozen wastelands, covered in artificial snow (the snow is not water, but synthetical cooling liquid) and poor in vegetation. These conditions remain only due to the remnant terraforming machines that [[RagnarokProofing managed to last centuries working non-stop]], and without them the planet would presumably return to its natural state as we know it.

** [[spoiler:Following "The New War", the trope is played a bit straighter, as the frozen parts of the Vallis have thawed enough that the area now looks more like a snow covered grassland than a barren Tundra]].

* In ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumansPathOfTheFuron'', Pox claims that Venus used to be lush and sustained life before the Furon Empire turned into a "self-perpetuating inferno." While it is never clarified as to ''why'' they did that (though it can't be hard to guess with [[AxCrazy the Furons]]), the last remaining thing from this time in Venus' history are spore samples from a carnivorous plant species that would be used as ammo for the Venus Human Trap weapon.

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* ''WebOriginal/HarDeshur'' is a {{Speculative Biology}} project that fully runs on old {{Solar System Neighbors}} tropes, but its version of Venus manages to be a subversion in that, like its version of Mars, it is only slightly less of a hellhole than it is in real life. Most life has fled to the skies, while the bottom-dwellers are extreme thermophiles with deep-sea-fish-like adaptations to the immense pressure. Seas and lakes are mentioned as existing, but they are boiling hot and only kept liquid thanks to the extreme air pressure.

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[[http://www.universetoday.com/23651/venus-possibly-had-continents-oceans/ Evidence reported in 2009]] 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 Venus's lack of a magnetic field caused that water to become disassociated into its component hydrogen and oxygen atoms via solar radiation, leaving nothing to prevent a runaway greenhouse effect and as a result, turning Venus into the dry pressure cooker it is today.

* This mock [[http://www.zazzle.com/venus_by_air_poster-228660366756679984 retro-space tourism poster]] from Zazzle Art urges you to ''See Venus by Air!'', because the ground these ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld fly over is rather wet.

As a result, this is now a DeadHorseTrope used only by authors deliberately harking back to the old days, or in works involving {{terraform}}ing. Otherwise, the modern stereotype of Venus is as our friendly neighbourhood DeathWorld.

* ''WebOriginal/HarDeshur'' is a {{Speculative Biology}} project that fully runs on old {{Solar System Neighbors}} tropes, but its version of Venus manages to be a subversion in that, like its version of Mars, is only slightly less of a hellhole than it is in real life. Most life has fled to the skies, while the bottom-dwellers are extreme thermophiles with deep-sea-fish-like adaptations to the immense pressure. Seas and lakes are mentioned as existing, but they are boiling hot and only kept liquid thanks to the extreme air pressure.

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 in works involving {{terraform}}ing. Otherwise, the modern stereotype of Venus is as our friendly neighbourhood DeathWorld.

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 in works involving {{terraform}}ing. Otherwise, the modern stereotype of Venus is as our friendly neighbourhood DeathWorld.

[[http://www.universetoday.com/23651/venus-possibly-had-continents-oceans/ Evidence reported in 2009]] 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 Venus's lack of a magnetic field caused that water to become disassociated into its component hydrogen and oxygen atoms via solar radiation, leaving nothing to prevent a runaway greenhouse effect and as a result, turning Venus into the dry pressure cooker it is today.

* ''Film/20MillionMilesToEarth'' is an early aversion, made during a time when this trope was generally the rule. While Venus is still described as having life, it is also shown to be inhospitably hot, with an atmosphere toxic to humans.

* The Venus in ''VideoGame/MaxBlasterAndDorisDeLightningAgainstTheParrotCreaturesOfVenus'' is a proper pulp-serial [[TheAmazon jungle]], with [[QuicksandSucks random quicksand pools]], snakes [[EverythingTryingToKillYou cunningly disguised as vines]] and BirdPeople natives.

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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 in works involving [[{{Main/Terraform}} terraforming]]. Otherwise, the modern stereotype of Venus is as our friendly neighbourhood DeathWorld.

* ''Literature/TheCosmicExpress'',: Venus is a habitable jungle planet similar to pre-Cenezoic Earth, complete with dinosaurs.

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* In "TabletopGame/MutantChronicles", Venus is more diverse than other examples. While the large area around the equator is sweltering jungle, further north or south things become more temperate. Closer to the Rings of Winter, its very similar to North America

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. In Chakotay's backstory, he took part in a 'pacification' campaign against the native inhabitants of Venus.

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 in works involving [[{{Main/Terraform}} terraforming]].

* ''Fanfic/LXGTempestRewrite'': As per the tradition of classic pulp sci-fi.

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* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. In Chakotay's backstory, he took part in a guerilla war against the native inhabitants of Venus.