elite who have gained their power through the control of both resources and information, are illiterate or close to it), mosques dotting the American landscape (accompanied unfortunately by a rabid xenophobia that I hadn’t anticipated), deepening political divisions, and diminishing expectations is rushing upon us more quickly than I envisioned, and I am not at all convinced that it will lead to a terraforming project like the one I imagined or indeed to a promising or sustainable future.
But I can hope.
I was sure that I was finished with the Venus terraforming project and also any fiction even slightly related to the trilogy once Child of Venus was written (I estimate that the published novels contain some 750,000 words), but as I’ve said, stories will get themselves written however they can. The stories in this book were not part of the Venus trilogy, but were written after I had finished Child of Venus, when characters and stories existing in the interstices of the novels began to speak to me. These are stories that can stand alone outside that context, but I hope that they will allow some readers to revisit those books and perhaps others to discover them.
―Pamela Sargent
Albany, New York
December 30, 2011
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