false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170901817m/77879.jpg 77879 6 <div><div>Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life, even human life. At that point, the 'Space Race' became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world.<br><br>Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers.<br><br>But there are flies in this ointment; and not only the Venusian dragonflies, with their yard-wide wings. The biologists studying Venus's life are puzzled by the way it not only resembles that on Earth, but is virtually identical to it. The EastBloc has its own base at Cosmograd, in the highlands to the south, and relations are frosty. And attractive young geologist Cynthia Whitlock seems impervious to Marc's Cajun charm.<br><br>Meanwhile, at the western end of the continent, Teesa of the Cloud Mountain People leads her tribe in a conflict with the Neanderthal-like beastmen who have seized her folk's sacred caves. Then an EastBloc shuttle crashes nearby, and the beastmen acquire new knowledge and AK47's.<br><br>Jamestown sends its long-range blimp to rescue the downed EastBloc cosmonauts, little suspecting that the answer to the jungle planet's mysteries may lie there, among tribal conflicts and traces of a power that made Earth's vaunted science seem as primitive as the tribesfolk's blowguns. As if that weren't enough, there's an enemy agent on board the airship. <br><br>Extravagant and effervescent, <i>The Sky People</i> is alternate-history SF adventure at its best.</div></div> 2042208 2001 The Sky People (Sci Fi Essential Books) total:208|5:23|4:70|3:76|2:29|1:10| 208 691 317 37 3 2 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 24 16:49:54 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 17:07:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 13:09:02 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 10:57:43 -0700 2008 The Sky People starts out with an interesting concept, that Venus and Mars are inhabitable planets and teaming with life. I liked the alternate history view of space exploration by the US and Russians to explore these new worlds in the 1980s . It makes you think about what kind of space exploration ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 20 10:40:08 -0800 2008 Wed May 28 07:23:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 08:48:08 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 21:30:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 04:39:29 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 04:47:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 16:20:29 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 16:33:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 17:28:38 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 17:35:41 -0700 2009
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Basically I was just looking for something not too heavy to read while I sit at the pool.

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