” Lucas shook his head. “Well,” he said, “that complicates things. It looked ridiculous, down there all by itself, supporting nothing, contacting nothing, but it had the full complement of bones and muscles. Some weren’t.
“But how about a probe? Something radiation-hardened, a controlling AI—with luck we could just drop it in there and let it report back. It took time, obviously. And Harry popped into the air in front of me. But if in some other prismatic history, Venus had also suffered interplanetary bombardment on that scale, blowi
Join the newsletter to receive news, updates, new products and freebies in your inbox.