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Plot Summary of Venus
" Van's father, offers a ten million dollar reward to the person who recovers his brother's body from the planet of Venus. Van becomes determined to save his brother's body, both for the reward and the love he had for him while alive. Meanwhile, Fuchs, the astroid miner his father pushed out of business nearly 20 years ago, is back, to try to win the prize as well. Will Van or Fushs get their first? Will Venus destroy them as well?"
Tori , Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Venus
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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Coming of age Yes
Youngster becomes - ruler
Romance Yes
Spying & Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - rescue mission/escape from confinement
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - fighting a personal illness/handicap - search for identity/new understanding
Story involving clones/duplicates? - good clones/duplicates
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Clones Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scientist
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - missing body parts/abilities

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - trader
Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - physically sick

Setting
Terrain - Planet surface, need spacesuit - Space, need spacesuit
Which planet? - Venus
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century)
Spaceship setting: - primative (present, near future) human spaceship - someone is depressurized - futuristic human freighter/transport
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes
Not Earth, in Solar System? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - an average amount of scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of touching personal anatomy - orgies - description of breasts
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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