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1) Old Venus
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"This original anthology of all-new stories harkens back to the Golden Age of SF, when science fiction was filled with tales from our own solar system, at a time when no one knew what lay on the surface of our nearest galactic neighbors and speculation ran rampant. And though that old solar system was "disproved" in the 1960s, when space probes showed that the real worlds were very different from those of our imaginations, these linked anthologies...
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In this novel in verse set in a dystopian future, Leah and her younger sister Rachel live on a severely polluted Earth. Each year the government Terra holds a contest for healthy sixteen-year-olds that gives the winners jobs in Venus's Floating City. Leah is ineligible due to her pollution-induced asthma. After Rachel wins entrance to the Floating City, she tricks Terra's medical staff and sends Leah instead to save her life. Once on Venus, Leah is...
3) Seagarden
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"Forced to hide her new-found magic, Myra enrolls in an interplanetary academy exchange program to dig up more about the government's many conspiracies"-- Provided by publisher.