venustians

Updated: May 17, 2025

But, see here, Edmund, with all this inter-atomic energy that you talk about, why in the world didn't you invent something new something that would just knock the Venustians silly, and blow their old planet up if necessary? Automatic arms are pretty good at home, on that unprogressive earth that you have spurned with your heels, but they'll likely be rather small pumpkins on Venus."

Garrett Putman Serviss - A Columbus of Space