What appeared to be a blimp on the radar was not a huge manatee coasting the idyllic currents of Venus, but a new alien life-form! One far more advanced than their Earthbound guests, but also naive to the ways of crony capitalism. As exploration turns to conservation, can Earth’s finest scientists protect another world from falling to exploitation?

— "Venus Prime" by Paul Preuss & Arthur C. Clarke

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