{"product_id":"a-visit-to-venus-9781914407222","title":"A Visit to Venus","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): George Hobbs | Noel Ponting | Graham Carter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hobnob Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hobnob Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a result of the remarkable vision and creativity of the Swindon writer George Ewart Hobbs (1883-1946). Hobbs, whose life and works are also explored in \u003cem\u003eA Swindon Wordsmith \u003c\/em\u003e(published in 2019) and \u003cem\u003eA Swindon Radical \u003c\/em\u003e(2021), worked full-time as an engineer with the GWR, for more than half a century, but was still a prolific writer, across a dazzling range of (fiction and nonfiction) subjects. \u003cem\u003eA Visit to Venus \u003c\/em\u003ewas originally serialised in the \u003cem\u003eSwindon Advertiser\u003c\/em\u003e, and although it is not his only work of science fiction, it is the longest and most ambitious, made all the more remarkable by the fact that it was written in 1927, when the genre was in its infancy. With its believable characters and the philosophical and theological questions it raises, \u003cem\u003eA Visit to Venus \u003c\/em\u003esits alongside other quality (but much later) examples of the genre in its purest form, most notably \u003cem\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/em\u003e, boldly dealing with what science fiction is always about in the end: man's solitude. Because this is a story seeking not just what's \u003cem\u003eout there\u003c\/em\u003e, but rather what's \u003cem\u003einside us\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46450118787223,"sku":"9781914407222","price":1131.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781914407222.webp?v=1769149148","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-visit-to-venus-9781914407222","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}