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Originally Posted by tshiggins
You might want to take a look at S.M. Stirling's two books, The Sky People and In the Court of the Crimson Kings. They postulate that Earth people discovered in the late 19th or early 20th century, that both Mars and Venus were habitable. Earth history more or less followed the same path up through WWII, but the post-war Cold War between the western nations and the U.S.S.R. included a much more significant space-race.
That space race intensified when early probes discovered that not only were the planets inhabited, but Mars, at least, included ruins of a much older civilization with sophisticated biotechnology.
They're pretty good, if not his best work, and I hope he writes another story in the same setting. I know he has at least one short story that I haven't yet read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky_People
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the..._Crimson_Kings
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I've read both of these, thanks.
"Old Mars" and "Old Venus", edited by George R.R. Martin, are pretty good too. They are collections of short stories wherein Mars and Venus are habitable as postulated long ago. Some of the stories are kind of funky and odd, but several from each are very steampunk and well worth the read.