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Title: Parasite Planet
Author: Stanley G. Weinbaum
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Parasite Planet
by

STANLEY G. WEINBAUM
Part I
Part II
Part III

I
Luckily for "Ham" Hammond it was mid-winter when the mud-spout came. Mid-winter, that is, in the
Venusian sense, which is nothing at all like the conception of the season generally entertained on Earth,
except possibly, by dwellers in the hotter regions of the Amazon basin, or the Congo.

They, perhaps, might form a vague mental picture of winter on Venus by visualizing their hottest summer
days, multiplying the heat, discomfort and unpleasant denizens of the jungle by ten or twelve.

On Venus, as is now well known, the seasons occur alternately in opposite hemispheres, as on the Earth,
but with a very important difference. Here, when North America and Europe swelter in summer, it is
winter in Australia and Cape Colony and Argentina. It is the northern and southern hemispheres which
alternate their seasons.

But on Venus, very strangely, it is the eastern and western hemispheres, because the seasons of Venus
depend, not on inclination to the plane of the ecliptic, but on libration. Venus does not rotate, but keeps