Read the excerpt from “All Summer in a Day.”

It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again.

It outlines the different types of rain on Venus.

It helps explain why only a few families live on Venus.

It shows how much the weather shapes life on Venus.

It reveals why there is so little vegetation on Venus.