Jovian Sky And Surface

In Poul Anderson's Three Worlds To Conquer and "Hunters of the Sky Cave," Jupiter has a solid surface.

In "Hunters...," Flandry, descending, sees:

a glowing, multi-colored planetary surface;

moving dark storms bigger than Terra;

thousand-kilometer-long clouds of ammonia crystals;

the blue and green streaks of free radicals;

lightning in a purple sky;

sodium explosions;

allotropic ice crumbled, then lifted, by methane ocean waves flattened by pressure and gravity;

a vast plain where organisms neither plant nor animal lash at hundred-meter-long flying ribbons;

colored, singing bubbles on a red wind;

an immense, blue, low-built, artificial structure;

flashing white energy;

Ymirites flying, or rather swimming, in the dense atmosphere, some on their own wings, others in gliders.

He also feels and hears titanic winds.

The Game Of Empire: Some Loose Ends

One more divine name: Tangaroa Zachary. Gatto and Tangaroa converse by eidophone.

Half a millennium after the events of "Day of Burning," Merseia still requires forcefield protection from the radiation of the supernova, Valenderay: a permanent reminder to the Merseians of their former vulnerability and dependency.

The moons of Imhotep are Zoser, Kanofer and Rahotep. In autumn, dead leaves are underfoot in Olga's Landing. In Old Town, Tigery trading caravans arrive from the lowlands. There are crowds, music and savory odors from foodstalls and Winged Smoke houses.

Through the transparent wall of a high Terra-conditioned floor of the Pyramid, Dominic Flandry, Diana Crowfeather, Targovi and Axor see:

scarlet, russet and amber woods;

outside the heated area, boulders, crags, native plants, frozen rivulets, sunlit snow-covered mountains and green glaciers.