The author paul preusss borrows heavily from an arthur c clarke short story called breaking strain and the rest of the stories in the venus prime series similarly borrow from clarkes fiction the idea behind clarkes original stories was to imagine human life on venus and in writi. Its an expansion of breaking strain a 1949 story by arthur c clarke and the first in a series of six volumes by preuss featuring the mysterious sparta whose memories of her own origin are unclear and unreliable and gets mixed up with a very weird plot involving the transport of a first edition of seven pillars of wisdomto the planet venus. Arthur c clarkes venus prime volume 1 breaking strain paul preuss isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. This novel is one of a series of books inspired by and as a homage to arthur c clarkes short stories utilizing the short stories as a base to connect them into one singular coherent storyline this first novel in the series is particularly inspired by two different adaptations of the same story clarkes original novella breaking strain and a canceled hypertextinteractive text computer game based on the novella that the writer of this novel had worked on as a scriptwriter . Arthur c clarkes venus prime breaking strain paul preuss leave a reply phewwhat a title so why clarkes name well to my knowledge clarke had nothing to do with writing these novels paul preuss wrote these novels based on characters from some short stories written by arthur c clarke the story is about a beautiful mysterious woman who has been bio engineered with no