"The Sky People" by S. M. Stirling. Mind-candy!
The first probes to Venus and Mars in 1962
revealed that we live in Edgar Rice Burroughs's
solar system, which rather re-directs the Cold War.
Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early
1960's, about the time the first interplanetary
probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus
were teeming with lifeâeven human life. At that
point, the "Space Race" became the central
preoccupation of the great powers of the world.
Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to
Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus,
near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in
a countryside swarming with sabertooths and
dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of
American and allied scientist-adventurers.
<http://www.powells.com/biblio/0765353768?&PID=27627>Link
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