We Open on Venus

Christopher Stasheff

Ballantine Books, 1994 - Fiction - 347 pages

pany, a renegade theatre troupe, was run off of Earth, so they set their sites on New Venus. The name sounded good, but life on the planet was thoroughly regulated by Amalgamated Petroleum--where even the air and water came at a high cost. Enter the Star Company, with its incendiary mix of veteran troupers, innocent ingenues, and volatile prima donnas. When Amalgamated approved a production of MACBETH, little did anybody imagine how much trouble those three witches would stir up!

What people are saying

Review: We Open on Venus (Starship Troupers #2)

User Review  - Lindsey Duncan - Goodreads

This is the second volume of Stasheff's Starship Troupers - actors in space! - and it is just as enjoyable as the first, though the author's particular style does show up more distinctly. (So I won't ...

Review: We Open on Venus (Starship Troupers #2)

User Review  - Leela4 - Goodreads

I strongly dislike the writing style, and I frequently just don't get the characters. Nevertheless, actors and theatre techs will particularly enjoy it starting from chapter 14.

About the author

Science fiction/fantasy writer Christopher Stasheff was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1944. He received a BA and a MA in Speech and Broadcasting from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Theater from the University of Nebraska. He taught theater at Montclair State University in New Jersey before leaving to become a full-time author. He writes the following series: Warlock, Star Troupers, Rogue Wizard, and Wizard in Rhyme. He currently lives in Portales, New Mexico and teaches radio and television at Eastern New Mexico University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: We Open on Venus; Book 2 of Starship troupers, Christopher Stasheff; Stasheff, Christopher
• Author: Christopher Stasheff
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1994
• ISBN: 0345368916, 9780345368911
• Length: 347 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / General