This fourth book of "e;The Right Time"e; futuristic science fiction saga, continues to tell how Humans and Nutopians strive to achieve the "e;Maximum Pleasure"e; of all their endeavors within themselves, communities, cities and nations.
To translate writings, you need a key to the code—and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born .
Johnson knew he was annoying the younger man, who so obviously lived by the regulations in the Colonial Officer’s Manual and lacked the imagination to understand why he was doing this.
Being trapped in the steaming h-l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting one's manners-but anyone abducted, marooned, tricked, kept from tea might well crack under the strain!