Margot has not taken well to her new home on Venus: she is frail, quiet, and pale, as if “the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.” Lately, she has begun to panic at the touch of water.Īs the two-hour summer approaches, the schoolchildren read and write short stories about the sun. Unlike most of the children, Margot lived on Earth until five years ago, so while they all speculate about what the sun is like, Margot can actually remember quite well.
After seven long years, today is the day that scientists predict the sun will make its brief appearance indeed, the rain seems to be slowing. When the story opens, a group of nine-year-old children are gathered excitedly by the window of their underground classroom. Humans live underground in a network of tunnels, eagerly awaiting the very brief summer. The planet is covered with thick jungles and unruly weeds, perpetually caught in a cycle of growth and destruction. The rest of the time, it rains-all day, every day. Venus has a peculiar climate: every seven years, the sun comes out for just two hours. “All Summer in a Day” takes place on the planet Venus, a generation after the first colonists from Earth arrived there.
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