Venus was a fun and intriguing read, BTW.

When I bought the paperback way back in Bicentennial America, I, too, thought it was written by Vonnegut, and, it wasn't until a few years later that I found out (from a friend) that it was actually written by another of my favorite science fiction authors, Philip José Farmer. Just recently I bought the two issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in which it was first published. I loved the lurid artwork on the cover.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.