The Sky People The Sky People The Sky People is an alternate history science fiction novel by American writer S. M. Stirling. It was first published by Tor Books in hardcover in November 2006, with a book club edition co-published with the Science Fiction Book Club following in December of the same year. Tor issued paperback, ebook and trade paperback editions in October 2007, April 2010 and May 2010, respectively. Audiobook editions were published by Tantor Media in January 2007. The book takes place on the planet Venus in an alternate solar system where probes from the United States of America and the
Extraterrestrial places in the Cthulhu Mythos the same star cluster as Abbith, Xoth, and Zaoth. In Lin Carter's "The Feaster from the Stars: The History of Yzduggor the Eremite", Ymar is said to orbit the star Algol and to be the homeworld of the Great Old One "Zvilpogghua", an offspring of Tsathoggua (See Algol). Yuggoth (or Iukkoth) is the dwarf planet Pluto. It is home to the Mi-Go, a race of fungi-crustacean of Lovecraft's invention. In Richar A. Lupoff's "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone—March 15, 2337", it alternately appears as an enormous planet that orbits on the rim of the Solar System, coinciding with the hypothetical