And then the sky closed, the alien sun disappearing as if a curtain had been drawn across it.

What were they finding up there among those alien suns?

One hand raised high, the other shading his face against the glare of an alien sun.

The alien sun is in fact the planet Venus.

And many - perhaps most - of those alien suns have planets circling them.

Fifty of them, hidden in shadows away from the alien sun.

That alien sun was setting; those enemy stars were popping out in all their incredible number, and the breeze had turned cold.

Do we want to bring them up in a pioneer society with an alien sun in the sky, or on nice, safe, familiar Mars?

A hundred alien suns bake us with their perfect light.

When the alien sun smoldered westward, there were about a score of English dead.