"All Summer in a Day" concerns a classroom of elementary-age children living on a retro-futuristic depiction of the planet Venus (which was once argued to be a wet, swampy planet covered in jungles). Weather conditions on Venus cause it to be overcast and raining constantly, with the exception of a period of a few hours every seven years, where the rain stops, the clouds part, and the sun comes out. The children in this story were too young to remember the last time the sun appeared, so this is the first time they have been able to actively understand and anticipate its appearance.
An outsider among the children is Margot, who recently moved to Venus from Earth, and knows exactly what the sun is like because she was able to experience it every day. Margot imagines that the other children, in their dreams, remember the sun being like a yellow crayon or gold. When attempting to describe it to them, she calls it a penny, or a fire in a stove.
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