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Original Title:	Venus Plus X
ISBN:	0375703748 (ISBN13: 9780375703744)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1961)

Venus Plus X

Theodore Sturgeon

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 1731 Users | 112 Reviews

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Title	:	Venus Plus X
Author	:	Theodore Sturgeon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	October 5th 1999 by Vintage (first published 1960)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on 61 North 34th Street and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Here, violence is a vague and improbable notion. Technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation, pollution, even time and space. But there is a change Charlie finds even more shocking: gender is a thing of the past. Venus Plus X is Theodore Sturgeon's brilliant evocation of a civilization for whom tensions between male and female and the human preoccupation with sex no longer exist.

As Charlie Johns explores Ledom and its people, he finds that the human precepts he holds dear are profane in this new world. But has Charlie learned all there is to know about this advanced society? And why are the Ledom so intent on gaining Charlie's approval? Unsettling, compelling, and no less than visionary, here is science fiction at its boldest: a novel whose wisdom and lyricism make it one of the most original and insightful speculations on gender ever produced.

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brilliant book in it's day. probably a bit dated now.

Actually pretty good, a fine exercise in designing a utopia (of a sort) based on a few key factors. The alternation with present-ish day characters to illustrate the issues at hand was actually kind of artful. Elements of that were very dated of course, but I think that actually suits the gender-equality topic. The ending really lagged for me though, the necessity of digging up the fatal flaw being pretty weak, as it wasn't a very impressive or satisfying secret, and didn't seem to quite work

This is, by any standard, a novel of ideas that pushes the boundaries of what was acceptable in old-style pulp sf. The central premise (a very unlikely one, it must be said) is that someone with a lot of wealth and influence creates a model society (Ledom, get it?) in secret. Ledom keeps the outside world at bay thanks to super-science, like many a Utopia before it. But Sturgeon's basic premise is radical to say the least - that if we eliminate sexual difference by making everyone hermaphrodite,

While I'm sure it was ground-breaking when it was published, I personally don't feel it's stood the test of time. About halfway through I began skimming the chapters, more to get a sense of what the final 'twist' would be, than to really follow the plot. A few late chapters detailing the nature of the hermaphrodite race caught my attention, and are probably the only reason I would recommend picking this one up.

Science fiction is often used as a lens to look at the world we live in. This is a fantastic lens. There's the obligate sci-fi gizmos and gadgets, and a time machine... Sort of. As the plot moves on, the gadgets become trivial and the wizard of oz curtain is slowly pulled back. For a book written in the sixties, the lens is hauntingly accurate, and this was a beautiful work. Left me feeling hollow and hopeful, about the world we live in, compared to the world we could live in, and detailing how

Very thought provoking and ahead of its time. It started as a shorter version published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine copyright 1958, then the full version copyright 1960. It must have been written between 6-7 years before the first hints of the sexual revolution in the mid-1960's. It is not a spoiler to say that this is about gender roles and identity. Pretty clear from the Title, I'd say. I enjoyed the several surprises in the plot, about the nature of the place and time where the

Sturgeon is a skilled writer and he has lots of interesting ideas. The problem with this book is its lack of plot. Nothing really happens until the last 40 pages or so. We just get a description of Ledom and some musings on gender issues. It would have been better if he actually put together a story around them.