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ISBN: 0440193605
Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Publisher: Dell; 1st Printing edition (1979)
Language: English
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Venus Plus X is a science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, published in 1960. David Pringle included it in his book Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels. Charlie Johns wakes up in Ledom (model backwards), a world of gender-neutral.

Venus Plus X is a science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, published in 1960. Charlie Johns wakes up in Ledom (model backwards), a world of gender-neutral people. He believes that he has been transported to the future, and the Ledom tell him that humanity has been destroyed by nuclear war.

Theodore Sturgeon published Venus Plus X in 1960, before much of what would be considered the women’s rights movement. Many science fiction books from this era were well written and visionary but the science has grown stale and modern readers wince at technological incongruities or fail to appreciate a novel idea when written when the reality has occurred; like driving past a reference to a cell phone from 1950.

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Venus Plus X. 252 printed pages. From Hugo and Nebula winner Theodore Sturgeon comes a seeming utopia: a world with only one gender and no poverty, pollution, or war-but at what cost?

Venus Plus X. From Hugo and Nebula winner Theodore Sturgeon comes a seeming utopia: a world with only one gender and no poverty, pollution, or war-but at what cost? Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on Earth and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Here, violence is a vague and improbable notion.

x. x. We've added this item to your cart. 5 5 Author: Theodore Sturgeon Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Download books offline, listen to several books simultaneously, switch to kids mode, or try out a book that you never thought you would. Discover the best book experience you'd ever have. Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home and delivered to the future world of Ledom, where violence is a vague, improbable notion and technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation, pollution, and even time and space.

Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on 61 North 34th Street and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. 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

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.

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Vobei

Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon is a fanciful tale of a present day human transported to a distant future where traditional homo sapiens are extinct and supplanted by a hermaphroditic humanoid species. This future race lives a rather Utopian lifestyle. The normal human, Charlie is asked to pass some sort of judgment on their lifestyle (for unknown reasons). As he learns more of this idyllic, peaceful society, his suspicions grow that something is amiss.

Sturgeon never attempts to explain time travel, but focuses on two technological achievements: a matter manipulator that uses almost no energy as well as a device for instantaneous learning. Much of the story concerns the psychological response to a genderless society that appears to presage the coming changes as a result of both birth control and the development of more white collar type jobs in society at the time of the writing (1960). Sturgeon also intersperses vignettes of a typical suburban set of couples, but with gender mashing. While a surprise plot twist at the end was totally unexpected, Sturgeon does a nice job of exploring gender roles from a nature versus nurture perspective.

Nenayally

I never thought I would read a poor story by Theodore Sturgeon. He seems to have saved his poorest ideas for this story. Good that they are all piled up in one place.

Long, long disquisitions on utopia. Nothing happens for a very large section of the book. The when something actually happens, we are tricked rather badly about what it is. A bit like, "Oh, the whole last season was a dream."

Not reccomended. Re-read "More Than Human". We did.

Vertokini

Loved it, love Theodore Sturgeon. An interesting look at Religion, Sex and Gender. All the more impressive considering it was published in 1960 - I’m surprised Sturgeon wasn’t chased out of the country or burned at the stake for this one. Good Science Fiction.

lets go baby

Published in 1960, Venus Plus X is a towering vision of a human destiny that is very close to the truth. That vision is the conscious decision of the human race to utilize medical technology to redefine human sexuality to an androgynous norm. Today, this is one of the emerging concepts of the Transhuman movement. Although Sturgeon wrote this only a few years after the discovery of DNA and long before its role in human heredity was understood, he anticipates and describes how such change can give birth to a vastly improved human society of love, truth, goodness, and beauty.

In time, Venus Plus X will take its well-earned position alongside Martine Rothblatt's Apartheid of Sex (second ed. now titled Transgender to Transhuman) as one of a handful of books showing us the way to a new age of sex and gender freedom for all humanity and the enormous social benefits to be realized. (Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender)

Risa

I first read this amazing book 49 years ago and decided to revisit it now. WOW - from a more mature perspective it really blew me away this time! While some aspects (as slowly revealed throughout the story) may seem revolting, Sturgeon is using that to make a point. He actually acknowledges his debt to Philip Wylie's "The Disappearance", both by having a character mention it and including a reference to it in his Afterword. Humanity has focused too much on the differences between men and women instead of the vastly more numerous similarities and commonalities.

The world of the Ledom created by Theodore Sturgeon is breathtaking, and his description is once again a glorious thing to behold. Highly recommended!

Isha

This is a good book. It is very unlike any other book I've read. It is very interesting. Though the only bad thing about it was that it was a little slow in parts. I also bought other books from Amazon and enjoyed them too. I've only read it once but will read it again. It's a bit of a gender bender, which I thought was good. I would recommend this book to science fiction fans.

Agalen

An early, but interesting exploration of gender roles and the role of genetics in how we view each other and ourselves.

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