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Venus Plus X
Venus Plus X
Author: Theodore Sturgeon
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. ...  more » 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.
ISBN-13: 9780312944476
ISBN-10: 0312944470
Publication Date: 7/1984
Pages: 215
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Publisher: St Martins Pr
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Charlie Johns is snatched by the Ledom from 20th century America to a futuristic unisex Eden with no Adms or Eves. But this Eden also has a serpent.
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Typical 1970s science fiction using social commentary to tell the story.
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Definately a psycadelic bent to the book.

"Meet a plausable, provocative, frightening, new species! The Ledom had made a world without war, without fear - a world in which each individual was free to love, to create, to explore... The Ledom, a gentle and kindly new race, made their twentieth-century guest, Charlie Johns, welcome to their paradise. Charlie thought he was in heaven. But then he found out just where - and when - he was... and Eden turned into a nightmare!"

"The most way out story Theodore Sturgeon has ever written."

Published by: Pyramid books (c) 1960 - 1971 edition


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