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Venus Plus X (Paperback)

by T. Sturgeon (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc; 1st Vintage Books Ed edition (9 Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0375703748
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375703744
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.3 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 768,430 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Charlie Johns travels by time machine to a future world where men and women have been replaced by a unisex species.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A precursor to Storm Constantine's Wraeththu, 11 May 2004
By Ventura Angelo (Brescia, Lombardia Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Venus Plus X (Paperback)
In the far away 1960 SF writer Theodore Sturgeon wrote this intriguing book about a man who finds himself snatched from his own time and projected in a future when an hermaphrodite race (called Ledom) has supplanted humanity. Those Ledom are very sociable people, skilled in biological and social science, and they're rather peculiar: they never sleep (instead sometimes fall in a sort of trance), have two uterus and always procreate twins. The insemination is reciprocal and contemporaneous. They have a device, the cerebrostyle, that allows fast learning connecting a recording machine directly to the brain. No lenghty hours to spend studying over textbooks for them! This novel is of the category "Utopian", which means almost no plot and long expanations, but on the whole it is very interesting. The Ledom are very kind and emphatic, and literally worship children "because it is not conceivable we'll ever obey them". That's a bit weird. The human, Charlie Johns, is very impressed by their charity and compassion, but since the Ledom have snatched him to have a frank appraisal of their society by an average man, they have to tell him a secret of theirs that'll make Charlie revise his judgment. In the last pages there are some plot twists, and we get, finally, to glimpse Ledom society from the inside. A final revelation awaits the reader who patiently waded through descriptions and dissertations. A really worthy read, in my opinion!
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