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Bezig met laden... Venus Plus X (1960)door Theodore Sturgeon
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. slow story...great ending! ( ) This is strike 2 for Sturgeon, for me. Only made it about 20 pages in before I felt like I was reading random words put together into sentences. Just kept on finishing paragraphs thinking, "What?" I was interested in what was happening with the aliens, but it was just too much of a task slogging through what seemed like extra just thrown in as filler. Here is a book that I absolutely loved when I first read it (in 1965, when I was a junior in high school). Upon rereading, it shows some ambiguities. On the one hand, it has a really great depiction of a utopia where the ideas are startlingly innovative and thought provoking. This is interspersed with some not very good dystopic depictions of 1950s American social ambiguities that remind me a little bit of Kurt Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House." Still, I give it: geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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, and even time and space. But there is a change that Charlie finds even more shocking: gender is a thing of the past. Venus Plus X is Theodore Sturgeon's brilliant evocation of a civilization in which 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 with the wisdom and lyricism to make it one of the most original and insightful speculations on gender ever produced. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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