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Venus Plus X
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"I have long maintained an ambivalence towards Theodore Sturgeon’s short fiction which shifts from the “silly puppy” variety i.e. “The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast” (1949), to more serious literary experiments that tend to fall short, such as “Slow Sculpture” (1970)… I have had more success with his novels: I have fond but fuzzy memories of More than Human (1951) which I read as a young teen and found The Cosmic Rape (1958) downright terrifying.
Venus Plus X (1960), nominated for the 1961 Hugo and apparently promptly forgotten, is the best Sturgeon novel I have encountered yet. A thought experiment characterized [...]"
"I have long maintained an ambivalence towards Theodore Sturgeon’s short fiction which shifts from the “silly puppy” variety i.e. “The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast” (1949), to more serious literary experiments that tend to fall short, such as “Slow Sculpture” (1970)… I have had more success with his novels: I have fond but fuzzy memories of More than Human (1951) which I read as a young teen and found The Cosmic Rape (1958) downright terrifying.
Venus Plus X (1960), nominated for the 1961 Hugo and apparently promptly forgotten, is the best Sturgeon novel I have encountered yet. A thought experiment characterized [...]"
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Finished Reading
July 11, 2020
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