[Sep. 21, 1960] If you can't beat em... (Theodore Sturgeon's Venus Plus X)

Ted Sturgeon wrote a book about sex.

It appears that Sturgeon has always wanted to write "a decent book about sex,"--how it affects our society, not the act itself. At least, that's what Sturgeon says in the post-script of his strange new novel, Venus Plus X. Well, it is a decent book (pun intended), and Sturgeon has a lot to say about sex and the relations of the genders in its 160 pages. Some of it is told, some of it is shown; the end result is a fiction-buffered sermon not unlike the kind Heinlein likes to concoct.

(see the rest at Galactic Journey!)