Title: Venus Plus X

Title: Venus Plus X Title Record # 924
Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Date: 1960-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: The Postcript essay contains a bibliography in narrative form of the publications that the author used while researching this story.

Holy Bible Oxford Concordance.
The Human Body and How it Works by Elbert Tokay, Ph. D., Signet (NAL).
The Transients, four parts, by Wm. H. Whyte Jr., Fortune Magazine, 1953.
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, Modern Library (Random House).
Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy, Oxford Medial Pubs., 1937.
Patterns of Culture, Ruth Benedict, Mentor, 1953.
The Disappearance, especially Chapter 13, p. 262, by Philip Wylie, Pocket Books edition, 1958.
Psychoanalysis and Religion by Erich Fromm, Yale University Press, 1950.
Various recent magazine articles by Margaret Mead.
Sex in History, by G. Rattray Taylor, Ballantine, 1960.
Are Clothes Modern? by Bernard Rudofsky, Theobald, 1947. (These last two are the most startling, informative, and thought-provoking books you could pick up.)
Most of the Ledom names are from an article by John R. Pierce (J. J. Coupling), “Science for Art's Sake,” in Astounding Science Fiction for November 1950, in listings of “word” constructions by the use of a table of probabilities and a table of random numbers.
“Ledom” itself comes from a can of my favorite tobacco spelled backwards.

Synopsis: The author writes in the Postscript "It was my aim in writing Venus Plus X a) to write a decent book b) about sex."

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Other Titles

Translations

Serializations

Year	Language	Title
1962^ⓘTranslated by Mário-Henrique Leiria	Portuguese	O homem que vinha do passado
1965	Italian	Venere più X
1970^ⓘTranslated by Dolf Verroen	Dutch	Venus plus x
1973^ⓘTranslated by Tony Westermayr	German	Venus plus X
1978	Portuguese	Vênus Mais X
1980^ⓘTranslated by Jean-Pierre Carasso.	French	Vénus plus X
1985^ⓘ Translated by Sonja Dekanić-Janoski	Serbian	Venera plus iks [as by Teodor Sterdžen]

Year	Title
1961	Venus Plus X (Part 1 of 4)
1961	Venus Plus X (Part 2 of 4)
1961	Venus Plus X (Part 3 of 4)
1961	Venus Plus X (Part 4 of 4)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Finalists	1961 Hugo	Best Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Venus Plus X	1960-09-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Pyramid Books	G544	$0.35^?$: US dollar	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Victor Kalin
New Worlds Science Fiction, #102 January	1961-01-00	ed. John Carnell	Nova Publications Ltd.		2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	128	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Sydney Jordan
New Worlds Science Fiction, #103 February	1961-02-00	ed. John Carnell	Nova Publications Ltd.		2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	128	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Brian Lewis
New Worlds Science Fiction, #104 March	1961-03-00	ed. John Carnell	Nova Publications Ltd.		2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	128	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Brian Lewis
New Worlds Science Fiction, #105 April	1961-04-00	ed. John Carnell	Nova Publications Ltd.		2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	128	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Sydney Jordan
O homem que vinha do passado	1962-00-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Livros do Brasil (Argonauta #67)			152	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Lima de Freitas
Venus Plus X	1962-05-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Pyramid Books	F-732	$0.40^?$: US dollar	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Schoenherr
Venere più X	1965-06-15	Theodore Sturgeon	Casa Editrice La Tribuna (La Bussola SF #2)		Lit 600^?Lit: Italian lira	270	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Herbert H. Pagani
Venus Plus X	1968-03-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Pyramid Books	X-1773	$0.60^?$: US dollar	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gray Morrow
Venus Plus X	1969-03-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Gollancz (Gollancz SF Series (5))	0-575-00227-1	25/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	190	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Venus Plus X	1969-12-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Pyramid Books	T2134	$0.75^?$: US dollar	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ron Walotsky
Venus plus x	1970-00-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Meulenhoff (M=SF #28)	28		189	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Reindert van Briemen
Venus Plus X	1970-03-00	Theodore Sturgeon	The Science Fiction Book Club (UK)	155		190	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Terry James
Venus Plus X	1971-07-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Pyramid Books	T-2552	$0.75^?$: US dollar	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ron Walotsky
Venus Plus X	1971-07-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Pyramid Books	T-2552	C$0.75^?C$: Canadian dollar	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ron Walotsky
Venus Plus X	1972-02-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers	0-552-08860-9	£0.25^?£: UK pound	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Alan Lee
Venere più X	1972-04-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Casa Editrice La Tribuna (Science Fiction Book Club (Italy) #14)		Lit 1,000^?Lit: Italian lira	236	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Attilio Uzzo
Venus plus X	1973-12-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Goldmann (Goldmann Science Fiction #0181)	3-442-23181-7	DM 4.00^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	173	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	F. Jürgen Rogner
Venus Plus X	1976-00-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Gregg Press (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series)	0-8398-2321-5	$8.50^?$: US dollar	xxi+ 160	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Supernova 2	1977-00-00	Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Williamson	Meulenhoff (M=SF #125)	90-290-0995-0		487	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Paul Lehr
Vênus Mais X	1978-00-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Hemus	85-529-4645-9		182	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Paul Lehr
Venus Plus X	1978-06-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Sphere	0-7221-8214-7	£0.85^?£: UK pound	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Peter Elson
Venus Plus X	1979-12-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Dell	0-440-19360-5	$1.95^?$: US dollar	218	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Venus Plus X	1979-12-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Dell	0-440-19360-5	C$1.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	218	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Vénus plus X	1980-05-00	Theodore Sturgeon	J.-C. Lattès^?J.-C. Lattes (Titres SF #26)			250	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Keleck
Venus Plus X	1984-07-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Bluejay Books (Bluejay Illustrated Editions #3)	0-312-94447-0	$7.95^?$: US dollar	215	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Rowena Morrill
Venera plus iks	1985-00-00	Teodor Sterdžen	Prosveta (Kentaur)			208	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Željko Pahek^?Zeljko Pahek
Venere più X	1987-05-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Mondadori (Classici Urania #122)		Lit 4,000^?Lit: Italian lira	192	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Vicente Segrelles
Venus Plus X	1988-05-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Carroll & Graf	0-88184-387-3	$3.95^?$: US dollar	210	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jael
Venus Plus X	1989-06-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Sphere	0-7221-8214-7	£2.50^?£: UK pound	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Fred Gambino
The Dreaming Jewels / The Cosmic Rape / Venus Plus X	1990-07-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Book-of-the-Month Club	80-2874	$15.95^?$: US dollar	217+ 160+ 160	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Theo Rudnak
The Dreaming Jewels / The Cosmic Rape / Venus Plus X	1990-07-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Quality Paperback Book Club		$11.95^?$: US dollar	217+ 160+ 160	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Theo Rudnak
Venus Plus X	1999-10-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Vintage Books	0-375-70374-8	$12.00^?$: US dollar	213	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Kevin Irby
Venus Plus X	2000-10-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Vintage Books	0-375-70374-8	$12.00^?$: US dollar	213	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Kevin Irby
Venere più X	2004-12-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Mondadori (Urania Collezione #23)	23	€4.90^?€: Euro	234	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Franco Brambilla
Venus Plus X	2009-00-00	Theodore Sturgeon	Blackstone Audio				digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel	Kevin Irby
Venus Plus X	2011-09-29	Theodore Sturgeon	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-11012-0	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Venus Plus X	2013-04-30	Theodore Sturgeon	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4532-9543-4	$14.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Venus Plus X	2013-04-30	Theodore Sturgeon	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4804-1047-3	$14.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Mauricio Diaz
The Dreaming Jewels / To Marry Medusa / Venus Plus X	2014-05-29	Theodore Sturgeon	Gollancz (SF Gateway Omnibus)	978-0-575-11715-0	£18.99^?£: UK pound	368	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni

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Reviews

Review by Frederik Pohl (1961) in If, #8 [UK] , reprinted in:
If, January 1961 (1961)
Review by S. E. Cotts (1961) in Amazing Stories, January 1961
Review by Alfred Bester (1961) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1961
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1961) in Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, April 1961
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1969) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1969
Review [French] by Jean-Pierre Andrevon (1976) in Fiction, #269
Review by Bill Glass (1976) in Delap's F & SF Review, September 1976
Review by Charles N. Brown (1977) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Summer 1977
Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1977) in Science Fiction Review, August 1977
Review by Spider Robinson (1980) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1980
Review by Baird Searles (1980) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1980
Review [French] by Michel Ruf (1980) in Fiction, #311
Review by Steve Carper (1984) in Fantasy Review, December 1984
Review by Don D'Ammassa (1985) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #64 January 1985
Review by Baird Searles (1985) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1985
Review by Robert Coulson (1985) in Amazing Stories, March 1985
Review by David Pringle (1985) in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , reprinted in:
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1985)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1986)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1987)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1997)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (2014)
Review by Graham Sleight (2010) in Locus, #595 August 2010
Review by Paul Di Filippo (2015) in The Speculator, (2018)