Venus Plus X (1960)

Book Notes

• 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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