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Virgin Planet
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780446754620
ISBN: 0446754625
Label: Warner Books
Manufacturer: Warner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 159
Publication Date: January 01, 1973
Publisher: Warner Books
Studio: Warner Books
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not worth the money just for the historical perspective
The first of the two stories is amusing in its humor and interesting from an historical point of view. As soon as the reader gets past the first chapter you start to notice subtle incongruencies, this because the original story was written in 1959. It offers some insights into what was considered to be acceptable and normal at the time in Sci-FI as a genre and in America as a whole. Many of the comments and assumptions the author makes would be considered blatantly chauvinistic and insulting to ... Read More
Rating:  - Not bad
Anderson represents the old Amazon's myth and builds a classical fantasy novel,with battles,blood and angry women.Good reading,but not necessary
Rating:  - Everyone is female!
Wouldn't you want to land on a planet where everyone is female? Well, that is what our hero gets to do. He has plenty of problems once he gets there though. Apparently a colony ship with an all-female complement went off course and landed on an uncharted planet. (A feature of this line of Anderson stories is the "trepidation vortex" which can do just that.) The ship's doctor developed a method of cloning the women thus creating a population of identical copies from maybe 50 individuals. ... Read More
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