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Venus Is a Man's World: A Positronic Book
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781515404279
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Feb 8 2016
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Venus Is a Man's World is William Tenn's incisive satirical science fiction novel exploring gender politics, power, and cultural inversion in a future interplanetary society.
In this sharp and often biting narrative, Tenn imagines a world in which traditional gender roles have been radically altered, exposing the assumptions, hypocrisies, and absurdities embedded within modern social structures. Set against the backdrop of spacefaring civilisation, the novel uses speculative reversal as a tool of critique, placing its characters in a society where expectations of masculinity and authority are destabilised.
Tenn's prose is controlled, ironic, and intellectually agile. Rather than relying on spectacle, the novel advances through dialogue, social observation, and pointed exaggeration. Like his celebrated shorter fiction, Venus Is a Man's World blends comedy with unease, forcing readers to confront cultural norms by viewing them through distorted but recognisable mirrors.
A notable example of mid-twentieth-century social science fiction, the novel remains relevant for its examination of gender, hierarchy, and the shifting definitions of identity in speculative futures.
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