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Virgin PlanetPoul Anderson

Virgin Planet

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Virgin Planet is a male fantasy gone wild. Explorer Davis Bertram lands on a planet full of beautiful women. The women are the descendants of a few hundred survivors of a crashed colony ship full of women. Bertram quickly finds paradise to be a deathtrap. The colony has developed a system of parthenogenesis (similar to human cloning) by which they can propagate the species. But none of them has ever seen a man. Nor, since the planet--named Atlantis--has no mammals, do they have any idea what a human male might be like. (The largest species on Atlantis are huge flightless birds; but birds…

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2000
    Baen · 384 pages · 9780671319441
  • Other · English · 1973
    Warner Books · 159 pages · 9780446754620
  • Other · English · 1973
    Warner Books Inc (Mm) · 165 pages · 9780446883344
FictionMenScience fictionSexualityRelations with lesbiansWomenAmerican Science fictionFiction, science fiction, general