Torso of Venus and a Landscape Torso of Venus and a Landscape Torso of Venus and a Landscape is a sketch by Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. It now resides in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. This drawing was created while van Gogh was staying with his brother in Paris (in 1886-1888), a period during which they did not write any letters to each other. As a result, little is known about the artist during this period except for his still-life paintings and "Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin". In 1887, he sketched this drawing onto a piece of paper with black chalk
Venus Plus X Venus Plus X Venus Plus X is a science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, published in 1960. David Pringle included it in his book "". The protagonist, Charlie Johns, is kidnapped from 20th-century New York City and travels to the future of Earth to Ledom. In Ledom, advanced technology allows the people to end violence, hunger, overpopulation, pollution, and even control time and space. The story explores the change in society when gender has become a thing of the past. Ledom is "a civilization for whom tensions between male and female and the human preoccupation with sex no