ID that SF book # 39875663

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1

Survey tech. crash-lands on a planet populated entirely by women. They reproduce through parthenogenesis, done by machine to keep the planet alive. They think he is a monster, because the Mothers always told stories about Men and our hero isn’t the Doc Savage type. The title I keep remembering is “Amazon Planet,” but Google is of no help, and Amazon even less.

My bet is that the Dope can identify this book in less than 15 minutes.

2

That sounds really familiar - was it a short story? It seems to me I read it in an anthology not too long ago.

3

Nope. Short novel, but definitely a novel.

4

Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson?

5

Bingo!

7 minutes. Not a record, but not bad. Thanks, Cartoonacy.

6

I never heard of it until a few minutes ago, but Google led me to this page, then I looked up the most likely candidates.

7

I have it, and I’ve read it, and that’s the one.