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'Case and the Dreamer' brings together Theodore Sturgeon's last
stories, written between 1972 and 1983. They include 'The Country
of Afterward', a sexually explicit story Sturgeon had been unable
to write earlier in his career, and the title story, about an
encounter with a transpatial being that is also a meditation on
love.
The second of thirteen volumes that reprint all Sturgeon's short
fiction covers his prolific output during 1940 and 1941, after
which he suffered five years of writer's block. Showcasing
Sturgeon's early penchant for fantasy, the first six selections
include whimsical ghost stories, such as "Cargo," in which a World
War II munitions freighter is commandeered by invisible,
peace-loving fairies. With the publication of his enduring science
fiction classic, "Microcosmic God," Sturgeon finally found his
voice, combining literate, sharp-edged prose with fascinating
speculative science while recounting the power struggle between a
brilliant scientist, who creates his own miniature race of gadget
makers, and his greedy banker. Every one of the stories here is
entertaining today because of Sturgeon's singular gifts for clever
turns of phrase and compelling narrative. As Samuel R. Delaney
emphasizes in an insightful introduction, Sturgeon was the single
most influential science fiction writer from the 1940s through the
1960s.
Sturgeon's career was at a high point in these years thanks to the
very favourable reaction to his 1953 novel More than Human and to
the short fiction he published in 1953 and thereafter. But this
long-awaited success was obstructed by serious episodes of writer's
block in 1955 and again in 1958. Volume X shows Sturgeon doing some
of his best and most powerful work in major stories like "The Man
Who Lost the Sea," "The Comedian's Children," "A Touch of Strange,"
and "The Graveyard Reader."
Sci-fi master Theodore Sturgeon wrote stories with power and
freshness, and in telling them created a broader understanding of
humanity a legacy for readers and writers to mine for generations.
Along with the title story, the collection includes stories written
between 1953 and 1955, Sturgeons greatest period, with such
favorites as Bulkhead, The Golden Helix, and To Here and the Easel.
This is a collection of fifteen stories by master storyteller
Theodore Sturgeon, written at the very height of his power, between
the years 1955 and 1957. Five of these stories have never before
been in a Sturgeon collection and will be welcomed by his many
fans. Another five are major works, the sort of classic stories
that have made Sturgeon's reputation as one of science fiction's
very best and most beloved writers.
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All alone: an idiot boy, a runaway girl, a severely retarded baby,
and twin girls with a vocabulary of two words between them. Yet
once they are mysteriously drawn together this collection of
misfits becomes something very, very different from the rest of
humanity. This intensely written and moving novel is an
extraordinary vision of humanity's next step.
"The Ultimate Egoist," the first volume of The Complete Stories of
Theodore Sturgeon, contains the late author's earliest work,
written from 1937 to 1940. Although Sturgeon's reach was limited to
the lengths of the short story and novelette, his influence was
strongly felt by even the most original science fiction stylists,
including Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Gene Wolfe, all
contributors of laudatory forewords. The more than forty stories
here showcase Sturgeon's masterful knack with clever, O. Henry-ish
plot twists, sparkling character development, and archetypal "why
didn't I think of that?" story ideas. Early Sturgeon masterpieces
include "It," about the violence done by a creature spontaneously
born from garbage and mud, and "Helix the Cat," about an inventor's
bizarre encounter with a disembodied soul and the cat that saves
it. Sturgeon's unique genius is timelessly entertaining.
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
I was fourteen then. I was sitting in the car waiting for Dad to
come out of the hospital. . . She was hanging out of a window on
the second floor of a near ell of the hospital. Her hair was dank
and stringy, her eyes had mud in them, and her teeth were
beautiful. She was naked, at least to the waist. She was saying
"Mister " and she was saying it to me. The Perfect Host is a dark
and chilling story of madness and possession. Theodore Sturgeon was
one of the most influential genre authors of his time and this
surprising story will show you why.
This volume collects inverviews with Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred
Bester, Frederick Pohl, James Gunn, Fritz Leiber, Hal Clement, and
L. Sprague de Camp.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
The newly expanded version of this classic offers replete with even
more stories from Forrest J Ackerman and his talented friends and
collaborators. Joining such notables as Theodore Sturgeon and A. E.
van Vogt are classic authors Catherine L. Moore, Donald A.
Wollheim, and more.
In this mind-wrenching classic of science fiction, the Hugo and
Nebula Award-winning writer Theodore Sturgeon places an unwitting
humanity on a collision course with an organism of unimaginable
power and immeasurable malevolence.
Until recently, Gurlick was a substandard specimen of Homo
sapiens. But now this craven, seething, barely literate drunk has
ingested a spore that traveled light years before touching down on
our planet. A spore that has in turn ingested Gurlick and turned
him into a host for the Medusa, a hive mind so vast that it
encompasses the life forms of a billion planes -- and is determined
to ingest Earth as well. Crackling with suspense, overflowing with
invention, and startling in its compassion, To Marry Medusa is a
tour de force from one of the great imaginers of the golden age of
speculative fiction.
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards
"One of the masters of modern science fiction."—The Washington Post Book World
Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs away from home and joins a carnival. Performing alongside the fireaters, snakemen and "little people," Horty is accepted. But he is not safe. For when he loses three fingers in an accident and they grow back, it becomes clear that Horty is not like other boys. And it is a difference some people might want to use.
But his difference risks not only his own life but the lives of the outcasts who provided for him, for so many years, with a place to call home. In The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon renders the multiple wounds of loneliness, fear, and persecution with uncanny precision. Vividly drawn, expertly plotted, The Dreaming Jewels is a Sturgeon masterpiece.
"An intensely written novel and very moving novel of love and retribution."—Washington Star
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