Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Paradise
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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The Ledom have made a world without war, without fear -- a world in which each individual is free to love, to create, to explore. This gentle and kindly new race have made their twentieth-century guest, Charlie Johns, welcome to their paradise, where Charlie thinks he is in heaven. But when he finds out where and when he is, all that may change. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780575071407
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Horty Bluett is eight when he runs away from home. He¿d been cruelly punished: Junky, the ugly old toy with the jewel-like eyes, the only thing that really belonged to him, had been deliberately smashed. And that hurt even more than having three fingers accidentally severed. Horty finds a new home among the freaks of a travelling carnival, protected by the beautiful midget, Zena. For Zena knows the truth about Junky and the jewels. She knows that Horty is one of the ¿jewel people¿, and she knows what others would do to him if they found out that the jewels are living, thinking alien crystals from outer space.

Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375703756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Theodore Sturgeon was a genuine American master. Praised, revered, and even envied by the likes of Bradbury, Vonnegut, and King, his short stories contain some of his best work. In "Thunder and Roses," soon after a nuclear Holocaust, a starlet gives one final performance during which she makes an odd request of the few remaining survivors. In perhaps his most praised story, "The Man Who Lost the Sea," a man riffs on memory and experience on the way to the story's powerful conclusion. And in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpiece, "Slow Sculpture," a young woman with a lump in her breast chances upon a strange healer. With unrivaled emotional impact, Theodore Sturgeon's stories are funny, lyrical, surprising, and provoking.

Author: Lahna F. Diskin
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0916732185
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Dr. Lahna F. Diskin examines the life and work of American science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon. Starmont Reader's Guides to Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors 7

Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 037570373X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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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

Author: Stilovsky
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728399041
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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Literature of all kinds plays such an important place in our lives whether it’s biography, classics, crime or poetry. In this non-fiction volume you will find a mine of facts which will fascinate all who love books. Felix Schrödinger and Pyotr Stilovsky have compiled in this, the fifth volume of the series, a compendium of information that will appeal to all who love language and especially those who seek out knowledge for its own sake.

Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583947469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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The second of a planned 10 volumes that will 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 SF 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. Voice found or not, every one of the stories here is readable and 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 SF writer from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375703721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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“A master storyteller certain to fascinate.”—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Up until one minute ago, Gurlick was merely a specimen of Homo sapiens, and a substandard specimen at that. 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—turned him into a host for the Medusa, a hive mind so vast that it encompasses the life forms of a billion planets. A hive mind that is determined to ingest Earth as well. In this mind-wrenching classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novelist Theodore Sturgeon places humanity on a collision course with an organism of unimaginable power and malevolence and reminds us how much we depend on each other, or even on a wretch like Gurlick. 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.

Author: Maura Heaphy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598845063
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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For students, scholars, readers' advisors, and curious SF readers and fans, this guide provides an easy-to-use launch pad for researching and learning more about science fiction writers and their work. Emphasizing the best popular and contemporary authors, this book covers 100 SF writers, providing for each: • a brief biographical sketch, including a quote from theauthor, awards, etc. • a list of the author's major works (including editions and other writings) • research sources-biographies, criticism, research guides, and web sites • In addition, you'll find read-alike lists for selected authors. For anyone wanting to find information on popular SF authors, this should be the first stop.