Theodore Sturgeon

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.

The Dreaming Jewels

Named one of the Top 40 Horror Books of All Time by the Horror Writers Association

Some of Your Blood

E Pluribus Unicorn

Kurt Vonnegut cites Theodore Sturgeon as the inspiration for his character Kilgore Trout. This volume includes 12 stories from 1953, considered Sturgeon's golden era. Among them are such favorites as the title story, "The Silken-Swift," "A Way of Thinking," "The Dark Room," "The Clinic," and "The World Well Lost," a story known for being very ahead of its time in advocating gay rights.

A Saucer of Loneliness

Godbody

Gathers seventeen stories including "Shottle Bop," "Yesterday Was Monday," "Completely Automatic," "Poker Face," "Nightmare Island," "The Purple Light," and "The Golden Egg"

Microcosmic God

Poul Anderson

H. G. Wells

Robert A. Heinlein

Cyril M. Kornbluth

John W. Campbell

Lester del Rey

Jack Williamson

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Volume IIA

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame

It came from outer space: the Medusa, the inter-galactic conqueror, a hive-like being with a consuming appetite to absorb all life in the universe.  Now the Medusa had reached Earth.  It had taken control of its first human being.  Through him it would possess all his fellows.

The Cosmic Rape

A remarkable anthology of short fiction by the award-winning late author of More Than Human includes a wide range of classic science fiction and fantasy tales, including "Thunder and Roses," "The Man Who Lost the Sea," and "Slow Sculpture," winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Original. 12,500 first printing.

Selected Stories

Gathers fifteen stories, including "Medusa," "Ghost of a Chance," "Abreaction," "Poor Yorick," "The Chromium Helmet," and Mewhu's Jet"

Killdozer!

It came from outer space . . . The Medusa, the intergalactic conqueror, a hive-like being with a consuming appetite to absorb all life in the universe. Now the Medusa had reached Earth. It had taken control of its first human being. Through him it would possess all his fellows. But there was one thing the Medusa had not reckoned on. One tiny factor in the complex human equation. A desperate last chance for the stubborn and independent creature known as Man to save himself . . .

To Marry Medusa

Cristalli sognanti

The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (Sturgeon, Theodore. Short Stories, V. 1.)

Ultimate Egoist: Volume I

Aliens 4

Beyond

A Way Home

To Here and the Easel

By the winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards, this latest volume finds Theodore Sturgeon in fine form as he gains recognition for the first time as a literary short story writer. Written between 1957 and 1960, when Sturgeon and his family lived in both America and Grenada, finally settling in Woodstock, New York, these stories reflect his increasing preference for psychology over ray guns. Stories such as "The Man Who Told Lies," "A Touch of Strange," and "It Opens the Sky" show influences as diverse as William Faulkner and John Dos Passos. Always in touch with the zeitgeist, Sturgeon takes on the Russian Sputnik launches of 1957 with "The Man Who Lost the Sea," switching the scene to Mars and injecting his trademark mordancy and vivid wordplay into the proceedings. These mature stories also don't stint on the scares, as "The Graveyard Reader"—one of Boris Karloff's favorite stories—shows. Acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem's foreword neatly summarizes Sturgeon's considerable achievement here.

Theodore Sturgeon

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