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More Than Human By Theodore Sturgeon Vintage Released: 1998-12-29 Paperback (192 pages) List Price: $14.00* Lowest New Price: $7.34* Lowest Used Price: $0.97* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: First published in 1953, this most celebrated of Sturgeon's works won the International Fantasy Award. In this genre-bending novel, among the first to have launched science fiction into literature, a group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover that their combined powers render them superhuman. There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts; Janie, who moves things without touching them; and the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience. Separately, they are talented freaks. Together, they may represent the next step in evolution -- or the final chapter in the history of the human race. As they struggle to find whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with suspense, pathos, and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction.

The Perfect Host: Volume V: The Collected Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon) By Theodore Sturgeon North Atlantic Books Released: 1998-10-01 Hardcover (408 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $28.62* Lowest Used Price: $12.97* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The fifth of ten volumes that will reprint all Sturgeon's short fiction covers his prolific output volume contains 15 classics and two previously unpublished stories, including "Quietly." The Perfect Host provides enough of a representative sampling of Sturgeon's "greatest hits" to give the uninitiated a good sense of what all the fuss was about way back when. At the same time it offers a generous selection of alternate takes and rarities, notably several of Sturgeon's best forays into other forms of genre writing, plus previously unreleased cuts and liner notes.

The Ultimate Egoist: Volume I: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon By Theodore Sturgeon North Atlantic Books Released: 2010-11-09 Hardcover (408 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $22.51* Lowest Used Price: $15.59* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: 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.

Selected Stories By Theodore Sturgeon Vintage Released: 2000-10-17 Paperback (448 pages) List Price: $14.00* Lowest New Price: $8.25* Lowest Used Price: $4.45* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: 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.

The Dreaming Jewels By Theodore Sturgeon Vintage Released: 1999-10-05 Paperback (224 pages) List Price: $14.00* Lowest New Price: $6.20* Lowest Used Price: $3.92* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9780375703737 Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Product Description: 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

Case and the Dreamer: Volume XIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon By Theodore Sturgeon North Atlantic Books Released: 2010-09-28 Hardcover (400 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $21.27* Lowest Used Price: $20.65* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: James Blish called him the “finest conscious artist science fiction ever produced.” Kurt Vonnegut based the famous character Kilgore Trout on him. And such luminaries as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Octavia Butler have hailed him as a mentor. Theodore Sturgeon was both a popular favorite and a writer’s writer, carving out a singular place in the literary landscape based on his masterful wordplay, conceptual daring, and narrative drive. Sturgeon’s sardonic sensibility and his skill at interweaving important social issues such as sex—including gay themes—and war into his stories are evident in all of his work, regardless of genre. Case and the Dreamer displays Sturgeon’s gifts at their peak. The book brings together his 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. Several previously unpublished stories are included, as well as his final one, “Grizzly,” a poignant take on the lung disease that killed him two years later. Noted critic and anthologist Paul Williams contextualizes Sturgeon as both man and artist in an illuminating afterword, and the book includes an index to the stories in all thirteen volumes.

Baby Is Three (The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Book 6) By Theodore Sturgeon North Atlantic Books Released: 1999-11-18 Hardcover (424 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $20.20* Lowest Used Price: $3.58* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Baby Is Three is the sixth volume in the series devoted to the complete works of one of science fiction's titans. Like others in the series, this one includes extensive notes and background information on each story by editor Paul Williams. The early 1950s, during which this material was written, was the beginning of Sturgeon's greatest creative period. The title story for this collection was later expanded into the International Fantasy Award winning novel More Than Human. Sturgeon's whimsical, sardonic sense of humor lifts his work out of the mundane realm of genre science fiction. This wide-ranging collection shows precisely why he has been cited as a primary influence by authors as varied as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, and Carl Sagan.

Microcosmic God: Volume II: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon By Theodore Sturgeon North Atlantic Books Released: 2010-11-09 Hardcover (408 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $20.55* Lowest Used Price: $18.99* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: 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.

Slow Sculpture: Volume XII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon By Theodore Sturgeon North Atlantic Books Released: 2009-10-20 Hardcover (312 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $21.92* Lowest Used Price: $14.35* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Theodore Sturgeon was a model for his friend Kurt Vonnegut’s legendary character Kilgore Trout, and his work was an acknowledged influence on important younger writers from Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg to Stephen King and Octavia Butler. His work has long been deeply appreciated for its sardonic sensibility, dazzling wordplay, conceptual brilliance, memorable characters, and unsparing treatment of social issues such as sex, war, and marginalized members of society. Sturgeon also authored several episodes of the original Star Trek TV series and originated the Vulcan phrase “Live long and prosper.” This twelfth volume of North Atlantic’s ambitious series reprinting his complete short stories includes classic works such as the award-winning title story, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1971, as well as “Case and the Dreamer,” a well-crafted tale of an encounter with a trans-spatial being that is also a meditation on love, and “The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff,” a creative exploration of the human ability to achieve self-realization in response to crisis. The book includes a new Foreword, an illuminating section of Story Notes, and a comprehensive index for the entire series.

Thunder and Roses: Volume IV: The Complete Stories of Theordore Sturgeon (The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon) By Theodore Sturgeon North Atlantic Books Released: 1997-11-07 Hardcover (400 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $21.42* Lowest Used Price: $9.23* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 18:08 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Thunder and Roses is the fourth volume in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Included in Thunder and Roses are 15 stories, with major works like "Maturity," "The Professor's Teddy Bear," "A Way Home," and the title story, in addition to two works never published before.