Theodore Sturgeon: 30 books
by Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The novel that began as a radio hoax, Theodore Sturgeon’s I, Libertine is a hilarious erotic romp through the royal boudoirs of eighteenth-century London
Inspired by a notorious radio hoax in the mid-1950s, popular radio host and prankster Jean Shepherd exhorted his faithful listeners to...
The Ultimate Egoist
Volume I: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
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...
Case and the Dreamer
Volume XIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
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...
The Man Who Lost the Sea
Volume X: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
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...
by Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Wondrous, horrifying, achingly human: The best short stories by “one of the greatest writers of science fiction and fantasy who ever lived” (Stephen King).
One of science fiction’s most beloved trailblazers, Hugo and Nebula–Award winning author Theodore Sturgeon wrote novels and short...
by Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
From Hugo and Nebula winner Theodore Sturgeon comes a seeming utopia: a world with only one gender and no poverty, pollution, or war—but at what cost?
Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on Earth and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Here, violence is a vague and improbable...
Microcosmic God
Volume II: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
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...
Killdozer!
Volume III: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Killdozer! is the third volume of a series of the complete short stories from Theodore Sturgeon's career. It contains a few of his best and most famous short stories: "Medusa", "Killdozer!" and "Mewhu's Jet." The series editor Paul Williams has dug into the background...
The Nail and the Oracle
Volume XI: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This book contains ten major stories by the master of science fiction, fantasy, and horror written during the 1960s. The controversial “If All Men We re Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?” shows the author’s technique of “ask the next question” used in a way that shatters social...
Slow Sculpture
Volume XII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
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...
A Saucer of Loneliness
Volume VII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
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,"...
Bright Segment
Volume VIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
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, Sturgeon's...
The Perfect Host
Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
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"...
by Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A desperate boy escapes his abusive home by joining a carnival and is drawn into a dark conspiracy in this tale by “a master storyteller” (Kurt Vonnegut).
Though only eight years old, little Horton “Horty” Bluett has known a lifetime of sadness. Tormented and abused by his adoptive...