Theodore Sturgeon Books In Order

Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon Books In Order

  1. The Ultimate Egoist (1994)
  2. Microcosmic God (1995)
  3. Killdozer! (1996)
  4. Thunder and Roses (1997)
  5. The Perfect Host (1998)
  6. Baby is Three (1999)
  7. A Saucer of Loneliness (2000)
  8. Bright Segment (2002)
  9. And Now the News… (2003)
  10. The Man Who Lost the Sea (2005)
  11. The Nail and the Oracle (2007)
  12. Slow Sculpture (2009)

Novels

  1. The Synthetic Man (1950)
  2. More Than Human (1952)
  3. The Cosmic Rape (1958)
  4. Venus Plus X (1960)
  5. Some of Your Blood (1961)
  6. The Stars Are the Styx (1981)
  7. Godbody (1986)

Omnibus

  1. The Dreaming Jewels / The Cosmic Rape / Venus Plus X (1990)

Collections

  1. Without Sorcery (1948)
  2. Caviar (1955)
  3. A Way Home (1955)
  4. A Touch of Strange (1958)
  5. Aliens 4 (1959)
  6. E Pluribus Unicorn (1959)
  7. Beyond (1960)
  8. Sturgeon in Orbit (1964)
  9. The Joyous Invasions (1965)
  10. Starshine (1966)
  11. To Marry Medusa (1966)
  12. The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon (1972)
  13. To Here and the Easel (1973)
  14. Case and the Dreamer (1974)
  15. Sturgeon Is Alive and Well (1977)
  16. Visions and Venturers (1978)
  17. Maturity (1979)
  18. The Golden Helix (1980)
  19. Alien Cargo (1984)
  20. A Touch of Sturgeon (1987)
  21. Selected Stories (1997)

Chapbooks

  1. Heavy Metal Presents Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human (1979)

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Theodore Sturgeon Books Overview

The Ultimate Egoist

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.

Microcosmic God

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.

Killdozer!

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 of each story, and come up with a lot of interesting lore about Sturgeon. Especially of interest in this volume is the alternative original ending to ‘Mewhu’s Jet.’

Thunder and Roses

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.

The Perfect Host

This volume contains 15 classics and two previously unpublished stories, including ‘Quietly.’ Praise for Theodore Sturgeon: ‘One of the all time masters of the sci fi short story. This…
project to bring many of his classic tales back into print is long overdue.’ Publishers Weekly

Baby is Three

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.

A Saucer of Loneliness

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.

Bright Segment

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 greatest period, with such favorites as Bulkhead, The Golden Helix, and To Here and the Easel.

And Now the News…

Written between 1955 and 1957, the 15 stories in And Now the News…
include five previously uncollected stories along with five well known works, two cowritten with genre legend Robert Heinlein. Spanning his most creative period, these tales show why Sturgeon won every science fiction award given.

The Man Who Lost the Sea

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.

The Nail and the Oracle

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 conventions. When You Care, When You Love offers a prescient vision of the marriage of deep obsessive love and genetic manipulation, written long before actual cloning techniques existed. Runesmith constitutes a rare example of Sturgeon collaborating with a legendary colleague, Harlan Ellison. Included also are two other rarities: two detective stories and a Western that showcase Sturgeon s knack for characterization and action outside his usual genre. Take Care of Joey has been read as an allusion to the complex personal relationship between Sturgeon and Ellison, while It Was Nothing, Really! hilariously skewers the mores of the military industrial complex. As always, these stories demonstrate not only Sturgeon s brilliant wordplay but also his timeliness, with Brown shoes and The Nail and the Oracle standing out as powerful commentaries on the use and abuse of power that might have been written yesterday.

Slow Sculpture

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 final 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.

The Synthetic Man

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards’One of the masters of modern science fiction.’ The Washington Post Book WorldEight 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 fire eaters, 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 StarMade in the United States of America.

More Than Human

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.

Venus Plus X

Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on 61 North 34th Street and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Here, violence is a vague and improbable notion. Technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation, pollution, even time and space. But there is a change Charlie finds even more shocking: gender is a thing of the past. Venus Plus X is Theodore Sturgeon’s brilliant evocation of a civilization for whom tensions between male and female and the human preoccupation with sex no longer exist. As Charlie Johns explores Ledom and its people, he finds that the human precepts he holds dear are profane in this new world. But has Charlie learned all there is to know about this advanced society? And why are the Ledom so intent on gaining Charlie’s approval? Unsettling, compelling, and no less than visionary, here is science fiction at its boldest: a novel whose wisdom and lyricism make it one of the most original and insightful speculations on gender ever produced.

Some of Your Blood

Theodore Sturgeon’s dark and foreboding look at the vampire myth was an instant classic when originally published in 1956. When George Smith is arrested for assaulting a senior officer, a military psychiatrist is assigned to the case. The secret of George’s past is unearthed, and a history of blood lust and murder. Innovatively told through letters, interviews, and traditional narrative, Some of Your Blood effectively portrays the tragic upbringing of George Smith to his attempts at a stable life and the great love of his life to his inevitable downfall. Millipede Press is proud to present this masterpiece of macabre literature in a brand new edition. Theodore Sturgeon wrote science fiction, horror and fantasy over a four decade career. He also won the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. Theodore Sturgeon died in 1985.

Without Sorcery

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard to find books with something of interest for everyone!

To Marry Medusa

This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case. Directed by Emily Janice Card Read by Stefan Rudnicki Up until one minute ago, Gurlick was merely a specimen of ho*mo 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, turning him into a host for the Medusa, a hive mind so vast that it encompas*ses 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, visionary 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.

Case and the Dreamer

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.

Selected Stories

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.

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