Theodore Sturgeon ( 26 February 1918 - 8 May 1985 ) was an American Science-Fiction writer, essayist, and poet. Sourced It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that. It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to...
Biography
Name:
Theodore Sturgeon
Birth Date:
February 26, 1918
Death Date:
May 8, 1985
Place of Birth:
St. George, Staten Island, New York, United States
Theodore Sturgeon has been a science-fiction writer for forty years. In the 1940s and 1950s, Sturgeon wrote stories and novels that emphasized the personal and psychological dimensions of human experience with science. He provided his readers with...
Best known for his novel More than Human and for his Nebula and Hugo Award-winning short story "Slow Sculpture," Theodore Sturgeon wrote over two hundred novels and short stories in his fifty-year career and was one of a handful of science-fiction...
Theodore Sturgeon (February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American science fiction author. He was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York; in 1929, after a divorce, his mother married William Sturgeon, and Edward changed his name to...
Thomas D. Clareson observes that Theodore Sturgeon's "most persistent theme.... [is] the anguish and loneliness of characters isolated within themselves and unable to communicate because of the preconceptions and hypocrisy of society" (83). Studies of Sturgeon by Lahna Diskin (1981) and Lucy Menger (1981)...
Sturgeon in danger, state fears Fish farming could offset caviar crisis, some say By MEG JONES of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, January 14, 2001 As fish go, it's not pretty. Gaping mouth, drooping whiskers, pointy snout and bony...
The true technician is indeed the form-changer, transforming simple materials into near limitless proliferations and a variety of forms. Sturgeon can do this with words and with narrative lines, and he often creates protagonists who possess a similar fecundity of inventiveness and controlled variation. These mad scientists of Sturgeon's, who are usually quite sane, loving, and gentle men, are his images for the technician and craftsman that is he himself as artist. James Kidder, the protagonist in &#...
Authors had created monsters before, many whose names became synonyms for terror, but none of them had been treated with such objectivity or presented with such incredible mastery of style [as Theodore Sturgeon's monster in It]. "Styles" would have been the better term, for the author was a virtuoso, possessing an absolute pitch for the cadence of words, altering the mood and beat of his phraseology with the deliberateness of background music in a moving picture. (p. 230)
In [Venus Plus X], Sturgeon makes subtle use of various conventions of the science-fiction genre and of social conventions, particularly sexual conventions. The well-nigh-perfect society of the Ledom, a new form of "humanity," is explained as a consequence of their hermaphroditic sexuality. Everybody is equipped with both male and female sexual organs. Impregnation is a mutual affair. With the lack of sexual differentiation goes, it is assumed, a corresponding lack of other dichotomies…...
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