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 car...
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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 experi...
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Critical Essay by Sam Moskowitz
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 incredi...
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Critical Essay by James Blish
There seems to be a certain incredulity in the title and in the author's preface of Sturgeon Is Alive and Well …, so perhaps it's not surprising that...
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Critical Essay by David Ketterer
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-n...
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Critical Essay by Donald M. Hassler
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 w...
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