Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Sturgeon, Theodore; Sturgeon, Noel; Willis, Connie; Robinson, Spider |
| Publisher: | North Atlantic Books |
| Date: | 10/20/2009 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Theodore Sturgeon was a model for his friend Kurt Vonnegut’s legendary characterKilgore Trout, and his work was an acknowledged influence on important younger writersfrom Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg to Stephen King and Octavia Butler. Hiswork has long been deeply appreciated for its sardonic sensibility, dazzling wordplay,conceptual brilliance, memorable characters, and unsparing treatment of social issuessuch as sex, war, and marginalized members of society. Sturgeon also authored severalepisodes of the original Star Trek TV series and originated the Vulcan phrase “Livelong and prosper.”
This twelfth volume of North Atlantic’s ambitious series reprintinghis complete short stories includes classic works such as the award-winning titlestory, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1971, as well as “Case and theDreamer,” a well-crafted tale of an encounter with a trans-spatial being that isalso a meditation on love, and “The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff,” a creativeexploration of the human ability to achieve self-realization in response to book includes a new Foreword, an illuminating section of Story Notes, and a comprehensiveindex for the entire series.
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