Theodore Sturgeon

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 Theodore the better to match his nickname, "Ted".

Bibliography

His novels include:

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• The Dreaming Jewels or The Synthetic Man (1950)
• More Than Human (1953, actually three linked novellas) - winner of the International Fantasy Award
• The King and Four Queens (1956)
• I, Libertine (1956, as "Frederick R. Ewing")
• The Cosmic Rape (1958)
• To Marry Medusa (1958)
• Venus Plus X (1960)
• Some of Your Blood (1961)
• The Rare Breed (1966)
• Godbody (1986)

He was better known for his short stories. A sampling of Sturgeon short stories and novellas follows:

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• "Ether Breather" (September, 1939, his first published science-fiction story)
• "Derm Fool" (March, 1940)
• "It" (August, 1940)
• "Microcosmic God" (April, 1941)
• "Killdozer" (November, 1944)
• "Bianca's Hands" (May, 1947)
• "Thunder and Roses" (November, 1947)
• "The Perfect Host" (November, 1948)
• "Minority Report" (June, 1949, no connection to the 2002 movie, which was based on a different story by Philip K. Dick)
• "One Foot and the Grave" (September, 1949)
• "The World Well Lost" (June, 1953)
• "Mr. Costello, Hero" (December, 1953)
• "The Skills of Xanadu" (July, 1956)
• "The Other Man" (September, 1956)
• "Need" (1960)
• "How to Forget Baseball" (December, 1964, originally appeared in Sports Illustrated)
• "The Nail and the Oracle" (October, 1964, originally appeared in Playboy)
• "Slow Sculpture" (Galaxy February 1970) - winner of a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award and a Locus Poll Award
• "Occam's Scalpel" (August, 1971)

North Atlantic Books is releasing a multi-volume The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Volumes 1 through 10 are available as of February, 2005.

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