Theodore Sturgeon Books In Order
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The Ultimate Egoist | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Microcosmic God | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Killdozer! | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Thunder and Roses | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Perfect Host | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Baby is Three | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Saucer of Loneliness | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bright Segment | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
And Now the News | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Man Who Lost the Sea | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Nail and the Oracle | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Slow Sculpture | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Case and the Dreamer | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Synthetic Man / The Dreaming Jewels | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
More Than Human | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
I, Libertine | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The King and Four Queens | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Venus Plus X | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Some Of Your Blood | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Rare Breed | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Stars Are the Styx | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Godbody | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Rose for Ecclesiastes | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blabbermouth and Abreaction | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Beware the Fury | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
One Foot and the Grave | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Collections
Publication Order of Star Trek Fotonovel Books
The City on the Edge of Forever | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Trouble with Tribbles | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
All Our Yesterdays | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Taste of Armageddon | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Metamorphosis | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Galileo 7 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Piece of the Action | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Day of the Dove | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Amok Time | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Star Trek: TOS (Numbered) Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fantastic, Fall 1952 | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Ghoul Keepers | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
50 Short Science Fiction Tales | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Connoisseur's Science Fiction | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Microcosmic God | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dangerous Visions 3 | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Amazing Stories, Vol. 41, No. 4 | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Demon Lovers and Strange Seductions | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Nineteenth Series | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Young Demons | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nebula Award 6 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nebula Awards 7 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Antigrav | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chrysalis 1 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Alpha 8 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rod Serling's Other Worlds | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chrysalis Volume 2 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chrysalis 3 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best of Astounding | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best of All Possible Worlds | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Great Fantasy | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Analog: Writers' Choice Volume II | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fourth Planet from the Sun | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Monster Book of Monsters | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
UFOs | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World Turned Upside Down | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Twelve | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Space Pioneers | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon was born February 26, 1918 in Staten Island, New York. He was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in New York City, later adopting his stepdad’s last name and took on another first name.
He went to sea for three years, and started publishing science fiction in the year 1939 yet stopped producing it after just a few years and went abroad. In 1946 he started writing again and, during the next fifteen years, produced all of the work that he is famous for. Theodore is one of science fiction’s best writers.
Theodore held a wide range of jobs during his lifetime. While still an adolescent, he wanted to be a circus acrobat, however a bout of rheumatic fever prevented him from ever pursuing this dream. From the age of seventeen (in 1935) to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marines, elements of which made their way into many of his stories.
He went door to door selling refrigerators. From 1940 to 1941, he managed a hotel in Jamaica, and even worked in several infrastructure jobs (he operated a gas station and a truck lubrication center, and worked at a drydock and construction jobs, driving a bulldozer in Puerto Rico) for the US Army during the early war years.
By 1944, he was an advertising copywriter. Along with television and freelance fiction writing, he opened his own literary agency in New York City, which was later transferred to Scott Meredith. He worked for Fortune magazine as well as other Time Inc. properties on circulation, and also edited a wide variety of publications. He had somewhat irregular output, since he frequently suffered from writer’s block.
The McClure Syndicate bought his first story, and would buy many of his early work. Initially, he wrote primarily short stories, mainly for genre magazines such as Unknown and Astounding, yet also for general interest publications as well like Argosy Magazine. He used the pen name “E. Waldo Hunter” when two of his stories were published in the same Astounding issue. A few of his early stories were signed “Theodore H. Sturgeon”.
Theodore is considered one of the godfathers of contemporary science fiction and dark fantasy.
He also wrote for television and holds in his credits two episodes of the original 1960s “Star Trek” series, for which he created the Vulcan mating ritual and the expression “Live long and prosper”. He’s also credited as being Kurt Vonnegut’s inspiration for his recurring Kilgore Trout character.
He has received the Nebula, the International Fantasy Award, and the Hugo Award. “More Than Human” won the International Fantasy Award for the year 1954. And in the year 2000, he was posthumously honored with a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
Two of his stories were adapted for “The New Twilight Zone”. “A Saucer of Loneliness”, which aired in 1986, was dedicated to his memory. While another, “Yesterday was Monday”, was the inspiration for the episode “A Matter of Minutes”. “Killdozer!” was the inspiration for a made-for-TV-movie of the same name, Marvel comic, and an alt-rock group of the same name, along with becoming the colloquial term for Marvin Heemeyer’s 2004 bulldozer rage incident.
Even though he continued writing through 1983, his work rate dipped noticeably during the later years of his life. He lived for several years in Springfield, Oregon. He died of lung fibrosis on May 8, 1985 at Sacred Heart General Hospital in the neighboring town of Eugene.
Theodore was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov’s fictional group of mystery solvers, known as the Black Widowers.
He was married three times, had two different long term committed relationships outside of marriage, divorced one time, and fathered a grand total of seven kids. Dorothe Fillingame, his first wife that he married in 1940 and divorced in 1945, and with whom he had two daughters: Cynthia and Patricia. He was married to Mary Mair, a singer, from 1949 until an annulment in 1951. he married Marion McGahan in 1953 with whom he had Robin and Timothy (son) and Noel and Tandy (daughters).
“The Dreaming Jewels” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 1950. A desperate boy escapes from his abusive home by joining a carnival and gets pulled into a dark conspiracy.
Little Horton “Horty” Bluett is just eight years old, yet still knows a lifetime of sadness. Abused and tormented by his adoptive family, he has had enough. And with this beloved and broken toy that he calls “Junky” as his only companion, the desperate young boy runs off to join a carnival. While there, among the fire-eaters, sideshow freaks, fortune tellers, and assorted “odd people”, he hopes to find some acceptance and a real home, at long last.
However Pierre “Maneater” Montere’s traveling show isn’t any ordinary slice of entertainment, and its performers are nothing like they appear. The Maneater, who is a disgraced doctor, has got some sinister plans for the world which go way beyond merely fleecing unsuspecting rubes and the other easy marks. It’s a horrible and dark scheme which requires unleashing all of the extraterrestrial power of the dreaming jewels, and the unwitting aid from a young boy that might be much more remarkable than he has ever imagined.
“More Than Human” is the second stand alone novel and was released in 1952.
One powerful entity, and sex misfits.
Individually, they’re a seemingly simpleminded young man that lives in the wood able to read the thoughts of others, twin girls barely able to speak yet able to teleport across huge distances, one runaway girl with telekinetic powers, and one infant with a mind like a supercomputer. Together, they’re the Gestalt: a single extraordinary being made up of remarkable parts, although one vital piece could be missing.
However are they really the next stage in human development or actually harbingers of civilization’s end? The answer could come when they’re joined by Gerry. He is powerfully telepathic, yet lacks a moral compass, and his hatred of the world which has rejected him might prove catastrophic.
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