Theodore Sturgeon Books In Order
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The Ultimate Egoist | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Microcosmic God | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Killdozer! | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thunder and Roses | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Perfect Host | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Baby is Three | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Saucer of Loneliness | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bright Segment | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
And Now the News | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Lost the Sea | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nail and the Oracle | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slow Sculpture | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Case and the Dreamer | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Synthetic Man / The Dreaming Jewels | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Than Human | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I, Libertine | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King and Four Queens | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Venus Plus X | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some Of Your Blood | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rare Breed | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stars Are the Styx | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Godbody | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Rose for Ecclesiastes | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blabbermouth and Abreaction | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beware the Fury | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Foot and the Grave | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
Without Sorcery | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
E Pluribus Unicorn | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Caviar | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Way Home | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Touch of Strange | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cosmic Rape | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Touch of Sturgeon | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Marry Medusa | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aliens 4 | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Not Without Sorcery | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sturgeon in Orbit | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Joyous Invasions | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Starshine | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sturgeon is Alive and Well | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Here and the Easel | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Case and the Dreamer and Other Stories | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Maturity | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Helix | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Soviet Science Fiction | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Visions and Venturers | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alien Cargo | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Stories | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Nebula Awards Books
Nebula Awards 1 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 3 | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 4 | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 5 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 21 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 22 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 23 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 24 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 26 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 27 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 28 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 29 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 30 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards31 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 34 (2000) | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 36 (2002) | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 37 (2003) | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 39 (2005) | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 43 (2009) | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 45 (2011) | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 46 (2012) | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 50 (2016) | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 51 (2017) | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 52 (2018) | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 53 (2019) | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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Publication Order of Star Trek Fotonovel Books
The City on the Edge of Forever | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trouble with Tribbles | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Our Yesterdays | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Taste of Armageddon | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Metamorphosis | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Galileo 7 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Piece of the Action | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Day of the Dove | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amok Time | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Star Trek: TOS (Numbered) Books
Star Trek: The Motion Picture | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Covenant of the Crown | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Prometheus Design | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Abode of Life | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Fire | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Triangle | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Fire | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Web of the Romulans | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wounded Sky | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trellisane Confrontation | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Corona | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tears of the Singers | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vulcan Academy Murders | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uhura's Song | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow Lord | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ishmael | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Killing Time | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pawns and Symbols | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mindshadow | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crisis on Centaurus | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demons | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chain of Attack | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deep Domain | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dreams of the Raven | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bloodthirst | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The IDIC Epidemic | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Nexus | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Timetrap | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Three-Minute Universe | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vulcan's Glory | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Home is the Hunter | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enemy Unseen | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Home Is the Hunter | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost-Walker | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Flag Full of Stars | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Renegade | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prime Directive | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Probe | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rift | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ice Trap | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sanctuary | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Count | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shell Game | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Starship Trap | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Windows on a Lost World | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Depths | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Starship Race | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Patrian Transgression | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossroad | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Better Man | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Recovery | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fearful Summons | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First Frontier | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Captain's Daughter | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twilight's End | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rings of Tautee | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Joy Machine | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mudd in Your Eye | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mind Meld | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heart of the Sun | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Assignment: Eternity | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vulcan's Heart | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Across the Universe | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Name of Honor | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ex Machina | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Disinherited | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Children of Kings | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cast No Shadow | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Allegiance in Exile | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Schmidt Analog Anthologies Books
Analog's Golden Anniversary Anthology | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Analog's Lighter Side | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Analog's Children Of The Future | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Analog | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War and Peace | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aliens from Analog | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Analog Writers Choice | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From Mind to Mind | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Fantastic, Fall 1952 | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ghoul Keepers | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Short Science Fiction Tales | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Connoisseur's Science Fiction | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Microcosmic God | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dangerous Visions 3 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amazing Stories, Vol. 41, No. 4 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demon Lovers and Strange Seductions | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Nineteenth Series | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Young Demons | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Award 6 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 7 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read With the Door Locked - Book 2 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Antigrav | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chrysalis 1 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alpha 8 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rod Serling's Other Worlds | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chrysalis Volume 2 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chrysalis 3 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Astounding | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of All Possible Worlds | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Fantasy | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Analog: Writers' Choice Volume II | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fourth Planet from the Sun | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Monster Book of Monsters | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
UFOs | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World Turned Upside Down | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Twelve | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Space Pioneers | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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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