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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Wednesday's Short Stories: FANTASY MAGAZINE, March 1953, edited by Lester del Rey



One of the more promising fantasy fiction magazines to arise in the early '50s post-F&SF/Galaxy boom of fantastic-fiction magazines was the (sadly, four-issue run only) of Fantasy Magazine, which with its second issue changed its title to Fantasy Fiction, presumably due to legal pressure from one party or another--not the best way to help readers find the next issue (an even more short-lived and less impressive magazine called Fantasy Fiction had published two issues in 1950; it also leaned a bit on crime-fiction amphibians in its first issue, particularly). With a Robert Howard/Conan cover story "completed" by old hands L. Sprague de Camp and editor del Rey, and otherwise filling the first issue with young lions from fantastic fiction (and, as hinted above. a couple, Frazee and Deming, already more famous for their western and/or crime fiction) and with a striking Bok cover, the magazine couldn't overcome  the crowding of the newsstands, and undercapitalization will and did out. 

The stories I've read so far are more promising than brilliant, but I'm not sorry I've spent the time. Richard Deming's "Too Gloomy for Private Pushkin" has excellent detail in its WW2 setting, and Deming is game to introduce the fantasticated elements sparingly, even if the climax might feel a bit rushed vs. the build-up. Frank Robinson's "The Night Shift" lays its hardboiled-reporters-and-cops patter on a bit thick, and rushes its ending, but is clever enough. "Feeding Time", the shortest story in the issue, isn't quite clever enough for most readers not to see the punch coming; one guesses that's why Robert Sheckley chose to employ his pseudonym on this one, albeit it has a nice attention to detail, in describing a particularly odd, surprisingly large old bookshop.

For more of today's Short Story Wednesday entries (two shots of Jerry House this week), please see Patti Abbott's blog.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

SSW: short stories by Lyn Venable (Marilyn A. Venable, 3 June 1927-31 March 2025): "Time Enough at Last" (the Twilight Zone favorite) and others: Short Story Wednesday (2 of 2)

Lyn Venable's work, as detailed by ISFDB (there are also chapbooks and podcast readings/possibly dramatizations cited for some of these stories), including that endlessly-rerun TZ adaptation...at least one US digital broadcast network, H&I, and one cable station, SyFy [koff], dusted it off again for their New Year's Serling marathons:

Featuring Lyn Venable's last? story (so far?)

Short Fiction

Lyn Venable, as far as I can tell, has only published seven short stories in her career, all of them in a stretch in the early-to-mid/late 1950s (1952-1957).  The second to see print, and easily the most famous, was her 1953 story "Time Enough at Last" in If: Worlds of Science Fiction for January 1953, edited and published by James Quinn. The short story is less heavy-handed than The Twilight Zone adaptation, one of the most widely-loved of first-season episodes (1959, notably after Venable had apparently stopped publishing), though Burgess Meredith's crowd-pleasing performance probably helps there. The short story's Mr. Henry Bemis is competent at work and slightly better at getting around his controlling wife's resentment of his spending any time reading, vs. socializing or watching television with her...and the portrayal of atomic war and its aftermath is rather better-presented in the story than in the television episode (TZ Bemis seems to think he'll be able to leave books from a destroyed public library in stacks in the exposed rubble of the building and they not fall prey to weather, or other problems, for example...he's not quite so foolish in the short story). The current Wikipedia entry for Venable suggests that the story is akin to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, which it is not, except to the degree that Bemis is kept from reading by (rather less overarching) villains. However, Venable does write in a mode that is not altogether unlike Bradbury's, and in a few of her stories with rather less fake naivete than RB might slip into...the ending of "Time Enough" has been roundly dismissed as cruel by at least one latter-day reviewer, rather than, as I suspect it was meant, as a metaphor for how much misery modern warfare and its potential for massacre place on even those who hope to find some way to cope with it. Seems a pity she didn't (or couldn't) continue into the early '60s, at very least, and no doubt be courted by Gamma magazine, the home of Bradbury (and Patricia Highsmith, both on rare occasion) and the "Little Bradburys", and perhaps be reprinted by Judith Merril in her anthologies.

Her other best story, I'd suggest, from my quick whip-around her published work (I've yet to read her first, "Homesick", a 1952 publication in Galaxy, at that point the most popular and widely-imitated of the US sf magazines, and [since launched by an Italian firm moving into the US market] one with several foreign-language editions as early as its second year of publication), perhaps surprisingly, is the one published in a magazine that made an attempt to present itself as an essentially nonfictional magazine about supernatural phenomena, Mystic, while regularly publishing fiction written in no way "nonfictionally"...and edited by the team of Ray Palmer and Bea Mahaffey who were also producing Other Worlds and its sf/fantasy spinoff titles, before Mahaffey left and Palmer threw his fate in with all-woo-woo "nonfiction" with his magazines Fate and  Other Worlds remade as Flying Saucers from Other Worlds. An historical borderline suspense/horror story (it can be interpreted as either "realistic" or "fantastic" depending on how much one trusts the characters' perception of events). "Doppelganger" involves a gravid woman in suddenly problematic labor, her desperate husband and the midwife, who in better times had helped deliver him, who is reluctantly called into service in the growing emergency...and what they make of the one baby delivered who is suddenly joined in his crib by a twin whom no one remembers from previously. 


But "Punishment Fit the Crime" is a reasonably good variation on an Isaac Asimov sort of robot story, where a very specialized robot behaves in such a way that it is the one who needs protection from humans. This was Venable's one story in Other Worlds, and her only pair of stories to sell to the same editors, vs. "one-shots" in all her other markets.  

While "The Missing Room" is a rather deft more-or-less straightforward sf story she sold to Weird Tales, which, under editor Dorothy McIlwraith, always open to certain kinds of science fiction with a menacing element to it...an open house in a future (perhaps even still) suburb (commuters use personal helicopters) turns out to be a kind of alien's specimen trap. That Venable sold most of her large handful of stories to editors who were women or men who were particularly interested in publishing women writers (Hans Stefan Santesson at Fantastic Universe, Quinn at If, and certainly Ray Palmer and Galaxy's H. L. Gold weren't unwilling to publish women writers--given both her approach and subject matter, I'm a bit surprised that Anthony Boucher never took one of her stories for F&SF).  Her last two stories are a notch lower in originality, at least, with her one story in a non-U.S. magazine, the UK Authentic Science Fiction item "Parry's Paradox", being a mildly clever but slight time-travel tale, and the Big Twist in the ending of her otherwise rather nicely-detailed story of a first-encounter with another humanoid species, "Grove of the Unborn", being a rather too foreseeable twist.  


For more of today's Short Stories, please see Patti Abbott's blog, and/or the post just before this one, Paul Di Filippo on an issue of Lester Del Rey's magazine Space Science Fiction.

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Sunday, October 30, 2022

The Shirley Jackson Awards, for work published in 2021:

 ***indicates the winner

to see video of the ceremony: https://www.facebook.com/shirleyjacksonawards

https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/

NOVEL

All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter (Titan Books)

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)

***My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press-US/Titan Books-UK)

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone Publishing-US/Titan Books-UK)

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire-US/Titan Books-UK)

NOVELLA

Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)

Dirty Heads: A novella of cosmic coming-of-age horror by Aaron Dries (Black T-Shirt Books)

***Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)

A Rose / Arose by Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles (Innsmouth Free Press)

NOVELETTE

House of Crows by Lisa Unger (Amazon Original Stories)

“The Nag Bride” by A.C. Wise (The Ghost Sequences, Undertow Publications)

The Night Belongs to Us by Jess Landry (Independent Legions Publishing)

***“We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It” by E. A. Petricone (Nightmare Magazine, February 2021)

The Women by Margaret Jameson (F(r)iction)

SHORT FICTION

“Dizzy in the Weeds” by L.D. Lewis (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness)

“Forward, Victoria” by Carlie St. George (The Dark Magazine, April 2021)

“Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror” by Gordon B. White (Nightmare Magazine, July 2021)

“Human Reason” by Nicasio Andres Reed (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness)

***“You’ll Understand When You’re a Mom Someday” by Isabel J. Kim (khōréō magazine, August 2021)

 SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

***Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories by Keith Rosson (Meerkat Press)

People from My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen (Soft Skull Press)

Sometimes We’re Cruel by J.A.W. McCarthy (Cemetery Gates Media)

We are Happy, We are Doomed by Kurt Fawver (Grimscribe Press)

Where All is Night, and Starless by John Linwood Grant (Trepidatio Publishing)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY--a tied vote, thus two winners

Giving The Devil His Due: A Charity Anthology, edited by Rebecca Brewer (Running Wild Press)

***Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, edited by Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon Books)

Stitched Lips: An Anthology of Horror from Silenced Voices, edited by Ken MacGregor (Dragon’s Roost Press)

There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, edited by Jess Landry & Aaron J. French (Crystal Lake Publishing)

***Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock)

SPECIAL AWARD

The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc., also is committed to promoting the legacy of Shirley Jackson and, as part of this mission, will present a Special Award to Ms. Ellen Datlow in recognition of the anthology When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books, 2021).

Ms. Datlow was a nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award for Edited Anthology for the years 2011, 2013 (with Terri Windling), 2015, 2017, and 2019, and won the award in this category for the years 2007, 2009, and 2014.

Previous recipients of a Special Award from the Shirley Jackson Awards are Joyce Carol Oates as editor of the Library of America edition of Shirley Jackson:  Novels & Stories (Library of America, 2010) and Ruth Franklin in recognition of her biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2016).


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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Stephen Gallagher: "The Governess: A Professor Challenger Story as told by Mr. Edward Malone..." (2020 chapbook) Brooligan Press: a Short Story Wednesday review


Stephen Gallagher is a deft hand in at least two media, prose and scriptwriting (primarily for television drama), and his Brooligan Press has republished his own work and offered volumes by others, including  fiction-writer and film critic Anne Billson, whose novel The Ex had only previously been self-published through CreateSpace (other novels by her had been published by actual publishing houses), as well as having offered some original chapbooks, such as this one. Among his most popular work in both forms has been related to the literary creations and extra-literary career of Arthur Conan Doyle, perhaps most famously The Kingdom of Bones, both as a novel and an episode of Murder Rooms, the British anthology series; this, as the careful annotation above suggests, is a pastiche of Doyle's Professor Challenger and Malone stories, one which doesn't require having read much of the original Challenger stories (I've read perhaps two, and those probably 45 years ago) for enjoyment, though I suspect the enjoyment will be deepened.

Malone approaches Challenger, after Malone's divorce from the older man's daughter, that divorce inspired by Malone's dalliance with another woman that had resulted in a son (Gallagher has Challenger refer to the "illegitimate" child as a "b----" [Gallagher's self-censorship], in the Proper argot of Doyle's early career). Unfortunately, the child has died, and Malone has begun to be haunted...perhaps Challenger can be persuaded to help, for the child's spirit's  sake. Thus some dealings with an unsavory mystic (as distinct from the mediums Challenger is more comfortable with) and a rather Dante-esque and cosmic discovery awaits them all, including a meeting with the titular force. 

It's great fun, and perches cheerfully at the borders of horror and fantasy, as well as being expert historical pastiche. 

The Governess has "repurposed" illustrations appropriate to "its era" by Walter S. Stacy (1846-1929) and, as one admirer noted in an even briefer review, even provides its ads for other Gallagher volumes in the Edwardian style.


For more of this week's short stories, please see Patti Abbott's blog.



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Friday, February 8, 2019

Friday's too-Forgotten Stories: Wilma Shore: further short fiction and more from STORY, THE NEW YORKER, and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, et al.


On Wilma Shore on Sweet Freedom.

 Wilma Shore: 

The following four short stories (and a very brief "casual") can be read online, but behind a paywall, at The New Yorker Online:

80 * The Curving Road (ss) The New Yorker, June 12, 1948

26 *  and * The New Yorker, December 4, 1948: 
The Talk of the Town: "West Coast Intelligence: A nursery school has opened in Los Angeles, called the Tot-orium." * jk/cl




and...free of charge...

80 * Dress from Bergdorf’s (Shore's preferred title: "All Sales Final" --see the review of her collection Women Should Be Allowed here) (ss) Cosmopolitan Jun 1959, which can be read online here

May Your Days Be Merry and Bright, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 21/28 1963 (which can be read online here)

A Bulletin from the Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Research at Marmouth, Mass., (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Aug 1964 (which can be read online here)
The Podiatrist’s Tale, (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Apr 1977 (which can be read online here)
...and some nonfiction, from The Writer's Handbook, 1974 edition (online here) "The Hand is Quicker Than the I" (Shore on the uses of first-person narrative form, among an appropriately star-studded cast in the how-to essay anthology.)

 Encouraging the reading of Wilma Shore's frequently brilliant fiction (among other writing) is an ongoing concern of this blog, and in the pursuit of that goal, I finally purchased a discounted six week subscription trial to The New Yorker (50% discount code, courtesy of Jackie Kashian's podcast The Dork Forest, is "DORK") so as to allow me online access to the four TNY stories grouped above, while also refreshing my memory of the two latter-day The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction stories (I can only assume that Edward Ferman at F&SF was offered the viciously unnerving "Goodbye, Amanda Jean" but for whatever foolish reason didn't accept it, so that it appeared in Ejler Jakobsson's Galaxy instead). 

 "The Butcher" (in Story magazine in 1940) was Shore's second published story, but the first one she liked, as did the editor of Best Stories annual (soon to become, and remain today, The Best American Short Stories series), which demonstrates the early and continuing concern Shore had with the constrictions of traditional roles on men and particularly women; her idealistic and very competent young office worker is as certain she's ready to be an ideal wife as she is an utterly competent and conscientious stenographer, for all practical purposes the only profession a woman can expect to have in New York City in 1940 aside from teaching school. But, somehow, even with an appreciative and reasonably sensitive husband...domestic work at home isn't quite what she hoped it might be. And she couldn't tell you why. As the daughter of an accomplished writer, who dropped out of a California high school to study painting in France and be praised as a budding genius in that field by Gertrude Stein's brother, and then putting aside painting to be the wife of a failing actor, and mother of their child while still very young...one can see where the story might have some autobiographical resonance. 

 Eight years later, when the first of Shore's New Yorker stories is published, she has a firmer grip on her tools, can work in the disparities of class as well as the hemming in of sexual assignments in detailing a reunion between a young woman and her former family maid, once a friend as well as servant, now far enough removed from her former ward's life that the latter, also, can't quite put her finger on why their last encounter feels hollow in comparison to their easy interaction when the elder woman worked for the young woman's family...at least not at the time, but, as the former Miss looks back on it a few more years later, she understands better. 
"The Ostrich Farm" deals with family dynamics of a rather more heated sort, as a boundary-free mother and her overdependent daughter don't realize there's any other way to act in regard to each other and their respective husbands. This one, and the two later stories sold to Harold Ross's magazine, are notable compared to Shore's women's and little/radical magazine stories in the degree to which the men are far more in the foreground of the stories...for TNY is about Important Matters, the kind that feature Men, doncha know, in these early but still pretty influential issues of the magazine, where the at times apparently bumptious Ross could express utter confusion in most dealings with women (his successor in the chair would famously hide from everyone). 

 But "The Moon Belongs to Everyone", while written from the viewpoint of a male protagonist, still manages to have a gentler if no less wrenching emotional underpinning, where it's less the assignment of roles by society that can be constricting so much as those driven by tragedy...as when a young family, with an infant and a boy on the cusp of adolescence, loses their wife and mother suddenly. And the sense of compromises acquiesced to in the face of tragedy and need, and difficulties in fully overcoming those challenges, taking their toll. 

 And by "Lock, Stock and Barrel", the wry sense of humor Shore brings to her best work is in full flower, while no less deftly drawing the predicament of the man who can't quite understand how or why his marriage has failed, and how he tries to come to grips with that fact...or, perhaps more accurately, tries very hard not to. 

 These are all good stories, if not quite up to those Shore would collect from her slightly later writing for Women Should Be Allowed, her only published collection...and presumably one delivered to her book publisher about the same time as she contributed to Avram Davidson's Fantasy & Science Fiction "A Bulletin from the Trustees...", her first overt sf story, or at very least her first story for the speculative fiction magazines, and discussed in the earlier posts. Following the savage satire of "Goodbye, Amanda Jean", "Is It the End of the World?" is only a bit less (obviously) apocalyptic, dealing as it does with environmental (mostly atmospheric) degradation so profound that it might well kill us all at any time during the events of the story, but that doesn't mean that the small power-struggles and mutual dependences of family life are any less distracting from that greater danger, and how people will tolerate and adapt to almost any threat in the face of the "need" to simply get to where they want to meet, for one small purpose or another, and on time.

 And while "Amanda Jean" and "End" certainly could qualify this post for consideration as entries in the February is Women in Horror Fiction Month observations, "The Podiatrist's Tale", a grimly amusing ghost story, helps clinch the deal...this might not be the last short story Shore published, but I'm not yet aware of another after 1977, and it deals with how the vicissitudes of aging might not be relieved even after death...

 Even as we lost another writer not too unlike Wilma Shore in her sensitivity, craft, insight and wit, and bubbling-under influence, Carol Emshwiller, this past Saturday at age 97, with her daughter Susan and son Peter/"Stoney" announcing the fact on Tuesday. Emshwiller, who also had a not to too dissimilar life from Shore's beyond their literary work in some ways, not least in terms of engagement with the community of the avant garde in several artforms, followed such other recently-lost peers as Ursula Le Guin, Kit Reed, Grania Davis and Kate Wilhelm...and inasmuch as I attempted to write up her brilliant first collection Joy in Our Cause a few years back while staying in a hotel in Barre, Vermont, with wonky computer access and there to attend the memorial service for one of the last of my aunts, my father's sister Shirley, it might be past time for a better try. For Emshwiller, too, is perhaps not fully appreciated enough for what she contributed, sometimes obliquely, to modern horror, as well...while writing primarily surreal or satirical or metafictional work, in the modes of contemporary/mimetic fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and even in two innovative western novels.

 Please see Patti Abbott's blog for more of today's reviews.















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Thursday, January 17, 2019

FFB: THE COMPLETE STORIES OF THEODORE STURGEON edited and annotated by Paul Williams and Noël Sturgeon (13 volumes plus a 1993 chapbook, North Atlantic Books, 1995-2010)

Theodore Sturgeon was by all accounts a confounding personality, genial, personally irresponsible, questioning many of the more basic matters of human relations, perception and emotion, and a man who could certainly write a sentence...and then be hung up by how badly he'd done so for years-long writer's blocks. And yet managed to be very prolific over a long if troubled career. Kurt Vonnegut based Kilgore Trout on him (as the name makes clear), while also admitting that much of what Trout was was also Vonnegut himself. Ray Bradbury was his most assiduous student; Bradbury learned much of his early craft from imitating Sturgeon's work, as well as getting more hands-on instruction from Leigh Brackett and others, and Bradbury deviating from that early tutelage didn't necessarily improve his work. He was a brilliant writer, as Vonnegut, Bradbury and the others tapped to write introductions and afterwords to the volumes of this massive effort to collect all his short fiction, some of it otherwise "lost" in a more profound way than we usually mean this, attest to, each in turn: Samuel R. Delany, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Beagle, Connie Willis, Robert Silverberg, Arthur C. Clarke, Gene Wolfe, Harlan Ellison, Philip Klass (aka "William Tenn"), David Hartwell, Larry McCaffery, Spider Robinson, Debbie Notkin, James Gunn and, because the project's original editor was the late, pioneering music journalist and magazine publisher Paul Williams, David Crosby, whose introduction is the slightest, unsurprisingly, if no less heartfelt. Among those who didn't survive to see even the initial volumes of the project  in print, Robert Heinlein's memory of the times he was proud to be able to help out Sturgeon are included, as was Isaac Asimov's recollection of how gutted he was by Sturgeon's fiction, first as a reader and also as a writer who knew he wasn't ever going to be able to match it. 

 And then we're into each volume, assembled as closely as possible as a chronological assembly of the fiction in the order it was written, with a few of the most obscure items recovered and added out of order in later volumes. Along with Williams's copious notes and running biographical account of Sturgeon's life and that of his family and contemporaries. (Williams was the grievously impaired survivor of an accident while bicycling in the latter years of assembling this series, after his similar assembly of the short work of Philip K. Dick, and Sturgeon's daughter Noël picked up the gauntlet when he could no longer continue.) The fiction ranges from slight early attempts and minor work sprinkled in throughout Sturgeon's career, to some of the most fully-realized literary art by anyone writing sf and fantasy in the middle decades of the previous century. There's a reason Graham Greene's entry came in second to Sturgeon's story "Bianca's Hands" in a contest the UK magazine Argosy sponsored in 1947, and not because Greene wasn't trying, with his "The Second Death"...just as there was a less-good reason that Sturgeon's disturbing story had failed to sell for nearly a decade before sending it along to the Argosy contest. Sturgeon was "the finest conscious artist science fiction [has] ever produced," James Blish once wrote in one of his critical pieces, and North Atlantic was quick to cite that in their catalog blurbing, as well, and while others have rivaled him, few have had more extensive influence coupled with the excellence of their best work. He wrote brilliant horror fiction, fantasy and science fiction and less copiously in other fields, including similarly impressive work in western fiction and good work in crime fiction and contemporary/mimetic fiction. His occasional ghosted books included two of "Ellery Queen"'s novels and the famous literary hoax novel Betty and Ian Ballantine chose to publish in the wake of Jean Shepherd's large-scale practical joke on the "bestseller list" devisers, in employing his radio listeners in creating demand and "bestseller" status for a nonexistent historical novel, I, Libertine, published as by "Frederick R. Ewing" after a marathon overnight writing session to rush the book out, the final pages written by Betty Ballantine after Sturgeon simply needed to collapse on the couch. Ballantine Books also published a number of his better books, in first edition and reprints. 
Sturgeon's novels were often not up to the best of his short work; published after his first, 1950's impressive The Dreaming Jewels, his most famous novel, More Than Human, is essentially a working-together (or "fix-up") of three novellas, one of them lending its title to Volume VI of this series, "Baby is Three"...and they weren't always treated well by their publishers...Dell Books chose to package the slight expansion of the novella "To Marry Medusa" as The Cosmic Rape (1958), among the more unintentionally (we can hope) terrible commercial decisions ever made on behalf of a new book by an important writer...oddly enough, subsequent publishers opted to go for the original title. His next sf novel had the only slightly better title, if less objectionable, Venus Plus X (1959); it would be his last science fiction novel, with the weak exception of his novelization of the film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961); the same year saw his rationalized-vampire psychological suspense novel Some of Your Blood, and aside from the ghosted "Queen"s, another film novelization, from the western The Rare Breed, and the long-worked-over final fantasy novel Godbody, published posthumously in 1986, he would publish no more book-length fiction, though another project which had been in (apparently limited) progress for decades, expanding from his story "When You Care, When You Love", was left unfinished at his death. The story had been published in the first special author-tribute issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, with the Edmund Emshwiller cover painting for that issue (September 1962) reprinted as the cover of Volume VII, above. 


But he continued, albeit with the sporadic blocks noted above, to contribute good to brilliant short fiction throughout his career, as well as contributing a range of nonfiction writing and devoting a fair amount of time in his last years to teaching in writing workshops...one of my lasting regrets is not being able to afford to attend, assuming I would've been admitted to, one held on Kauai when I was living on Oahu in 1984; the impressive if relatively underpublished writer Elizabeth Engstrom began publishing after her attendance at the same workshop, which might even have been Sturgeon's last. His book reviews, which appeared in even more unlikely places than his fiction would, including National Review (he was not a Conservative) and Hustler (the latter during Paul Krassner's comparatively ambitious editorship of that skin magazine), were often criticized themselves for his stated inability to dislike any book.  Other essays of his were usually less controversial thus...it was in his first regular book-review column in the magazine Venture that he first put into print his Sturgeon's Estimate, that 90% of any artistic body of literature is mediocre or worse...often cited as Sturgeon's Law, and that  90% of everything is crap. 

A pamphlet issued in 1993 by Paul Williams as a fundraiser and heads-up that the Sturgeon Project was beginning, and he would be seeking a publisher for the Complete Stories volumes; Argyll was how he dubbed his stepfather, the source of the Sturgeon name for a boy who had been born Edward Hamilton Waldo, and whose mother had his name changed after she married  this uptight and at least borderline abusive, as Sturgeon recalls him, new father-figure. Apparently written in 1965, and unpublished till this 1993 item.


 The Ultimate Egoist: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 1 Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic Books 1-55643-182-1, Feb ’95 [Dec ’94], $25.00, 387pp, hc, cover by Jacek Yerka) Collection of 46 stories and one poem, nine of them previously unpublished “trunk” stories (literally). This is the first of thirteen volumes and covers Sturgeon’s work through 1940. A marvelous project. [--Locus magazine editor and publisher Charles N. Brown] Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams, with forewords by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Gene Wolfe. Order from North Atlantic Books, PO Box 12327, Berkeley CA 94712.
  • v · Editor’s Note · Paul Williams · pr
  • ix · About Theodore Sturgeon · Ray Bradbury · fw Without Sorcery, Prime Press, 1948
  • xii · About Theodore Sturgeon · Arthur C. Clarke · fw *
  • xiv · About Theodore Sturgeon · Gene Wolfe · fw *
  • 3 · Heavy Insurance · ss Milwaukee Journal Jul 16 ’38
  • 6 · The Heart · ss Other Worlds Science Stories May ’55
  • 10 · Cellmate · ss Weird Tales Jan ’47
  • 23 · Fluffy · ss Weird Tales Mar ’47
  • 31 · Alter Ego · ss *
  • 35 · Mailed Through a Porthole · ss *
  • 40 · A Noose of Light · ss *
  • 50 · Strangers on a Train · ss *
  • 55 · Accidentally on Porpoise · ss *
  • 70 · The Right Line · ss *
  • 83 · Golden Day · ss Milwaukee Journal Mar 4 ’39
  • 86 · Permit Me My Gesture · ss Milwaukee Journal Mar 10 ’39
  • 89 · Watch My Smoke · ss Milwaukee Journal Mar 13 ’39
  • 92 · The Other Cheek · ss Milwaukee Journal Apr 10 ’39
  • 95 · Extraordinary Seaman · ss Milwaukee Journal Jun ’39
  • 104 · One Sick Kid · ss Milwaukee Journal Apr 29 ’39
  • 107 · His Good Angel · ss Milwaukee Journal May 12 ’39
  • 110 · Some People Forget · ss Milwaukee Journal May 30 ’39
  • 113 · A God in a Garden · ss Unknown Oct ’39
  • 133 · Fit for a King · ss Milwaukee Journal Jun 10 ’39
  • 136 · Ex-Bachelor Extract · ss Milwaukee Journal Jun 17 ’39
  • 139 · East Is East · ss Milwaukee Journal Jun 24 ’39
  • 142 · Three People · ss *
  • 145 · Eyes of Blue · ss Milwaukee Journal Jul 1 ’39
  • 148 · Ether Breather [Ether Breather] · ss Astounding Sep ’39
  • 163 · Her Choice · ss Milwaukee Journal Jul 8 ’39
  • 166 · Cajun Providence · ss Milwaukee Journal Jul 15 ’39
  • 169 · Strike Three · ss *
  • 172 · Contact! · ss Milwaukee Journal Aug 5 ’39
  • 175 · The Call · ss Milwaukee Journal Aug 19 ’39
  • 178 · Helix the Cat · nv Astounding, ed. Harry Harrison, Random House, 1973
  • 204 · To Shorten Sail · ss Milwaukee Journal Sep 9 ’39
  • 207 · Thanksgiving Again · ss *
  • 217 · Bianca’s Hands · ss Argosy (UK) May ’47
  • 226 · Derm Fool · ss Unknown Mar ’40
  • 242 · He Shuttles · ss Unknown Apr ’40
  • 262 · Turkish Delight · ss Milwaukee Journal Nov 18 ’39
  • 265 · Niobe · ss *
  • 270 · Mahout · ss Milwaukee Journal Jan 22 ’40
  • 273 · The Long Arm · ss Milwaukee Journal Feb 5 ’40
  • 276 · The Man on the Steps · ss Milwaukee Journal Feb 22 ’40
  • 279 · Punctuational Advice · ss Milwaukee Journal Feb 29 ’40
  • 282 · Place of Honor · ss Milwaukee Journal Mar 18 ’40
  • 285 · The Ultimate Egoist · nv Unknown Feb ’41
  • 303 · It · nv Unknown Aug ’40
  • 328 · Butyl and the Breather [Ether Breather] · nv Astounding Oct ’40
  • 351 · Back Words: Story Notes · Paul Williams · ms *
  • 387 · Look About You · pm Unknown Jan ’40
As with at least a few of the other geniuses in the fantastic-fiction field, notably Fritz Leiber and Joanna Russ (and acolyte Bradbury), it's notable the number of rather brilliant horror stories cluster here in the earliest career of Sturgeon, with the proportion of horror fiction to attenuate by mid-career ..."Fluffy", "Bianca's Hands", "It", and then "Cellmate" and "He Shuttles" a notch less superb. "The Ultimate Egoist" being a fine humorous dark fantasy, plagiarized by at least one comic-book story I read as a child.  The largely sailing-related vignettes from newspaper syndication (Sturgeon was a merchant mariner) are promising but not, on balance, much more than interesting. 

Microcosmic God: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 2 Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic Books 1-55643-213-5, Jan ’96 [Dec ’95], $25.00, 372pp, hc, cover by Jacek Yerka) Collection of 17 stories, two previously unpublished. This is the second of thirteen volumes and covers Sturgeon’s work from 1940 to 1943. Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams. There is a foreword by Samuel R. Delany.
  • vi · Editor’s Note · Paul Williams · pr
  • vii · Theodore Sturgeon · Samuel R. Delany · fw * [Theodore Sturgeon]
  • 3 · Cargo · nv Unknown Nov ’40
  • 32 · Shottle Bop · nv Unknown Feb ’41
  • 59 · Yesterday Was Monday · ss Unknown Jun ’41
  • 77 · Brat · ss Unknown Dec ’41
  • 95 · The Anonymous · nv *
  • 123 · Two Sidecars · ss *
  • 127 · Microcosmic God · nv Astounding Apr ’41
  • 157 · The Haunt · ss Unknown Apr ’41
  • 175 · Completely Automatic · ss Astounding Feb ’41
  • 194 · Poker Face · ss Astounding Mar ’41
  • 206 · Nightmare Island [as by E. Waldo Hunter] · nv Unknown Jun ’41
  • 235 · The Purple Light [as by E. Hunter Waldo] · ss Astounding Jun ’41
  • 241 · Artnan Process · nv Astounding Jun ’41
  • 265 · Biddiver · nv Astounding Aug ’41
  • 289 · The Golden Egg · nv Unknown Aug ’41
  • 309 · Two Percent Inspiration · ss Astounding Oct ’41
  • 329 · The Jumper · Theodore Sturgeon & James H. Beard · ss Unknown Aug ’42; Beard is not credited in this edition.
  • 347 · Story Notes · Paul Williams · bi
  • 369 · Microcosmic God (Unfinished Early draft) · uw *



Killdozer!: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 3 Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic Books 1-55643-227-5, Nov ’96 [Oct ’96], $25.00, 367pp, hc, cover by Paul Orban) Collection of 15 stories, four previously unpublished, and two not previously collected. This is the third of thirteen volumes and covers Sturgeon’s work from 1941 to 1946. Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams. There is a foreword by Robert Silverberg, and an afterword by Robert A. Heinlein (excerpted from the 1985 introduction to Godbody).
  • ix · Foreword · Robert Silverberg · fw
  • 1 · Blabbermouth · nv Amazing Feb ’47
  • 26 · Medusa · nv Astounding Feb ’42
  • 48 · Ghost of a Chance [aka “The Green-Eyed Monster”] · ss Unknown Jun ’43
  • 65 · The Bones · Theodore Sturgeon & James H. Beard · ss Unknown Aug ’43
  • 84 · The Hag Séleen · Theodore Sturgeon & James H. Beard · nv Unknown Dec ’42
  • 104 · Killdozer! · na Aliens 4, Avon, 1959; revised from Astounding Nov ’44.
  • 177 · Abreaction · ss Weird Tales Jul ’48
  • 190 · Poor Yorick · ss *
  • 194 · Crossfire · vi *
  • 197 · Noon Gun · ss Playboy Sep ’63
  • 211 · Bulldozer Is a Noun · ss *
  • 227 · August Sixth, 1945 · pl Astounding Dec ’45
  • 231 · The Chromium Helmet · nv Astounding Jun ’46
  • 283 · Memorial · ss Astounding Apr ’46
  • 297 · Mewhu’s Jet · nv Astounding Nov ’46
  • 335 · Story Notes (including the original ending of “Killdozer!” and the unpublished alternate ending of “Mewhu’s Jet”) · Paul Williams · bi
  • 361 · Afterword [from the 1985 introduction to Godbody] · Robert A. Heinlein · aw
As would happen with the next volume, the initial cover for Thunder and Roses was deemed insufficiently decorative:
Cover and book design by Paula Morrison--though ISFDB wonders if the artist credit is simply omitted, as Morrison designed the entire series. I wonder if this cover illustration wasn't, like the next volume's also-replaced initial cover image, by Hal Robins.


And was replaced:
The new cover painting, titled "Sun Spots", is by Jacek Yerka (1999)

Thunder and Roses: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 4 Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic Books 1-55643-252-6, Nov ’97, $25.00, 380pp, hc) Collection of 15 stories, one previously unpublished, and three not previously collected. This is the fourth of thirteen volumes and covers Sturgeon’s work from 1946 to 1947. Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams. The foreword by James Gunn originally appeared in Star Trek: The Joy Machine by Sturgeon & Gunn (1996). 
  • ix · Foreword · James Gunn · fw Star Trek: The Joy Machine, James Gunn & Theodore Sturgeon, Pocket, 1996
  • 1 · Maturity · na Astounding Feb ’47
  • 60 · Tiny and the Monster · nv Astounding May ’47
  • 97 · The Sky Was Full of Ships · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Jun ’47
  • 109 · Largo · ss Fantastic Adventures Jul ’47
  • 125 · Thunder and Roses · ss Astounding Nov ’47
  • 150 · It Wasn’t Syzygy [“The Deadly Ratio”] · nv Weird Tales Jan ’48
  • 179 · The Blue Letter · ss *
  • 183 · Wham Bop! · ss The Varsity Nov ’47
  • 197 · Well Spiced · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine Feb ’48
  • 214 · Hurricane Trio · nv Galaxy Apr ’55
  • 245 · That Low · vi Famous Fantastic Mysteries Oct ’48
  • 250 · Memory · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug ’48
  • 273 · There Is No Defense · nv Astounding Feb ’48
  • 321 · The Professor’s Teddy Bear · ss Weird Tales Mar ’48
  • 332 · A Way Home · ss Amazing Apr/May ’53
  • 340 · Story Notes · Paul Williams · bi
  • 359 · The original second half of “Maturity” · ex *
This 1957 UK-only collection shouldn't be confused with the series volume detailed above:


Apparently the first edition cover illustration for this one also was given another look by North Atlantic and judged too much like amateur cartooning, however intentionally primitive/"outsider" it was intended to be:
Cover art by Hal Robins; Cover and book design by Paula Morrison

 And was replaced:
The Perfect Host: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 5 Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic Books 1-55643-284-4, Nov ’98 [Oct ’98], $27.50, 386pp, hc, second edition cover by Michael Dashow) Collection of 17 stories, two previously unpublished, and seven not previously collected. Foreword by Larry McCaffery. This is the fifth of thirteen volumes, and covers Sturgeon’s work from 1947 to 1949. Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams. 
  • ix · Foreword · Larry McCaffery · fw
  • 1 · Quietly · ss *
  • 18 · The Music · vi E Pluribus Unicorn, Abelard, 1953
  • 20 · Unite and Conquer · nv Astounding Oct ’48
  • 63 · The Love of Heaven · ss Astounding Nov ’48
  • 78 · Till Death Do Us Join · ss Shock Jul ’48
  • 92 · The Perfect Host · nv Weird Tales Nov ’48
  • 141 · The Martian and the Moron · nv Weird Tales Mar ’49
  • 167 · Die, Maestro, Die! · nv Dime Detective Magazine May ’49
  • 201 · The Dark Goddess · ss *
  • 215 · Scars · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine May ’49
  • 223 · Messenger · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb ’49
  • 235 · Minority Report · ss Astounding Jun ’49
  • 257 · Prodigy · ss Astounding Apr ’49
  • 269 · Farewell to Eden · ss Invasion from Mars, edited by Don Ward, though credited to Orson Welles, Dell, 1949 (Ward ghost-edited for several celebrities in the 1940s at Dell, including Alfred Hitchcock)
  • 283 · One Foot and the Grave · nv Weird Tales Sep ’49
  • 324 · What Dead Men Tell · nv Astounding Nov ’49
  • 353 · The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF) Fll ’49
  • 362 · Story Notes · Paul Williams · ms


Baby Is Three: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 6 Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic Books 1-55643-319-0, Nov ’99, $30.00, 424pp, hc, cover by Richard M. Powers) Collection of 11 stories, plus two autobiographical essays in an appendix. Foreword by David Crosby. This is the sixth of thirteen volumes, and covers Sturgeon’s work from 1950 to 1953. Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams.
  • · Editor’s Note · Paul Williams · pr
  • ix · Foreword · David Crosby · fw
  • 1 · Shadow, Shadow, on the Wall · ss Imagination Feb ’51
  • 11 · The Stars Are the Styx · nv Galaxy Oct ’50
  • 54 · Rule of Three · nv Galaxy Jan ’51
  • 92 · Make Room for Me · nv Fantastic Adventures May ’51
  • 119 · Special Aptitude [aka “Last Laugh”] · ss Other Worlds Science Stories Mar ’51
  • 137 · The Traveling Crag · nv Fantastic Adventures Jul ’51
  • 171 · Excalibur and the Atom · na Fantastic Adventures Aug ’51
  • 238 · The Incubi of Parallel X · na Planet Stories Sep ’51
  • 293 · Never Underestimate... · ss If Mar ’52
  • 312 · The Sex Opposite · nv Fantastic Fll ’52
  • 340 · Baby Is Three · na Galaxy Oct ’52
  • 401 · Story Notes · Paul Williams · bi
  • · Appendix: Two Autobiographical Essays
  • 416 · Author, Author · bg The Fanscient Spr ’50
  • The Men Behind Fantastic Adventures:
    421 · Theodore Sturgeon · bg Fantastic Adventures Aug ’51

A Saucer of Loneliness: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume VII Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic 1-55643-350-6, Oct 2000, $30.00, 388 + ix, hc, cover by Ed Emshwiller) Collection of 12 stories. The foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. discusses the connection between his character Kilgore Trout and Sturgeon. This is the seventh of thirteen volumes, and covers work written from 1952 to 1953. Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams.
  • ix · Foreword · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · fw
  • 1 · A Saucer of Loneliness · ss Galaxy Feb ’53
  • 15 · The Touch of Your Hand · na Galaxy Sep ’53
  • 61 · The World Well Lost · ss Universe Jun ’53
  • 81 · ...And My Fear Is Great... · na Beyond Fantasy Fiction Jul ’53
  • 145 · The Wages of Synergy · nv Startling Stories Aug ’53
  • 195 · The Dark Room · nv Fantastic Jul/Aug ’53
  • 237 · Talent · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’53
  • 247 · A Way of Thinking · nv Amazing Oct/Nov ’53
  • 277 · The Silken-Swift · nv F&SF Nov ’53
  • 297 · The Clinic · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #2, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
  • 311 · Mr. Costello, Hero · nv Galaxy Dec ’53
  • 339 · The Education of Drusilla Strange · nv Galaxy Mar ’54
  • 375 · Story Notes · Paul Williams · bi

Bright Segment: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume VIII Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic 1-55643-398-0, May 2002, $35.00, 408pp, hc) Collection of 11 stories. This eighth volume covers work written from 1953 to 1955, plus two earlier short-short stories not found until recently. Foreword by "William Tenn" (Philip Klass). Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams.
  • ix · Foreword · William Tenn · fw
  • 1 · Cactus Dance · nv Luke Short’s Western Magazine Oct/Dec ’54
  • 27 · The Golden Helix · na Thrilling Wonder Stories Sum ’54
  • 85 · Extrapolation [aka “Beware the Fury”] · nv Fantastic Apr ’54
  • 115 · Granny Won’t Knit · na Galaxy May ’54
  • 175 · To Here and the Easel · na Star Short Novels, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1954
  • 229 · When You’re Smiling · nv Galaxy Jan ’55
  • 259 · Bulkhead [aka “Who?”] · nv Galaxy Mar ’55
  • 291 · The Riddle of Ragnarok · nv Fantastic Universe Jun ’55
  • 311 · Twink · ss Galaxy Aug ’55
  • 329 · Bright Segment · nv Caviar, Ballantine, 1955
  • 355 · So Near the Darkness · nv Fantastic Universe Nov ’55
  • 389 · Story Notes · Paul Williams · ms
  • 403 · Clockwise · vi Calling All Boys Sep ’46
  • 405 · Smpke! · vi Calling All Boys Dec ’46-Jan ’47
And Now the News...: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume IX Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic 1-55643-460-X, Nov 2003, $35.00, 377 + xiv, hc) Collection of 15 stories, five not previously collected. Foreword by David G. Hartwell. This volume covers work written from 1955 to 1957. Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams; includes the revelation that two stories were collaborations with Robert A. Heinlein: “The Other Man” and “And Now the News...”
  • ix · Foreword · David G. Hartwell · fw
  • 1 · “Won’t You Walk...” · nv Astounding Jan ’56
  • 31 · New York Vignette · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’99
  • 35 · The Half-Way Tree Murder · ss The Saint Detective Magazine Mar ’56
  • 51 · The Skills of Xanadu · nv Galaxy Jul ’56
  • 81 · The Claustrophile · nv Galaxy Aug ’56
  • 113 · Dead Dames Don’t Dial · ss The Saint Detective Magazine Aug ’56
  • 131 · Fear Is a Business · ss F&SF Aug ’56
  • 151 · The Other Man · na Galaxy Sep ’56 (with Robert Heinlein)
  • 205 · The Waiting Thing Inside · Theodore Sturgeon & Don Ward · ss EQMM Sep ’56
  • 223 · The Deadly Innocent · Theodore Sturgeon & Don Ward · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov ’56
  • 239 · And Now the News... · ss F&SF Dec ’56 (with Robert Heinlein)
  • 261 · The Girl Had Guts · nv Venture Jan ’57
  • 287 · The Other Celia · ss Galaxy Mar ’57
  • 305 · Affair with a Green Monkey · ss Venture May ’57
  • 317 · The Pod and the Barrier · na Galaxy Sep ’57
  • 359 · Story Notes · Paul Williams · ms

The Nail and the Oracle: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume XI Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic 1-55643-661-0, Jul 2007, $35.00, xxxii+256pp, hc) Collection of 12 stories. Foreword by Harlan Ellison, who collaborated on one of the stories. This volume covers work written from 1957 to 1970. Edited and with extensive story notes by Paul Williams. North Atlantic Books 
  • · Editor’s Note · Paul Williams · pr
  • ix · Abiding with Sturgeon: Mistral in the Bijou · Harlan Ellison · ar Interzone Jun, 2007 ; revised.
  • 1 · Ride In, Ride Out · Theodore Sturgeon & Don Ward · nv Sturgeon’s West, Doubleday, 1973
  • 25 · Assault and Little Sister · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul ’61
  • 43 · When You Care, When You Love · nv F&SF Sep ’62
  • 85 · Holdup à la Carte · ss EQMM Feb ’64
  • 95 · How to Forget Baseball · nv Sports Illustrated Dec 21 ’64
  • 117 · The Nail and the Oracle · nv Playboy Oct ’65
  • 137 · If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? · na Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967
  • 181 · Runesmith · Harlan Ellison & Theodore Sturgeon · ss F&SF May ’70
  • 199 · Jorry’s Gap · ss Adam Oct ’69
  • 211 · Brownshoes · ss Adam May ’69
  • 223 · It Was Nothing—Really! · ss Knight Nov ’69
  • 237 · Take Care of Joey · ss Knight Jan ’71
  • 247 · Story Notes · Paul Williams · bi


  • Slow Sculpture, Volume XII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
  • Theodore Sturgeon; edited by Noël Sturgeon
  • Date: 2009-10-20
  • ISBN: 978-1-55643-834-9 [1-55643-834-6]
  • Publisher: North Atlantic Books
  • Price: $35.00
  • Pages: xi+299
  • Cover: Slow Sculpture, Volume XII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon by Paula Morrison
  • Notes: $43.00 in Canada. The copyright page contains complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including both the ISBN (978-1-55643-661-1) and the LCCN (2009031693). "Cover photo collage and book design by Paula Morrison" stated on the copyright page. Noël Sturgeon takes over editorship of the series from Paul Williams starting with this volume, and credited as such on the title page. Even so, a short bio of Paul Williams is printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.

  • Case and the Dreamer, Volume XIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
  • Theodore Sturgeon; edited by Noël Sturgeon
  • Date: 2010-09-28
  • ISBN: 978-1-55643-934-6 [1-55643-934-2]
  • Publisher: North Atlantic Books
  • Price: $35.00
  • Pages: xviii+375
  • Cover: Case and the Dreamer, Volume XIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon by Paula Morrison
    • Notes: Final volume in "The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon" series. The copyright page contains complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including both the ISBN (978-1-55643-934-6) and the LCCN (2010019205). "Cover and book design by Paula Morrison" stated on the copyright page.
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