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Theodore Sturgeon Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Feb 26, 1918
  • Died: May 8, 1985

Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction and horror writer and critic. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with about 400 reviews and more than 200 stories.

Sturgeon's most famous work may be the science fiction More Than Human, an expansion of "Baby Is Three". More Than Human won the 1954 International Fantasy Award as the year's best novel and the Science Fiction Writers of America ranked "Baby is Three" number five among the "Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time" to 1964.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Sturgeon in 2000, its fifth class of two deceased and two living writers.

Writing is a communication. communication

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. poetry & science

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. dreams

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. science

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. science

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28 wisdom & wit from William Butler Yeats

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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill

74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill