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More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon, published in 1953, is a classic of science fiction that explores the next step in human evolution

The book revolves around a group of extraordinary individuals with psychic abilities who merge into a single, superior entity called the Gestalt. This idea was ahead of its time, influencing later depictions of telepathy and group consciousness

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Muro deGrizeco

"The aluminum thing would be beside his breakfast plate or in the bathroom with his toothbrush thrust into it. Once he found it in his pocket where the small roll of bills appeared regularly; he pulled the money out and let the tubing fall. Once, when he tried to put his shoe on and could not, he tipped it out onto the floor and let it lie there. Janie never mentioned it. She just quietly put it in his path, time and again."

man remembers discovering a rusted hulk of a truck, with strange apparatus underneath, silver tubing and a box with controls. A lever is yanked and the truck lifts free of the dirt and rises up into the sky, as he desperately tries to stop it.
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Muro deGrizeco

"But after that first shared meal there was a difference. Never again did he ignore the fact that she was not eating. He went to the market with her and carried the packages. He remembered his name; he even remembered that the "Hip" was for "Hippocrates." He was, however, unable to remember how he came by the name, where he had been born, or anything else about himself. She did not urge him. She simply waited."

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Muro deGrizeco

"She considered him carefully, then reached for her handbag. She took out a short piece of metal tubing. It was flexible.

She turned his right hand palm up and put the tubing into it. He must have seen it, but his expression did not change.

Finally the piece of tubing fell to the floor when he reached for a piece of toast. She said nothing."

woman in graphic novel tries to get man with telepathically induced amnesia to recognise an artifact
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BonnettsBooks

12/11/23 Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open containers, please.

It's unusual here, for so many popular topics & titles to be in one box. I must've once prioritized these, promptly been swamped, & forgotten them... 'til now!

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A photo of a neat stack of 10 books, as follows, from to to bottom: 1. J.R.R. TOLKIEN – THE ENCHANTING PRELUDE TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS – THE HOBBIT. 2. theodore sturgeon – Aliens 4. 3. Go Ask Alice – Anonymous. 4. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ESSENTIAL VISUAL HISTORY – WORLD MYTHOLOGY. 5. RIGGS – MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN. 6. THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS – MIYAMOTO MUSASHI. 7. HARRER – SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. 8. CG JUNG – Synchronicity. 9. THE Five LOVE LANGUAGES – CHAPMAN. 10. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN – Mark Twain.
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Sean Eric Fagan

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www.amazon.comAmazon.com: The Perfect Host: Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon eBook : Sturgeon, Theodore, Williams, Paul, McCaffery, Larry: Kindle StoreThe Perfect Host: Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon - Kindle edition by Sturgeon, Theodore, Williams, Paul, McCaffery, Larry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Perfect Host: Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon.
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Sean Eric Fagan

(Oh, that doesn't mean that story is in this collection. I haven't looked at the ToC yet.)

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www.amazon.comAmazon.com: Killdozer!: Volume III: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon eBook : Sturgeon, Theodore, Williams, Paul, Silverberg, Robert, Heinlein, Robert A.: Kindle StoreKilldozer!: Volume III: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon - Kindle edition by Sturgeon, Theodore, Williams, Paul, Silverberg, Robert, Heinlein, Robert A.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Killdozer!: Volume III: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon.
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Bogi Takács

Today on my Patreon: I posted my Sturgeon Symposium presentation (there will be an article version later for everyone, G-d willing; but this is a fun bonus for backers :) )

It's titled "Transcendent Sharing" - Early Counter-Imaginaries of Gendered Magical Power in American Speculation.

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Patreon[Backers only] The angry psychic youth :D | PatreonJoin Bogi Takács on Patreon to get access to this post and more benefits.
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BonnettsBooks

9/20/23 Open 6-9p. No open food/drink containers, please.

This book is a beater but still a treasure. That's the way it goes, sometimes. I may keep it. Sci-fi by authors you might not expect, plus known entities of the genre and then some!

#BonnettsBooks #DaytonOhio #UsedBookStore #EMForster #RudyardKipling #JohnDMacDonald #WilliamHopeHodgson #ArthurCClarke #MurrayLeinster #TheodoreSturgeon #RayBradbury #MargaretStClair #MilesJBreuerMD #ARowleyHilliard #LaurenceManning #PermaBooks
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Photo of small hardcover book and Contents page. Black ink illustration on bright yellow cover: Pointy 1940s rocketships fly among stylized stars above a spiked, rocky planetscape with a startled humanoid silhouette on a path toward the rocks. Title and credit in bold red sans-serif text. Other text in black, as follows: 35¢ IN CANADA 39¢ THE SCIENCE FICTION GALAXY TWELVE OUTSTANDING STORIES BY TOP WRITERS in this popular new field of fiction. Imaginative, challenging, fantastic, often prophetic, and always exciting entertainment. P67 PERMABOOKS Edited by GROFF CONKLIN Spine of book missing. Covers firmly attached. Clear tape covers rough exposed spine and wraps around edges of front and back. ——— Black type on slightly age-toned pulp-paper page: CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ix WORLDS OF TOMORROW E. M. FORSTER: THE MACHINE STOPS – 1 RUDYARD KIPLING: EASY AS A. B. C. – 39 WONDERS OF THE EARTH WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON: THE DERELICT – 72 ARTHUR C. CLARKE: THE FIRES WITHIN – 103 DANGEROUS INVENTIONS JOHN D. MACDONALD: A CHILD IS CRYING – 115 MARGARET ST. CLAIR: QUIS CUSTODIET... ? – 131 OTHER DIMENSIONS MURRAY LEINSTER: THE LIFE WORK OF PROFESSOR MUNTZ – 144 MILES J. BREUER, M.D.: THE APPENDIX AND THE SPECTACLES – 160 FROM OUTER SPACE A. ROWLEY HILLIARD: DEATH FROM THE STARS – 175 THEODORE STURGEON: THE HURKLE IS A HAPPY BEAST – 197 FAR TRAVELING RAY BRADBURY: KING OF THE GREY SPACES – 208 LAURENCE MANNING: THE LIVING GALAXY – 227
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#TheodoreSturgeon (1918-1985) #BOTD

American #Fantasy, #ScienceFiction & #Horror writer. He wrote the #StarTrek episodes "Shore Leave" & "Amok Time”, featuring the first appearance of pon farr, the Vulcan mating ritual, #LiveLongandProsper & the 🖖 symbol. He also wrote Trek scripts that weren’t produced, one of these introducing the Prime Directive. The SF&F HOF inducted Sturgeon in 2000.

Sturgeon’s Law: "90% of [science fiction] is crud, but then, 90% of everything is crud."

The cover to Fantastic Adventures, February 1950 by Robert Gibson Jones which illustrates Theodore Sturgeon’s “The Dreaming Jewels.” Surrounded by hideous creatures a red-haired beauty in a gold skirt with matching top holds aloft two jewels in her hands which stuns the crowd with their brilliance.
The Pyramid Books 1960 first printing of “The Strangest Science-Fiction Novel Theodore Sturgeon Has Ever Written,” “Venus Plus X” illustrated by Victor Kalin. In the foreground what appears to be an ancient marble statue of a woman, her arms missing and lost to time. In the background two indecipherable figures appear.
“The First NEW Collection In Years From THE Master of Science Fiction,” “Sturgeon In Orbit,” “Stories by Theodore Sturgeon.” The Pyramid Books 1964 first printing with cover by Ed Emshwiller. A profile of Sturgeon’s head atop some odd Emshwiller space machinery/vortex sporting devil horns and a halo as a blonde woman and a creature flee from the top of his head. Nearby an astronaut is miserable, a mermaid rides a unicorn, and an infant takes it all in.
This 1972 Marvel comic screams “Supernatural Thrillers featuring IT! From the World-Famous Chiller by THEODORE STURGEON.” “The THING That Couldn’t Die!” Issue #1 cover by Jim Steranko. Inside is an adaptation of the story by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. "It" is a horror short story first published in John W. Campbell’s “Unknown” of August, 1940. The story deals with a muck-monster that emerges from a swamp, and terrorizes a family who lives nearby. The creature has no emotions, and is simply curious about the things that it observes. Its terrifying strength allows it to grab animals and people and tear them apart, to see how they work. Ultimately, the creature is revealed to have formed around a human skeleton. P. Schuyler Miller described "It" as "probably the most unforgettable story ever published in Unknown". The story was published in book form in Sturgeon's first short story collection, Without Sorcery (1948). The story inspired many similar characters in comic books, including The Heap, Swamp Thing and Man-Thing.
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