A Saucer of Loneliness: Volume VII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon

This volume includes 12 stories, written between autumn 1952 and autumn 1953, from 20th-century science fiction and fantasy writer Theodore Sturgeon, including A Saucer of Loneliness, The Silken-Swift and The World Well Lost. A Saucer of Loneliness The Touch of Your Hand The World Well Lost And My Fear Is Great The Wages of Synergy The Dark Room Talent A Way of Thinking The Silken-Swift The Clinic Mr. Costello, Hero The Education of Drusilla Strange

kurt Vonnegut Cites Theodore Sturgeon As The Inspiration For His Character Kilgore Trout. This Volume Includes 12 Stories From 1953, Considered Sturgeon's Golden Era. Among Them Are Such Favorites As The Title Story, "the Silken-swift," "a Way Of Thinking," "the Dark Room," "the Clinic," And "the World Well Lost," A Story Known For Being Very Ahead Of Its Time In Advocating Gay Rights.

The second volume of short stories by Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), one of the great figures in science fiction. The title story is on an unusual relationship that forms between a scientist and the microbes he creates in his laboratory IF SHE'S DEAD, I THOUGHT, I'll never find her in this white flood of moonlight on the white sea, with the surf seething in and over the pale, pale sand like a great shampoo.