Starshine
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Book Overview
First Jove/HBJ edition published November 1977. Collection of stories, including: Derm Fool (1940); The Haunt (1941); Artnan Process (1941); The World Well Lost (1953); The Pod and the Barrier (1957);... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0515044598
ISBN13:9780515044591
Release Date:January 1977
Publisher:Jove Books
Length:174 Pages
Weight:0.24 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Great light reading
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I remember Harlan Ellison writing about his dead friends in Angry Candy and being particularly angry with an obituary writer that didn't know Theodore Sturgeon. After reading this book, I can see why. Sturgeon was one of those strange brilliant writers that managed to push the genre past the pure science/theoretical/rocket ship ghetto. His characters are slightly borsht belt (even lower east side) but his grasp of the human experience is excellent. While many of these stories are the genre tropes - the weak man trying to kill his overbearing aunt, the space con artists against the slightly befuddled aliens, the haunted house - they manage to feel fresh under the expert hand of Sturgeon. Granted, once the book is over you forget it, but it's wonderful light reading and deserves classic status much more than the current batch of "classics" from that era (no I didn't like Saul Bellow. I found Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) a plodding mess. And don't even get me started on Arthur Miller)
A pretty good book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This is a book with a collection of short stories that deal with issues of love, exploration and discovery, hate, appearances and the unknown plus many other areas and ideas... It is an interesting book that holds the reader as you often reflect on what is said.. I found it interesting and entertaining.
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