Theodore Sturgeon

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1948
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • The Perfect Host

    I was fourteen then. I was sitting in the car waiting for Dad to come out of the hospital. . . She was hanging out of a window on the second floor of a near ell of the hospital. Her hair was dank and stringy, her eyes had mud in them, and her teeth w...

  • The Dreaming Jewels

    Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs away from home and joins a carnival. Performing alongside the fireaters, snakemen and "little people," Horty is accepted. But he ...

  • More Than Human

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    A group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover their combined powers renders them superhuman....

  • Caviar

    • / Science Fiction
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    GHOST OF A CHANCE When Gus fell in love with a total stranger, he had no idea that their becoming familiar could turn a trip to the altar into a journey to the grave... SHADOW, SHADOW ON THE WALL Bobby wasn't really a bad little boy. In fact, he...

  • If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

    in Dangerous Visions #3

  • Aliens 4

  • Helix the Cat

    in Astounding
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Case and the Dreamer

    James Blish called him the “finest conscious artist science fiction ever produced.” Kurt Vonnegut based the famous character Kilgore Trout on him. And such luminaries as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Octavia Butler have hailed him as a mentor...

  • The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon



  • Starshine

    Collection of stories, including: Derm Fool (1940); The Haunt (1941); Artnan Process (1941); The World Well Lost (1953); The Pod and the Barrier (1957); How to Kill Aunty (1961). "The World Well Lost" is the first sympathetic portrait of homosexualit...

  • Sturgeon Is Alive and Well

    First published in 1971, this collection of stories includes a foreword by the author and these stories: To Here and the Easel (1954); Slow Sculpture (1970); It's You! (1970); Take Care of Joey (1971); Crate (1970); The Girl Who Knew What They Meant ...

  • Sturgeon in Orbit

  • Visions and Venturers

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  • A Way Home

  • A Touch of Strange

  • Amok Time 12

  • The Cosmic Rape

    Pocket Books, 1979. 2nd printing. This 1958 novel is an expansion of the story, "To Marry Medusa" (Galaxy, August 1958). The plot concerns an extraterrestrial hive mind named Medusa, which has assimilated many worlds and life forms and now targets Ea...

  • Alien Cargo

  • Venus Plus X

    Charlie Johns is living a relatively quiet life in New York City when suddenly, someone snatches him from 61 North 34th Street and delivers him to the strange, future world of Ledom. In this world, technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation...



  • Godbody

    The arrival of a mysterious savior transforms a small town in this provocative parable from “a master storyteller certain to fascinate” (Kurt Vonnegut).   Everything changes when Godbody comes to town. He appears out of nowhere, enig...

  • To Marry Medusa

    [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]

    [Directed by Emily Janice Card]
    [Read by Stefan Rudnicki]

    Up until one minute ago, Gurlick was merely a specimen of homo sapiens, and a substandard specimen at that. B...

  • The Golden Helix

  • The Widget, the Wadget, and Boff

  • Some of Your Blood

    Named one of the Horror Writers Association's Top 40 Horror Books of All Time, Theodore Sturgeon's gripping psychological thriller both fascinates and terrifies with the story of a troubled soldier and his bizarre, violent obsession with vampirism ...

  • Selected Stories

    Theodore Sturgeon was a genuine American master. Praised, revered, and even envied by the likes of Bradbury, Vonnegut, and King, his short stories contain some of his best work.

    In "Thunder and Roses," soon after a nuclear Holocaust, a starlet...

  • And Now the News...

    Written between 1955 and 1957, the 15 stories in And Now the News ... include five previously uncollected stories along with five well-known works, two cowritten with genre legend Robert Heinlein. Spanning his most creative period, these tales show w...

  • The Nail and the Oracle: Volume XI: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon

    This book contains ten major stories by the master of science fiction, fantasy, and horror written during the 1960s. The controversial “If All Men We re Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?” shows the author’s technique of “ask the ...

  • Blabbermouth and Abreaction

    Eddie Gretchen meets Maria Undergaard. They fall madly in love with each other and get married. But like any decent fairy tale, there is a wicked witch, yet who would have thought that the princess herself and witch would be one and the same?Eddie is...

  • Slow Sculpture

    Theodore Sturgeon was a model for his friend Kurt Vonnegut’s legendary character Kilgore Trout, and his work was an acknowledged influence on important younger writers from Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg to Stephen King and Octavia Butler. ...



  • Beware the Fury

    Meet Wolf Reger -- traitor. Compared to him Benedict Arnold was a national hero and Judas Iscariot a paragon of virtue. At least that's the way it showed in the Major's notes….But traitors aren't born that way. Something has to happen to them long ...

  • Microcosmic God

    The second of a planned 10 volumes that will reprint all Sturgeon's short fiction covers his prolific output during 1940 and 1941, after which he suffered five years of writer's block. Showcasing Sturgeon's early penchant for fantasy, the first six s...

  • The Ultimate Egoist

    A collection of the early works of Theodore Sturgeon, acclaimed Grand Master of Science Fiction -- featuring forewords by Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke Although Theodore Sturgeon's reach was limited to the lengths of the ...

  • One Foot And The Grave

    Theodore Sturgeon was a popular science-fiction writer, best-known for his 1953 novel More Than Human. First published in 1949, 'One Foot And The Grave' is ostensibly about witchcraft, and features a hero who develops a cloven hoof. It is one of Stur...

  • And Now the News . . .

    Written between 1955 and 1957, the 15 stories in And Now the News ... include five previously uncollected stories along with five well-known works, two cowritten with genre legend Robert Heinlein. Spanning his most creative period, these tales show w...

  • Baby Is Three

    Baby Is Three is the sixth volume in the series devoted to the complete works of one of science fiction's titans. Like others in the series, this one includes extensive notes and background information on each story by editor Paul Williams. The early...

  • Bright Segment

    Sci-fi master Theodore Sturgeon wrote stories with power and freshness, and in telling them created a broader understanding of humanity -- a legacy for readers and writers to mine for generations. Along with the title story, the collection includes s...

  • Killdozer!

    Discover tales of murderous hive minds, possessed bulldozers, crash-landed aliens in this collection of classic science fiction short stories -- from the Hugo and Nebula Award"winning master of the genre. Killdozer! is the third volume of a series ...

  • The Man Who Lost the Sea

    By the winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards, this latest volume finds Theodore Sturgeon in fine form as he gains recognition for the first time as a literary short story writer. Written between 1957 and 1960, ...

  • A Saucer of Loneliness

    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 Thi...



  • Thunder and Roses

    Thunder and Roses is the fourth volume in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Included in Thunder and Roses are 15 stories, with major works like "Maturity," "The Professor's Teddy Bear," "A Way Home," and the title story, in addition to two w...

  • I, Libertine

    The novel that began as a radio hoax, Theodore Sturgeon’s "I, Libertine" is a hilarious erotic romp through the royal boudoirs of eighteenth century London Inspired by a notorious radio hoax in the mid-1950s, popular radio host and prankster Jea...

  • The Sky Was Full of Ships

    The torch could cut through anything -- a practical device invented long before it should have been. It was so advance, not even alien technology could stand against it. And that was the problem......

  • Memory

    From Hugo and Nebula Award Winner Theodore Sturgeon.Jeremy Jedd stood in the igneous dust of the spaceport margin, staring into the sky and shading his eyes with his arm. Occasionally he checked the time by his ristkron, shaking it to make sure it wa...

  • Bianca's Hands

    in The Unspeakable People
    • / Horror
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Theodore Sturgeon has published 44 books.

Theodore Sturgeon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Memory, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Theodore Sturgeon, The Perfect Host, was published in November 1948.

No. Theodore Sturgeon does not write books in series.
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