Book description
All alone: an idiot boy, a runaway girl, a severely retarded baby, and
twin girls with a vocabulary of two words between them. Yet once they
are mysteriously drawn together this collection of misfits becomes
something very, very different from the rest of humanity. This intensely
written and moving novel is an extraordinary vision of humanity's next
step. First published in 1952, More Than Human won the Retro Hugo Award
for Best Novel. Theodore Sturgeon (1918 - 1985) Theodore Sturgeon was
born Edward Hamilton Waldo in New York City in 1918. Sturgeon was not a
pseudonym; his name was legally changed after his parents' divorce.
After selling his first SF story to Astounding in 1939, he travelled for
some years, only returning in earnest in 1946. He produced a great body
of acclaimed short fiction (SF's premier short story award is named in
his honour) as well as a number of novels, including More Than Human,
which was awarded the 1954 retro-Hugo in 2004. In addition to coining
Sturgeon's Law - '90% of everything is crud' - he wrote the screenplays
for seminal Star Trek episodes 'Shore Leave' and 'Amok Time', inventing
the famous Vulcan mating ritual, the pon farr.
