Book description
The Ledom had made a world without war, without fear - a world in which
each individual was free to love, to create, to explore . . . The Ledom,
a gentle and kindly new race, made their twentieth-century guest,
Charlie Johns, welcome to their paradise. Charlie thought he was in
heaven. But then he found out just where - and when - he was . . . an
Eden turned into a nightmare! 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.
