More Than Human Resources

Websites

All Things Sturgeon…Except the Fish.

This is the headquarters for Sturgeon stuff online. It's maintained by physicist Eric R. Weeks, Ph.D.. This has or links to, like, basically everything you want to know about Sturgeon or his fiction.

Prolific is an Understatement

You want a list of pretty much everything Sturgeon ever wrote? Find it here, thanks to William F. Seabrook. His bibliography also includes reviews and criticism of Sturgeon's work, and biographies about the author.

Trust in Sturgeon

The copyright-holders to his work maintain a helpful site with lots of info, including where to buy his books. Thanks!

Better Call Toto

Dorothy might not be in Kansas anymore, but Sturgeon's papers are. His work is archived at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, home to the Center for the Study of Science Fiction. So, if you're as obsessed with More Than Human as we are, you can go to the Library and look at the original manuscript of the novel.

The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award

This page lists authors who have won the annual Sturgeon prize for best science fiction short story. The list might help you find stories in a similar style to his.

"The Man Who Lost the Sea"

Strange Horizons re-printed one of Sturgeon's better-known short stories online. You can read the whole thing for free, which is pretty nifty. Yeah, the story is really challenging to understand, but we think it's worth it.

Recipe for Theodore Sturgeon's Butterfly Eggs

A recipe from Sturgeon's 1981 short story "Seasoning," which is about free will, predestination, and people writing scripts for their lives. There's a picture of the butterfly eggs, which look pretty gross.

Articles and Interviews

Theodore Sturgeon, Storyteller

In 1976, this awesome rock-music critic dude Paul Williams wrote an essay about the author. Williams also edited The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon.

"The Push From Within"

Every college has a literary magazine, right? Well, in 1979, David D. Duncan interviewed Sturgeon and published in Phoenix, a University of Tennessee literary magazine.

"Yesterday's Tomorrows: Theodore Sturgeon"

Locus Magazine is pretty much the industry magazine for science fiction and fantasy writers, and in 2010 they printed this article by critic Graham Sleight. Sleight discusses how Sturgeon's stories and novels target readers' emotions.

Video

Meet Theodore Sturgeon

Open Road Media is trying to make Sturgeon a better-known author. They created this short video of contemporary science fiction writers discussing his relevance.

Audio

Theodore Sturgeon Poetry Interview

Sturgeon discusses his poetic style in this rare radio interview from 1953 or thereabouts. His segment begins fifteen minutes in.

Images

Original Cover Art

This image shows the original cover illustrations for the first hardback and first paperback editions of More Than Human. We think they look pretty far out.

Theodore Sturgeon

Patti Perret photograph of Sturgeon wearing his "Q" pendant, which symbolizes his credo "Ask the Next Question." We want one.