The complete stories of Theodore Sturgeon

Volume One: The Ultimate Egoist (1994), Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Gene Wolfe Volume Two: Microcosmic God (1995), Samuel R. Delany Volume Three: Killdozer! (1996), Robert Silverberg, Robert A. Heinlein Volume Four: Thunder and Roses (1997), James Gunn Volume Five: The Perfect Host (1998), Larry McCaffery Volume Six: Baby is Three (1999), David Crosby Volume Seven: A Saucer of Loneliness (2000), Kurt Vonnegut Volume Eight: Bright Segment (2002), William Tenn (Phil Klass) Volume Nine: And Now the News ... (2003), David G. Hartwell Volume Ten: The Man Who Lost the Sea (2005), Jonathan Lethem Volume Eleven: The Nail and the Oracle (2007), Harlan Ellison Volume Twelve: Slow Sculpture (2009), Connie Willis, Spider Robinson Volume Thirteen: Case and the Dreamer (2010), P. S. Beagle, D. Notkin, Paul Williams

Published by North Atlantic books : http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/ Published by Gateway eBooks : https://www.sfgateway.com/ Volume One Ether Breather 148 The Ultimate Egoist Her Choice 163 Cajun Providence 166 Foreword: Ray Bradbury ix Strike Three 169 Foreward: Arthur C. Clarke xii Contact! 172 Foreward: Gene Wolfe xiv The Call 175 Heavy Insurance 3 Helix the Cat 178 The Heart 6 To Shorten Sail 204 Cellmate 10 Thanksgiving Again 207 Fluffy 23 Bianca’s Hands 217 Alter Ego 31 Derm Fool 226 Mailed through a Porthole 35 He Shuttles 242 A Noose of Light 40 Turkish Delight 262 Strangers on a Train 50 Niobe 265 Accidentally on Porpoise 55 Mahout 270 The Right Line 70 The Long Arm 273 Golden Day 83 The Man on the Steps 276 Permit Me My Gesture 86 Punctuational Advice 279 Watch My Smoke 89 Place of Honor 282 The Other Cheek 92 The Ultimate Egoist 285 Extraordinary Seaman 95 It 303 One Sick Kid 104 Butyl and the Breather 328 His Good Angel 107 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams Some People Forget 11O 351 A God in a Garden 113 Afterword: Look About You by Theodore East Is East 139 Sturgeon 387 Three People 142 Eyes of Blue 14 5

Volume Two Poker Face 194 Microcosmic God Nightmare Island 206 The Purple Light 235 Foreword: Samuel R. Delany vii Artnan Process 241 Cargo 3 Biddiver 265 Shottle Bop 32 The Golden Egg 289 Yesterday Was Monday 59 Two Percent Inspiration 309 Brat 77 The Jumper 329 The Anonymous 95 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams Two Sidecars 123 347 Microcosmic God 127 Afterword: Microcosmic God (Unfinished The Haunt 157 Early Draft) 369 Completely Automatic 175

Volume Three Noon Gun 197 Killdozer ! Bulldozer Is a Noun 211 August Sixth, 1945 227 Foreword: Robert Silverberg ix The Chromium Helmet 231 Blabbermouth 1 Memorial 283 Medusa 26 Mewhu’s Jet 297 Ghost of a Chance 48 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams The Bones 65 (including the original ending of Killdozer! The Hag Seleen 84 and the unpublished alternate ending of Killdozer! 104 Mewhu’s Jet) 335 Abreaction 177 Afterword: Robert A. Heinlein 361 Poor Yorick 190 Crossfire 194 Volume Four Wham Bop! 183 Thunder and Roses Well Spiced 197 Hurricane Trio 214 Foreword by James Gunn ix That Low 245 Maturity 1 Memory 250 Tiny and the Monster 60 There Is No Defense 273 The Sky Was Full of Ships 97 The Professor’s Teddy Bear 321 Largo 109 A Way Home 332 Thunder and Roses 125 Story Notes by Paul Williams 340 It Wasn’t Syzygy 150 Appendix: The original second half of The Blue Letter 179 Maturity 359

Volume Five The Dark Goddess 201 The perfect host Scars 2I5 Messenger 223 Foreword: Larry McCaffery ix Minority Report 235 Quietly 1 Prodigy 257 The Music 18 Farewell to Eden 269 Unite and Conquer 20 One Foot and the Grave 283 The Love of Heaven 63 What Dead Men Tell 324 Till Death Do Us Join 78 The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast 353 The Perfect Host 92 Story Notes bv Paul Williams 362 The Martian and the Moron 141 Die, Maestro, Die! 167

Volume Six The Incubi of Parallel X 238 Baby is three Never Underestimate 293 The Sex Opposite 3 12 Foreword: David Crosby ix Baby Is Three 340 Shadow, Shadow on the Wall I Afteword: Story Notes by Paul Williams The Stars Are the Styx 11 401 Rule of Three 54 Afteword: Apendix Two Autobiographical Make Room for Me 92 Essays 416 Special Aptitude 119 The Traveling Crag 137 Excalibur and the Atom 171

Volume Seven A Way of Thinking 247 A Saucer of Loneliness The Silken-Swift 277 The Clinic 297 Foreword: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr ix Mr. Costello, Hero 311 A Saucer of Loneliness 1 The Education of Drusilla Strange 339 The Touch of Your Hand 15 Story Notes by Paul Williams 375 The World Well Lost 61 ... And My Fear Is Great. 81 The Wages of Synergy 145 The Dark Room 195 Talent 237 Volume Eight The Riddle of Ragnarok 291 Bright segment Twink 311 Bright Segment 329 Foreword: William Tenn ix So Near the Darkness 355 Cactus Dance 1 Story Notes by Paul Williams 389 The Golden Helix 27 Clockwise 403 Extrapolation 85 Smoke! 405 Granny Won’t Knit 115 To Here and the Easel 175 When You’re Smiling 229 Bulkhead 259

Volume Nine The Waiting Thing Inside (with Don And Now the News.... Ward) 205 The Deadly Innocent (with Don Ward) Foreword: David G. Hartwell ix 223 “Won’t You Walk?” 1 And Now the News 239 New York Vignette 31 The Girl Had Guts 261 The Half-Way Tree Murder 35 The Other Celia 287 The Skills of Xanadu 51 Affair with a Green Monkey 305 The Claustrophile 81 The Pod in the Barrier 317 Dead Dames Don’t Dial 113 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams 351 Fear Is a Business 131 The Other Man 151

Volume Ten The Man Who Figured Everything (with The Man who lost the sea Don Ward) 167 Like Young 195 Foreword: Jonathan Lethem ix Night Ride 203 A Crime for Llewellyn 1 Need 217 It Opens the Sky 33 How to Kill Aunty 273 A Touch of Strange 79 Tandy’s Story 297 The Comedian’s Children 93 Afterword:Story Notes by Paul Williams The Graveyard Reader 139 321 The Man Who Told Lies 153 The Man Who Lost the Sea 155

Volume Eleven The Nail and the Oracle If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? Foreword: Abiding with Sturgeon: Mistral 137 in the Bijou by Harlan Ellison ix Runesmith (with Harlan Ellison) 181 Ride In, Ride Out (with Don Ward) 1 Jorry’s Gap 199 Assault and Little Sister 25 Brownshoes 211 When You Care, When You Love 43 It Was Nothing-Really! 223 Holdup a la Carte 85 Take Care of Joey 237 How to Forget Baseball 95 Story Notes by Paul Williams 247 The Nail and the Oracle 117 Volume Twelve Dazed 247 Slow Sculpture Pruzy’s Pot 273 Afterword: Afterword to “Pruzy’s Pot” by Foreword: Theodore Sturgeon and “The Spider Robinson 285 Man Who Lost the Sea” by Connie Willis ix Afterword: Story Notes by Noel Sturgeon The [Widget], the [Wadget], and BoH I 289 The Beholders 87 Afterword: About Theodore Sturgeon 299 It’s You! 93 Slow Sculpture 101 The Girl Who Knew What They Meant 123 The Patterns of Dorne 131 Crate 147 Suicide 159 Uncle Fremmis 169 Necessary and Sufficient 185 The Verity File 205 Occam’s Scalpel 223

Volume Thirten Time Warp 135 Case and the Dreamer The Country of Afterward 157 Like Yesterday 179 Foreword: Theodore Sturgeon and The Why Dolphins Don’t Bite 191 Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle xi Vengeance Is 255 Foreword: Lifelong Passion: Theodore Stur- Seasoning 263 geon’s Fiction, by Debbie Notkin xv Not an Affair 275 Tuesdays are Worse 3 Black Moccasins 297 Case and the Dreamer 11 The Trick 303 Agnes, Accent and Access 55 Grizzly 317 Ingenious Aylmer 71 Afterword: Theodore Sturgeon Storyteller The Sheriff of Chayute 73 by Paul Williams 327 The Mysterium 87 Afterword: Story Notes, by Noel Sturgeon “I Love Maple Walnut” 101 355 Blue Butter 103 Afterword: Index of Stories in The Com- The Singsong of Cecily Snow 111 plete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Harry’s Note 117

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Volume 01 One: The Ultimate Egoist, (1994), Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Gene Wolfe Volume 02 Two: Microcosmic God, (1995), Samuel R. Delany Volume 03 Three: Killdozer!, (1996), Robert Silverberg, Robert A. Heinlein Agnes, Accent and Access 55,V13 Volume 04 Four: Thunder and Roses, (1997), James Gunn Alter Ego 3 I,V01 Volume 05 Five: The Perfect Host, (1998), Larry McCaffery And Now the News 239,V09 Volume 06 Six: Baby is Three, (1999), David Crosby The Anonymous 95,V02 Volume 07 Seven: A Saucer of Loneliness, (2000), Kurt Vonnegut Appendix: The original second half of Maturity 359,V04 Volume 08 Eight: Bright Segment, (2002), William Tenn, Phil Klass Artnan Process 241,V02 Volume 09 Nine: And Now the News ..., (2003), David G. Hartwell Assault and Little Sister 25,V11 Volume 10 Ten: The Man Who Lost the Sea, (2005), Jonathan Lethem August Sixth, 1945 227,V03 Volume 11 Eleven: The Nail and the Oracle, (2007), Harlan Ellison Volume 12 Twelve: Slow Sculpture, (2009), Connie Willis, Spider Robinson Baby Is Three 340,V06 Volume 13 Thirteen: Case and the Dreamer, (2010), Peter S. Beagle, Debbie Notkin, The Beholders 87,V12 Paul Williams Bianca’s Hands 217,V01 Biddiver 265,V02 ... And My Fear Is Great. 81,V07 Blabbermouth 1,V03 A Crime for Llewellyn I,V10 Black Moccasins 297,V13 A God in a Garden 113,V01 Blue Butter 103,V13 A Noose of Light 40,V01 The Blue Letter 179,V04 A Saucer of Loneliness 1,V07 The Bones 65,V03 A Touch of Strange 79,V10 Brat 77,V02 A Way Home 332,V04 Bright Segment 329,V08 A Way of Thinking 247,V07 Brownshoes 211,V11 Abreaction 177,V03 Bulkhead 259,V08 Accidentally on Porpoise 55,V01 Bulldozer Is a Noun 211,V03 Affair with a Green Monkey 305,V09 Butyl and the Breather 328,V01 Afterword: About Theodore Sturgeon 299,V12 Afterword: Afterword to “Pruzy’s Pot” by Spider Robinson 285,V12 Cactus Dance 1,V08 Afterword: Apendix Two Autobiographical Essays 416,V06 Cajun Providence 166,V01 Afterword: Index of Stories in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. 399,V13 The Call 175,V01 Afterword: Look About You by Theodore Sturgeon 387,V01 Cargo 3,V02 Afterword: Microcosmic God (Unfinished Early Draft) 369,V02 Case and the Dreamer 11,V13 Afterword: Robert A. Heinlein 361,V03 Cellmate 10,V01 Afterword: Story Notes by Noel Sturgeon 289,V12 The Chromium Helmet 231,V03 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams 321,V10 The Claustrophile 81,V09 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams 347,V02 The Clinic 297,V07 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams 351,V01 Clockwise 403,V08 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams 359,V09 The Comedian’s Children 93,V10 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams 401,V06 Completely Automatic 175,V02 Afterword: Story Notes by Paul Williams (including the original ending of Killdozer! Contact! 172,V01 and the unpublished alternate ending of Mewhu’s Jet) 335,V03 The Country of Afterward 157,V13 Afterword: Story Notes, by Noel Sturgeon 355,V13 Crate 147,V12 Afterword: Theodore Sturgeon Storyteller by Paul Williams 327,V13 Crossfire 194,V03 Need 217,V10 The Dark Goddess 201,V05 Never Underestimate 293,V06 The Dark Room 195,V07 New York Vignette 31,V09 Dazed 247,V12 Night Ride 203,V10 Dead Dames Don’t Dial 113,V09 Nightmare Island 206,V02 The Deadly Innocent (with Don Ward) 223,V09 Niobe 265,V01 Derm Fool 226,V01 Noon Gun 197,V03 Die, Maestro, Die! 167,V05 Not an Affair 275,V13

East Is East 139,V01 Occam’s Scalpel 223,V12 The Education of Drusilla Strange 339,V07 One Foot and the Grave 283,V05 Ether Breather 148,V01 One Sick Kid 104,V01 Excalibur and the Atom 171,V06 The Other Celia 287,V09 Extraordinary Seaman 95,V01 The Other Cheek 92,V01 Extrapolation 85,V08 The Other Man 151,V09 Eyes of Blue 14 5,V01 The Patterns of Dorne 131,V12 The Perfect Host 92,V05 Farewell to Eden 269,V05 Fear Is a Business 131,V09 Permit Me My Gesture 86,V01 Fluffy 23,V01 Place of Honor 282,V01 Foreward: Arthur C. Clarke xii,V01 The Pod in the Barrier 317,V09 Foreward: Gene Wolfe xiv,V01 Poker Face 194,V02 Foreword by James Gunn ix,V04 Poor Yorick 190,V03 Foreword: Abiding with Sturgeon: Mistral in the Bijou by Harlan Ellison ix,V11 Prodigy 257,V05 Foreword: David Crosby ix,V06 The Professor’s Teddy Bear 321,V04 Foreword: David G. Hartwell ix,V09 Pruzy’s Pot 273,V12 Foreword: Jonathan Lethem ix,V10 Punctuational Advice 279,V01 Foreword: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr ix,V07 The Purple Light 235,V02 Foreword: Larry McCaffery ix,V05 Foreword: Lifelong Passion: Theodore Sturgeon’s Fiction, by Debbie Notkin xv,V13 Quietly 1,V05 Foreword: Ray Bradbury ix,V01 Foreword: Robert Silverberg ix,V03 The Riddle of Ragnarok 291,V08 Foreword: Samuel R. Delany vii,V02 Ride In, Ride Out (with Don Ward) I,V11 Foreword: Theodore Sturgeon and “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Connie Willis ix,V12 The Right Line 70,V01 Foreword: Theodore Sturgeon and The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle xi,V13 Rule of Three 54,V06 Foreword: William Tenn ix,V08 Runesmith (with Harlan Ellison) 181,V11

Ghost of a Chance 48,V03 Scars 2I5,V05 The Girl Had Guts 261,V09 Seasoning 263,V13 The Girl Who Knew What They Meant 123,V12 The Sex Opposite 3 12,V06 Golden Day 83,V01 Shadow, Shadow on the Wall I,V06 The Golden Egg 289,V02 The Sheriff of Chayute 73,V13 The Golden Helix 27,V08 Shottle Bop 32,V02 Granny Won’t Knit 115,V08 The Silken-Swift 277,V07 The Graveyard Reader 139,V10 The Singsong of Cecily Snow 111,V13 Grizzly 317,V13 The Skills of Xanadu 51,V09 The Sky Was Full of Ships 97,V04 The Hag Seleen 84,V03 Slow Sculpture 101,V12 The Half-Way Tree Murder 35,V09 Smoke! 405,V08 Harry’s Note 117,V13 So Near the Darkness 355,V08 The Haunt 157,V02 Some People Forget 11O,V01 He Shuttles 242,V01 Special Aptitude 119,V06 The Heart 6,V01 The Stars Are the Styx 11,V06 Heavy Insurance 3,V01 Story Notes by Paul Williams 247,V11 Helix the Cat 178,V01 Story Notes by Paul Williams 340,V04 Her Choice 163,V01 Story Notes bv Paul Williams 362,V05 His Good Angel 107,V01 Story Notes by Paul Williams 375,V07 Holdup a la Carte 85,V11 Story Notes by Paul Williams 389,V08 How to Forget Baseball 95,V11 Strangers on a Train 50,V01 How to Kill Aunty 273,V10 Strike Three 169,V01 The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast 353,V05 Suicide 159,V12 Hurricane Trio 214,V04 Take Care of Joey 237,V11 “I Love Maple Walnut” 101,V13 Talent 237,V07 If All Men Were Brothers,,V11 Tandy’s Story 297,V10 The Incubi of Parallel X 238,V06 Thanksgiving Again 207,V01 Ingenious Aylmer 71,V13 That Low 245,V04 It 303,V01 There Is No Defense 273,V04 It Opens the Sky 33,V10 Three People 142,V01 It Was Nothing-Really! 223,V11 Thunder and Roses 125,V04 It Wasn’t Syzygy 150,V04 Till Death Do Us Join 78,V05 It’s You! 93,V12 Time Warp 135,V13 Tiny and the Monster 60,V04 Jorry’s Gap 199,V11 To Here and the Easel 175,V08 The Jumper 329,V02 To Shorten Sail 204,V01 Killdozer! 104,V03 The Touch of Your Hand 15,V07 The Traveling Crag 137,V06 Largo 109,V04 The Trick 303,V13 Like Yesterday 179,V13 Tuesdays are Worse 3,V13 Like Young 195,V10 Turkish Delight 262,V01 The Long Arm 273,V01 Twink 311,V08 The Love of Heaven 63,V05 Two Percent Inspiration 309,V02 Two Sidecars 123,V02 Mahout 270,V01 The Ultimate Egoist 285,V01 Mailed through a Porthole 35,V01 Make Room for Me 92,V06 Uncle Fremmis 169,V12 The Man Who Figured Everything (with Don Ward) 167,V10 Unite and Conquer 20,V05 The Man Who Lost the Sea ISS,V10 The Man Who Told Lies 153,V10 Vengeance Is 255,V13 The Man on the Steps 276,V01 The Verity File 205,V12 The Martian and the Moron 141,V05 The Wages of Synergy 145,V07 Maturity 1,V04 The Waiting Thing Inside (with Don Ward) 205,V09 Medusa 26,V03 Watch My Smoke 89,V01 Memorial 283,V03 Well Spiced 197,V04 Memory 250,V04 The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff I,V12 Messenger 223,V05 Wham Bop! 183,V04 Mewhu’s Jet 297,V03 What Dead Men Tell 324,V05 Microcosmic God 127,V02 When You Care, When You Love 43,V11 Minority Report 235,V05 When You’re Smiling 229,V08 Mr. Costello, Hero 311,V07 Why Dolphins Don’t Bite 191,V13 The Music 18,V05 “Won’t You Walk?” 1,V09 The Mysterium 87,V13 The World Well Lost 61,V07 Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? 137,V11 The Nail and the Oracle 117,V11 Necessary and Sufficient 185,V12 Yesterday Was Monday 59,V02