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The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon 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 Revised by www.spikynorman.net - 19 May 2020 Series published in hardback by http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/ and in eBooks from https://www.sfgateway.com/ 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.
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