Posted on 12/04/2025 5:04:13 PM PST by kawhill
(1918-1985) Working name of US author born Edward Hamilton Waldo in New York City.
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I read all his work that I could get my hands on. I find his books and stories now at project Gutenberg.
I wish PG had a better search capability.
Title: Microcosmic God, what did he call them?
“Killdozer!”
That was the first time I heard of him, that Marvel comic. I should turn in my “Sci-Fi Geek” card just admitting that one. Then I read “If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?” in “Dangerous Visions” and I became a fan. Listened to his “X Minus One” stuff just the other day. That man was out there. lol
I met him at a convention in 1979.
Notable statement he made in his speech-—
“Men and women should stop this battle over feminism. We need each other and could do so much good in the world if we cooperated instead of fighting.”
“Kurt Vonnegut admired fellow sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon and was amused by his fish-related name, leading to the character of Kilgore Trout, a prolific, often ignored sci-fi author whose ideas often drive the plot or comment on the absurdity of life.
The character serves as both a tribute and a projection of Vonnegut’s own experiences as a writer.
In a further nod, author Philip José Farmer wrote a novel, Venus on the Half-Shell, under the Kilgore Trout pseudonym.”
Theodore Sturgeon’s short story “Memorial” was first published in the April 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, appearing shortly after the Hiroshima bombing and exploring themes of nuclear devastation.
When: April 1946.
Where: Astounding Science Fiction magazine.
Short Story Review: Theodore Sturgeon’s “Memorial” (1946) | Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
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Memorial by Theodore Sturgeon - Pointless Philosophical Asides
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He successfully creates a species, the Neoterics, who have fast metabolic rates, quick maturity time, and evolve at an accelerated rate—taking two hundred days to evolve to equal humanity’s current knowledge of science. Microcosmic God I think.
That’s a fishy name.
I had the opportunity to talk with Phillip Jose Farmer and get an autographed book from him.
I loved his World of Tiers and RiverWorld books.
Those were excellent episodes.
I’ve been a Sturgeon fan since I was a kid. I can’t remember the first story of his that I read, but it got me hooked. I own the 13-volume collection of his short stories, and all the novels as well. I don’t know if I have one favorite story, though. A Way of Thinking was really good, but there were so many others.
I never met him, though I lived not many miles from his home for a while in the 70s.
Time to dig out the short stories again.
I read a lot of his stories - seems that I either loved them or disliked them, with very little in between. “Microcosmic God” was my favorite.
40+ years ago I picked up this in a newsstand/bookstore that lasted about six months. Enjoyed it, back when I still read fiction. The short story I think about from time to time is in here, “The Claustrophile”.
https://www.abebooks.com/9780440180067/Stars-Styx-Sturgeon-Theodore-0440180066/plp
Full text here, but is nearly unreadable:
https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v12n04_1956-08/Galaxy_v12n04_1956-08_djvu.txt
Sturgeon’s law - “Ninety percent of everything is crud”
17,033 page book that I found wandering on the 'net. It works, I checked it out, which caused the substantial delay in posting.
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