the Theodore Sturgeon Page

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Ted Sturgeon, pic by W. Sturgeon

You may be looking for The Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust: the Literary Trust page has information about the new books being published by North Atlantic Books, which include some previously unpublished short stories. The TS Literary Trust are the folks who own the copyrights to Sturgeon's work.


NEWS: There is a recollection by W. Sturgeon on the web, of her and Ted watching the first moon landing. W. writes to me, "Ted and I discussed this so often afterwards, it was very important to him."

"Some of Your Blood" was reprinted (July 2006). Currently (February 2006), Noel Sturgeon estimates that there will be a total of 13 volumes in the "Collected Stories..." series, although it's possible it will be 12 or 14. Vol. 11 was published July 2007. I count 28 stories yet to be published in this series, so my guess is 13 volumes.

Updates to the Theodore Sturgeon Page:
5-25-08: Two Sturgeon short stories are reprinted online
2-5-08: New book reviews added (look for NEW)
10-31-07: Story list updated
6-20-07: 1967 article "Ask the next question" by Sturgeon
3-23-07: MP3 of radio interview added, a few other updates below

This web site has some unique articles:

Other information:

  1. Pictures
  2. Biography
  3. Sturgeon's varied creations
  4. Miscellaneous Information
  5. Reviews of Sturgeon's work
  6. Other authors Sturgeon influenced
  7. Links of related interest
  8. Thanks and acknowledgements

Picture above provided by A. Sturgeon, taken by W. Sturgeon.

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Biography

Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo on February 26, 1918, at Staten Island, New York. In 1927 his parents divorced, and in 1929 his mother remarried William Sturgeon; around this time Edward changed his name to Theodore because he liked the nickname "Ted". His first story, "Heavy Insurance," was sold in 1938 for five dollars to McClure's Syndicate for publication in newspapers. The sale of "The God in the Garden" to Unknown was his first published science fiction story. Sturgeon died on May 8, 1985.

His novel More Than Human won the International Fantasy Award. "Slow Sculpture" won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. He was posthumously awarded the Life Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Awards.

This information was gleaned from "Theodore Sturgeon" by Lucy Menger (1981), and from the introduction to "The Ultimate Egoist: volume I: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon" (1994). Menger's book is an inexpensive biography/discussion of Sturgeon's work. I found it in an overstock/used book store for $1.

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Sturgeon's varied creations

(Sturgeon's work, including lists of his stories and non-written material.)

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Miscellaneous Information

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Reviews

This section only lists reviews posted on the web; for a complete listing of all reviews of Sturgeon's work, including print, see Wm F Seabrook's database of reviews of Sturgeon's work.

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Authors influenced by Sturgeon

(Sturgeon influenced a great many authors; some of them discuss Sturgeon on the web.)

Authors who influenced Sturgeon:

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Other links of possible interest

OTHER STURGEON PAGES:

OF MISCELLANEOUS INTEREST:

SF RESOURCE PAGES / WEB SITES

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Thanks:

Thanks to Bill Seabrook who has made extensive comments and suggestions, provided many of the links, and added a good fraction of the content. I've also noted other contributions where they occur, but I'll thank everybody again for providing material to this page: Rich Buhler, David Duncan, Dave Eversole, James Gunn, Bobby Josson, S. P. Somtow, Teddi Pomaika'i Stransky, Andros Sturgeon, Noel Sturgeon, W. Sturgeon, and the FANAC Fan History Web Pages. Edward Morris pointed me to Paul diFilippo's short stories. Thanks also to everybody else who writes in with suggestions, links & thoughts! Finally, thanks to everybody who has linked to this page.

I have a "quotes" page, with various interesting quotes from Sturgeon. If you have any suggestions, email them to me -- right now I'm not working on this very hard, but if people send me their favorite quotes I'll take care of it much sooner.


Current address:
Eric R. Weeks
Department of Physics
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322-2430