Starshine

by Theodore Sturgeon

Book Overview

First Jove/HBJ edition published November 1977. Collection of stories, including: Derm Fool (1940); The Haunt (1941); Artnan Process (1941); The World Well Lost (1953); The Pod and the Barrier (1957);... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515044598
• ISBN13: 9780515044591
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great light reading

I remember Harlan Ellison writing about his dead friends in Angry Candy and being particularly angry with an obituary writer that didn't know Theodore Sturgeon. After reading this book, I can see why. Sturgeon was one of those strange brilliant writers that managed to push the genre past the pure science/theoretical/rocket ship ghetto. His characters are slightly borsht belt (even lower east side) but his grasp of the human experience is excellent. While many of these stories are the genre tropes - the weak man trying to kill his overbearing aunt, the space con artists against the slightly befuddled aliens, the haunted house - they manage to feel fresh under the expert hand of Sturgeon. Granted, once the book is over you forget it, but it's wonderful light reading and deserves classic status much more than the current batch of "classics" from that era (no I didn't like Saul Bellow. I found Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) a plodding mess. And don't even get me started on Arthur Miller)

A pretty good book

This is a book with a collection of short stories that deal with issues of love, exploration and discovery, hate, appearances and the unknown plus many other areas and ideas... It is an interesting book that holds the reader as you often reflect on what is said.. I found it interesting and entertaining.