Case and the Dreamer
by Theodore Sturgeon
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Three solid Sturgeon stories, each around 50 pages long--from '62, '67, and '72. The best thing about Sturgeon IMO is not that he does his job as an inventive science fiction storyteller by providing the ideas and set pieces that define his chosen genre. Rather, it's his characters, a style closer to Spider Robinson than their dryer cousins, and finally the charm with which he delivers his stories. He takes his readers seriously and invites them in on the gag, on the secret.
Three stories that explore what a white male in the 1960s thought was interesting about love and lust.
Really, there are more provocative ideas inside your own head; you don't need Sturgeon to perform exploratory brain surgery. And if you want this kind of creative, poetic language, read Bradbury, who knew what he was doing, instead.
However, I do own several other mm pb collections of Sturgeon's work, so I'll try again.
Really, there are more provocative ideas inside your own head; you don't need Sturgeon to perform exploratory brain surgery. And if you want this kind of creative, poetic language, read Bradbury, who knew what he was doing, instead.
However, I do own several other mm pb collections of Sturgeon's work, so I'll try again.
Review in progress:
Contents:
Case and the Dreamer
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
When You Care, When You Love
(I'm tired, and it needs to be separated, with a disambiguation statement that points out that this was published in 1971, not 2010, and is three stories, not the large collection (which does include Case and the Dreamer) published in 2010 as Volume XIII of the collected short stories of Theodore Sturgeon.
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Contents:
Case and the Dreamer
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
When You Care, When You Love
(I'm tired, and it needs to be separated, with a disambiguation statement that points out that this was published in 1971, not 2010, and is three stories, not the large collection (which does include Case and the Dreamer) published in 2010 as Volume XIII of the collected short stories of Theodore Sturgeon.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?6235
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?308691
Back tomorrow to fix it...
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Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in New York City on February 26, 1918. He sold his first short story, Heavy Insurance, while serving in the United States Merchant Marine from 1935 to 1938. He won numerous awards including the 1954 International Fantasy Award for More than Human, the 1970 Nebula and Hugo Awards for Slow Sculpture, show more and the 1985 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000. He died of pneumonia in Eugene, Oregon on May 8, 1985. (Bowker Author Biography) Theodore Sturgeon was the author of numerous novels and over 200 stories. He died in 1985. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Il sognatore
- Original title
- Case and the Dreamer
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- 1974 (Collection) (Collection); 2010-09-28; 1972 (Case and the Dreamer) (Case and the Dreamer); 1967 (If All Men Were Brothers, Would you Let One Marry Your Sister?) (If All Men Were Brothers, Would you Let One Marry Your Sister?); 1962 (When You Care, When You love) (When You Care, When You love)
- Dedication
- To Herbert F Solow, without whom the story of Case would never have been written
- First words
- If, at the very moment Case died, someone had aimed a laser (a tight one, one of the highest intensity ever) at the spot from Earth, and if you could have ridden the beam-front for a thousand years (you couldn't, of course, a... (show all)nd anyway, nobody aimed, nobody knew), you might have seen his coffin.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And when she meets you, it's going to be the biggest thing that ever happened to you since the last time.
- Blurbers
- Willis, Connie; Chabon, Michael; King, Stephen; Clarke, Arthur C.; Vonnegut, Kurt; Heinlein, Robert A. (show all 8); Lethem, Jonathan; Williams, Paul
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- This is a 1974 collection of Sturgeon short stories and should not be combined with the 2010 "Case and the Dreamer: Volume XIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon".
Contents: Case And The Dreamer -- If All Men ... (show all)Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? -- When You Care, When You Love
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