Theodore Sturgeon

26 February 1918 – 8 May 1985

100 works on record

Biography

Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York. He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy." His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon. As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of rheumatic fever. From 1935 to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine. He sold his first story in 1938, and his first science fiction story, "Ether Breather" was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939. A few of his early pulp stories were published under the pseudonym "E. Waldo Hunter." He married his first wife, Dorothe Fillingame, in 1940. That year, they moved to the West Indies, where Sturgeon managed a hotel for about a year. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and in 1944 he returned to the U.S. and worked as an advertising copywriter. He divorced in 1945, and married singer Mary Mair in 1949 until an annulment in 1951. In 1950, he published his first novel, The Dreaming Jewels. In 1951, he married Marion McGahan and they had a son in 1952, a daughters in 1954, a daughter in 1956, and a son in 1960. In 1963, he ghost-wrote the Ellery Queen mystery novel The Player on the Other Side, which received critical praise. He wrote two screenplays for the television show Star Trek in 1966 and 1967, and one screenplay for the show Land of the Lost in 1975, and two of his stories were adapted for The New Twilight Zone. At the height of his popularity in the 1950s he was the most anthologized author alive. His last long-term committed relationship was with writer and educator Jayne Engelhart Tannehill, with whom he remained until the time of his death. He died in May of 1985 of lung fibrosis, in Eugene, Oregon.

Works

The nail and the oracle

2006

Regreso

2005

The man who lost the sea

2005

And now the news--

2003

Killdozer - le viol cosmique

2003

Bright Segment: Vol. VIII

2002

The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]

2002

Selected stories

2000

A saucer of loneliness

2000

Cuerpodivino

2000

Thunder and roses

1999

Baby is three

1999

Les Talents de Xanadu

1999

La fuente del unicornio

1999

To marry Medusa / Theodore Sturgeon

1999

Ultimate Egoist: Volume I

1998

The perfect host

1998

Killdozer!

1996

Microcosmic God

1995

Los Cristales Sonadores

1995

The complete stories of Theodore Sturgeon

1994

Argyll

1993

The Dreaming Jewels, the Cosmic Rape, Venus Plus X

1991

A Touch of Sturgeon

1987

Alien cargo

1984

Beyond

1980

Maturity

1979

More Than Human

1979

The Golden Helix

1979

The stars are the Styx

1979

New Voices II

1979

Star Trek - Fotonovel - Amok Time

1978

Some of Your Blood

1977

The cosmic rape and "To marry Medusa"

1977

Not Without Sorcery

1975

Case and the Dreamer, and other stories

1974

Sturgeon's West

1973

To here and theeasel

1973

The worlds of Theodore Sturgeon

1972

Starshine

1968

Venus plus x

1960

Aliens 4 (Avon SF, T-304)

1959

The Cosmic Rape

1958

The king and four queens

1956

Caviar

1955

Without sorcery; thirteen tales

1948

The joyous invasions

Sturgeon in orbit

The Future Makers

Visions and venturers

Slow sculpture

Bakers Dozen. 13 Short Horror Novels

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great science fiction stories--volume 11, 1949

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two A

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 (1947)

Star Short Novels (Little Men / For I Am a Jealous People! / To Here and the Easel)

Isaac Asimov presents the golden age of science fiction. Sixth Series

The Future in Question

The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941)

The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1

Isaac Asimov presents the great science fiction stories -- Volume 1, 1939

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)

Giants

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946)

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 6

3 to the Highest Power

Laughing Space

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944)

The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940)

The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov / The [Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff by Theodore Sturgeon

Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 15 (1953)

TV 2000

Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!

The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective

The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories]

Science Fiction of the forties

The Hugo Winners, Volume Three

The Science Fiction Roll of Honor

One and Wonder

The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Third Series

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Galaxy

New Soviet science fiction

Theodore Sturgeon SF Gateway Omnibus

Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction [9 stories]

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (1959)

The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Fifth Series

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 17 (1955)

The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Second Series

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 8

Fantastic Stories Presents Science Fiction Super Pack #1

Science Fiction A to Z

New voices II

Horror Gems, Volume Fourteen, Manly Banister and Others (Volume 14)

Faszination der Science Fiction

Méduse

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