My top ten single-author short sf collections
Back in 2010, John DeNardo of SF Signal was kind enough to invite me to participate in one of their...
Posts Tagged ‘sturgeon’
Sturgeon on monogamy
Theodore Sturgeon's 1951 story “Rule of Three” (spoilers!) features two tripartite energy beings who embed themselves in six humans, and...
“Shore Leave” and the back rub
I've been occasionally rewatching Star Trek: TOS episodes. Tonight, foiled by a stomachache from my original plan of attending various...
R.I.P., William Tenn/Phil Klass
I've been reading William Tenn's stories since I was a kid; his stories were scattered through a bunch of the...
What is this thing called Strange Horizons?
After the past couple entries, I suspect some of you are thinking "Well, that's all well and good, but I've...
Imminent death of short sf predicted, film at 11
Warren Ellis points out that the print prozines' circulation is declining. Sadly, this has been true for a long time....
Fiction therapy
Last night I went grocery shopping, then stopped by my local bookstore. (Books Inc, in downtown Mountain View.) There were...
Williams on Sturgeon
Arthur H. () points to a biographical article on Theodore Sturgeon by Paul Williams (on the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust...
Art as social commentary
In a 1977 interview, Theodore Sturgeon recounted something that happened during the time of the McCarthy hearings. Sturgeon owed Horace...
Queer sf
I recently read Gordon van Gelder's latest editorial in F&SF. It says various interesting things; for example, he notes that...
Cleanup, etc.
Spent much of yesterday afternoon and evening embarking on phase 1 of the cleanup project: go through my boxes of...
Caviar
Latest Sturgeon lines, this time from "One Foot and the Grave." First, some badinage, or perhaps it's airy persiflage: [She...