I also had this one, back when I was in college - 25 years ago or more. I knew some of Sturgeon's work but have since read much more. One of my favorites.
It was this collection, and the site of publication of most of the contents, that partly inspired Kurt Vonnegut's extensive portrait of Kilgore Trout in BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS...most of these stories were first in the not bad but comparatively minor PLAYBOY imitators of the late '60s...
Sturgeon Is Alive and Well... Theodore Sturgeon (G.P. Putnam’s, 1971, hc) Foreword · fw To Here and the Easel · na Star Short Novels, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1954 Slow Sculpture · nv Galaxy Feb 1970 It’s You! · ss Adam Jan 1970 Take Care of Joey · ss Knight Jan 1971 Crate · ss Knight Oct 1970 The Girl Who Knew What They Meant · ss Knight Feb 1970 Jorry’s Gap · ss Adam Oct 1969 It Was Nothing—Really! · ss Knight Nov 1969 Brownshoes · ss Adam May 1969; ; as “The Man Who Learned Loving”, F&SF Oct 1969 Uncle Fremmis · ss Adam Dec 1970 The Patterns of Dorne · ss Knight May 1970 Suicide · ss Adam Bedside Reader #43 1970
More stuff I should be writing about, rather than leaving it to the even more unqualified.
Nope. Several hundred ca. 1968 dollars rather than a thousand-plus, I gather. See Ellison's introduction, in PARTNERS IN WONDER, to the story "The Song the Zombie Sang," wherein Ellison strings collaborator Robert Silverberg along about how there'd be no second-serial sale of the story to ADAM or one of the others, puzzling Silverberg, then that there'd be no sale to GALAXY of first serial rights, mildly flummoxing Silverberg...who asks why not, and Ellison crows, Because I've sold it to COSMOPOLITAN for some similar 1K+.
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I remember reading this book! Sturgeon should be better known. Few writers could write short stories like he did.
I also had this one, back when I was in college - 25 years ago or more. I knew some of Sturgeon's work but have since read much more. One of my favorites.
The first Sturgeon collection I read, since my father had a copy.
It was this collection, and the site of publication of most of the contents, that partly inspired Kurt Vonnegut's extensive portrait of Kilgore Trout in BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS...most of these stories were first in the not bad but comparatively minor PLAYBOY imitators of the late '60s...
Sturgeon Is Alive and Well... Theodore Sturgeon (G.P. Putnam’s, 1971, hc)
Foreword · fw
To Here and the Easel · na Star Short Novels, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1954
Slow Sculpture · nv Galaxy Feb 1970
It’s You! · ss Adam Jan 1970
Take Care of Joey · ss Knight Jan 1971
Crate · ss Knight Oct 1970
The Girl Who Knew What They Meant · ss Knight Feb 1970
Jorry’s Gap · ss Adam Oct 1969
It Was Nothing—Really! · ss Knight Nov 1969
Brownshoes · ss Adam May 1969; ; as “The Man Who Learned Loving”, F&SF Oct 1969
Uncle Fremmis · ss Adam Dec 1970
The Patterns of Dorne · ss Knight May 1970
Suicide · ss Adam Bedside Reader #43 1970
More stuff I should be writing about, rather than leaving it to the even more unqualified.
I hope they paid on an almost-Playboy level.
Nope. Several hundred ca. 1968 dollars rather than a thousand-plus, I gather. See Ellison's introduction, in PARTNERS IN WONDER, to the story "The Song the Zombie Sang," wherein Ellison strings collaborator Robert Silverberg along about how there'd be no second-serial sale of the story to ADAM or one of the others, puzzling Silverberg, then that there'd be no sale to GALAXY of first serial rights, mildly flummoxing Silverberg...who asks why not, and Ellison crows, Because I've sold it to COSMOPOLITAN for some similar 1K+.
Now I'll have to dig out my copy of that book.
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