Theodore Sturgeon

Novelist, Author

1918 – 1985

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Who was Theodore Sturgeon?

Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction and horror writer and critic. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with about 400 reviews and more than 200 stories.

Sturgeon's most famous work may be the science fiction More Than Human, an expansion of "Baby Is Three". More Than Human won the 1954 International Fantasy Award as the year's best novel and the Science Fiction Writers of America ranked "Baby is Three" number five among the "Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time" to 1964.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Sturgeon in 2000, its fifth class of two deceased and two living writers.

Famous Quotes:

  • Ninety percent of everything is crud.

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Born
Feb 26, 1918
Staten Island
Also known as
  • Ted Sturgeon
  • E. Waldo Hunter
  • Edward Hamilton Waldo
  • Frederick R. Ewing
  • E. Hunter Waldo
  • Billy Watson
  • Theodore Hamilton Sturgeon
  • Ted
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Atheism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Eugene
Died
May 8, 1985
Eugene

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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