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Theodore Sturgeon is one of America's most versatile science fictioneers. He is a writer who, while brilliantly presenting a science fiction problem explores at the same time the relationships between people—the fascinating vagaries of human fears and emotions.
This fine collection of stories is a magnificent example of Mr. Sturgeon's ingenuity and skill. The Pod and the Barrier poses the purely science fiction puzzle of a rocket ship breaking through a planet's wall of force, but is essentially a gripping study of the actions and reactions of the ship's crew. Algis Budrys, writing in Science Fiction Forum, has called The Other Celia "...the quintessence of Sturgeon to date."
With A Touch of Strange, Theodore Sturgeon has proved that the science fiction story can no longer be considered a horse opera with a Martian setting. These imagi- native and fanciful excursions into time and space are all deeply rooted in reality.
—from the dust jacket
A Touch of Strange is one of Theodore Sturgeon's basic and original collections of unforgettable novelettes and short stories. Here are nine masterpieces of the imagination from the period of Sturgeon's finest creativity. Included here are "Affair with a Green Monkey", "The Other Celia", "The Touch of Your Hand", and more. The name of Theodore Sturgeon is a magic word in the field of science fiction and fantasy—in A Touch of Strange you will find out for yourself ample reasons for this.
Stories:
- The Pod in the Barrier
- A Crime for Llewellyn
- The Touch of Your Hand
- Affair with a Green Monkey
- Mr. Costello, Hero
- The Girl Had Guts
- The Other Celia
- It Opens the Sky
- A Touch of Strange
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