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Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume 5: The Perfect Host, The

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Author: Sturgeon, Theodore; Williams, Paul; McCaffery, Larry
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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Publication Year: 2000-11-22
ISBN#: 978-1-55643-360-3
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Pages: 380
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Language: English

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Genre: Fiction / Science Fiction / General
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Series: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (5)
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The fifth of ten volumes that will reprint all Sturgeon's short fiction contains fifteen classics and two previously unpublished stories, including "Quietly." The Perfect Host provides enough of a representative sampling of Sturgeon's "greatest hits" to give the uninitiated a good sense of what all the fuss was about way back when. At the same time, it offers a generous selection of alternate takes and rarities, notably several of Sturgeon's best forays into other forms of genre writing, plus previously unreleased cuts and liner notes.

Contents:
1. Die, Maestro, Die!
2. Farewell to Eden
3. Messenger
4. Minority Report
5. One Foot and the Grave
6. Prodigy
7. Quietly
8. Scars
9. The Dark Goddess . . . More to a Marriage . . .
10. The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast
11. The Love of Heaven
12. The Martian and the Moron
13. The Music
14. The Perfect Host
15. Till Death Do Us Join
16. Unite and Conquer
17. What Dead Men Tell