![]() This tale is as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger's soul. As they struggle to discover whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with suspense, pathos, and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction. On the surface at least, More Than Human embodies some common themes of science fiction: the misfit mutants, superior to and alienated from normal human society the next stage of human. ![]() Together, they may represent the next step in evolution-or the final chapter in the history of the human race. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience. ![]() There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts Janie, who moves things without touching them and the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. Theodore Sturgeons More Than Human, which won the International Fantasy Award in 1954 and was selected as one of David Pringles 100 Best SF novels, must have. Its definitely Sturgeons most well-known work. ![]() Individually, they are a seemingly simpleminded young man living in the woods who can read the thoughts of others, a. An award-winning novel about belonging by one of the greatest writers of science fiction and fantasy who ever lived (Stephen King). ![]() In this genre-bending novel, among the first to have launched science fiction into literature, a group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover that their combined powers render them superhuman. More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon - Google Books. ![]()
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