Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon was one of the most gifted and influential science fiction and fantasy writers of the twentieth century, celebrated for the emotional depth, lyrical prose, and humanist vision that distinguished his work from the more technically focused science fiction of his contemporaries. His novel The Dreaming Jewels, also published as The Synthetic Man, is a haunting, imaginative story about a young boy who discovers that mysterious crystalline beings are secretly observing and influencing human life, and that he himself may be more connected to these alien entities than he could have imagined. Sturgeon's writing is characterised by its emotional intelligence, its compassion for outsiders and misfits, and its insistence that the most important questions in science fiction are not about technology but about what it means to be human. He won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and his short fiction, including classics such as More Than Human and Baby Is Three, is regarded as some of the finest ever produced in the genre. Sturgeon's famous dictum that ninety percent of everything is bad, known as Sturgeon's Law, reflects his high standards for the genre he loved. The Dreaming Jewels is available as an audiobook, offering listeners a beautiful, strange, and deeply humane science fiction classic from one of the genre's greatest writers.