Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeonwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 February 1918
CountryUnited States of America
fields fiction science-fiction
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
writing important fiction
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
fiction majority commerce
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.
fiction trash existence
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.
fiction science-fiction ninety
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
writing fiction-stories problem
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
science fiction stories
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
fiction limits fields
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
against editor field letter rejected sent warning wrote
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
believe feeling looking people providing virtually
More and more, I've come to the feeling that I'm looking for people who believe in something, virtually anything, providing they believe in it.
against create extended reader reality recognize talking test though
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
consist scene
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
far good great nobody people putting saying talked
I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.
shoes lovers old-shoes
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.