Case and the Dreamer

✍ Scribed by Sturgeon, Theodore

• Book ID: 107493232
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 799 KB
• Series: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon 13
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781583947579

✦ Synopsis

James Blish called him the ''finest conscious artist science fiction ever produced.'' Kurt Vonnegut based the famous character Kilgore Trout on him. And such luminaries as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Octavia Butler have hailed him as a mentor. Theodore Sturgeon was both a popular favorite and a writer's writer, carving out a singular place in the literary landscape based on his masterful wordplay, conceptual daring, and narrative drive. Sturgeon's sardonic sensibility and his skill at interweaving important social issues such as sex--including gay themes--and war into his stories are evident in all of his work, regardless of genre.

Case and the Dreamer displays Sturgeon's gifts at their peak. The book brings together his last stories, written between 1972 and 1983. They include ''The Country of Afterward,'' a sexually explicit story Sturgeon had been unable to write earlier in his career, and the title story, about an encounter with a transpatial being that is...