The Synthetic Man
Cover code #N3344; stated 6th printing (1974). First published in Fantastic Adventures, February 1950 as "The Dreaming Jewels." The Pyramid paperback had seven printings between 1957 and 1978. The author's first novel.
Cover code #N3344; stated 6th printing (1974). First published in Fantastic Adventures, February 1950 as "The Dreaming Jewels." The Pyramid paperback had seven printings between 1957 and 1978. The author's first novel.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780515033441 (0515033448)
Publish date: April 1974
Publisher: Pyramid Books
Pages no: 174
Edition language: English
Theodore Sturgeon only wrote SF because no other genre could possibly have contained the immensity of his ideas. But he wrote unconsciously of the genre and his work tends to be devoid of the usual trappings found in many other SF writers work. That this was originally published in 1951 only serves ...
Strange little foundling Horty is abused by his adoptive parents, and runs away. He's 'adopted' by a group of midgets and joins a travelling carnival... but the carny hides some deeper secrets and more subtle cruelties than even his previous life.. what is the explanation for Horty's mysterious abil...
I hadn't thought about this book for ages, until the other day when I read Jessica Treat's fine short story Ants. They both start in pretty much the same way. Coincidence?
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