Awarded Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella for Killdozer! (2020).
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Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon was an American author of primarily fantasy, science fiction, and horror, as well as a critic. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels, and two scripts for Star Trek: The Original Series.
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culture · American speculative fiction writer (1918–1985) · novelist · literary scholar · autobiographer · writer · screenwriter · literary critic · science fiction writer · journalist · author · also Theodore Sturgeon, E. Waldo Hunter, Ted Sturgeon, Edward Hamilton Waldo, Sturgeon
Born 26 February 1918 · Died 8 May 1985 · Q240253
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2020· 1 entry
2005· 1 entry
Awarded Seiun Awards for And Now the News... (2005).
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2000· 4 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2000).
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Its fifth class of two dead and two living writers
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I was delighted that it said in the middle of it that he was the inspiration for the Kurt Vonnegut character of Kilgore Trout." In 2000, Vonnegut wrote an admiring introduction to Volume VII of The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon.
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Vonnegut wrote an admiring introduction to Volume VII of The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
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1997· 1 entry
“Ninety percent of everything is shit.”
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1987· 1 entry
“Yeah, it said so in his obituary in The New York Times. I was delighted that it said in the middle of it that he was the inspiration for the Kurt Vonnegut character of Kilgore Trout.”
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1985· 7 entries
Died 1985-05-08.
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Of lung fibrosis, at Sacred Heart General Hospital in the neighboring city of Eugene
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“Nada es absolutamente de esa forma.”
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“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.”
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“Sturgeon's Law originally was "Nothing is always absolutely so." The other thing was known as "Sturgeon's Revelation.”
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“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”
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“Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.”
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Inkpot Award (1975).
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1971· 2 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Slow Sculpture (1971).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novelette for Slow Sculpture (1971).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Nebula Award (1970).
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1969· 1 entry
Began living with Wina Golden, a journalist, with whom he had a son
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1965· 1 entry
Kurt Vonnegut devised the name of his fictional science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout as an obscure reference to Sturgeon's name
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1959· 2 entries
Sturgeon moved to Truro, Massachusetts, where he met and became friendly with a then unknown Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
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Began to write book reviews (primarily of science fiction at the somewhat improbable behest of Frank Meyer, with whom he cultivated a largely apolitical friendship centered around their shared love of the genre despit
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1957· 2 entries
The two writers had become friends when Sturgeon moved to Truro, Massachusetts, in 1957.
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Sturgeon coined what is now known as Sturgeon's Law:
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1955· 1 entry
“The [Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff”
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded International Fantasy Award for Best Fiction for More Than Human (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
Wed Marion McGahan, with whom he had two sons and two daughters
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1938· 1 entry
To the McClure Syndicate, which bought much of his early work
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1935· 1 entry
Sturgeon pleaded to be allowed to attend college, but his step-father refused to support him, citing his frivolity
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1918· 1 entry
Born 1918-02-26.
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