The Perfect Host

by STURGEON, THEODOREWILLIAMS, PAUL

• ISBN13: 9781556433603
• ISBN10: 1556433603
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-11-22
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

The fifth of ten volumes that will reprint all Sturgeon's short fiction contains fifteen classics and two previously unpublished stories, including "Quietly."The Perfect Hostprovides enough of a representative sampling of Sturgeon's "greatest hits" to give the uninitiated a good sense of what all the fuss was about way back when. At the same time, it offers a generous selection of alternate takes and rarities, notably several of Sturgeon's best forays into other forms of genre writing, plus previously unreleased cuts and liner notes.

Author Biography

Theodore Sturgeon was born on February 26, 1918 in Staten Island, New York. He died in Eugene, Oregon, on May 8, 1985. A resident of New York City, upstate New York, and Los Angeles, he is the author of more than thirty novels and short story collections.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Larry McCaffery
Quietly	1	(17)
The Music	18	(2)
Unite and Conquer	20	(43)
The Love of Heaven	63	(15)
Till Death Do Us Join	78	(14)
The Perfect Host	92	(49)
The Martian and the Moron	141	(26)
Die, Maestro, Die!	167	(34)
The Dark Goddess	201	(14)
Scars	215	(8)
Messenger	223	(12)
Minority Report	235	(22)
Prodigy	257	(12)
Farewell to Eden	269	(14)
One Foot and the Grave	283	(41)
What Dead Men Tell	324	(29)
The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast	353	(9)
Story Notes	362
Paul Williams