Short fiction was Sturgeon's forte; you probably wouldn't go wrong in picking up the first collection you can find. Or you could sample a couple of them via this link.
The novella I read yesterday is called "The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff", included in a wonderful old (1959) anthology edited by Anthony Boucher, A Treasury of Great Science Fiction.
It's ostensibly "about" an alien experiment on a group of people living in a rooming house, but it's really about emotionally damaged people healing themselves. It's quite a beautiful piece of work.
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Date: 2007-09-08 01:11 am (UTC)I was only introduced to his writing in University when I took an elective course in English Lit on Sci-Fi at UofT. Good course!
We read "More than Human", naturally.
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Date: 2007-09-08 05:10 pm (UTC)The novella I read yesterday is called "The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff", included in a wonderful old (1959) anthology edited by Anthony Boucher, A Treasury of Great Science Fiction.
It's ostensibly "about" an alien experiment on a group of people living in a rooming house, but it's really about emotionally damaged people healing themselves. It's quite a beautiful piece of work.
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Date: 2007-09-08 02:37 am (UTC)