Theodore Sturgeon, geboren als Edward Hamilton Waldo am 26. Februar 1918 auf Staten Island, New York, war eine einflussreiche Figur in der Welt der Science-Fiction und der dunklen Fantasy. Später nahm er den Nachnamen seines Stiefvaters an und verwendete den Vornamen Theodore für seine schriftstellerische Laufbahn.
Sturgeon gilt als einer der „Godfathers“ der modernen Science-Fiction und dunklen Fantasy, mit einer schriftstellerischen Karriere, die mehrere Jahrzehnte umspannte. Er ist der Autor zahlreicher preisgekrönter Kurzgeschichten und Romane, darunter die Klassiker „More Than Human“, „Venus Plus X“ und „To Marry Medusa“. Seine Arbeit hatte einen bedeutenden Einfluss auf das Genre und inspirierte zukünftige Autoren, wobei er eine nachhaltige Spur hinterließ.
Neben seiner schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit trug Sturgeon auch zur Television bei und schrieb für Shows wie die Original-Serie Star Trek aus den 1960er Jahren. Ihm wird zugeschrieben, das vulkanische Paarungsritual und den berühmten Ausdruck „Live long and prosper“ („Lebe lang und in Frieden“) erschaffen zu haben. Die Spuren von Sturgeons Einfluss sind auch in der Arbeit von Kurt Vonnegut zu finden, der durch Sturgeon dazu inspiriert wurde, die wiederkehrende fiktive Figur Kilgore Trout zu erschaffen.
Im Laufe seiner Karriere erhielt Sturgeon zahlreiche Auszeichnungen für seine Arbeit. Er ist Träger des Hugo Awards, des Nebula Awards und des International Fantasy Award. Im Jahr 2000 wurde er posthum mit einem World Fantasy Award für sein Lebenswerk geehrt, was ein Zeugnis für die anhaltende Wirkung seiner Beiträge zum Genre darstellt.
The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon Books
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The Ultimate Egoist
1995
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Microcosmic God
1995
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Killdozer!
1996
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Thunder and Roses
1997
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The Perfect Host
1998
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Baby is Three
1999
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A Saucer of Loneliness
2000
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Bright Segment
2002
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And Now the News
2003
10
The Man Who Lost the Sea
2005
11
The Nail and the Oracle
2007
12
Slow Sculpture
2009
13
Case and the Dreamer
2010
Einzelromane
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The Synthetic Man / The Dreaming Jewels
1950
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More Than Human
1953
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I, Libertine
1956
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The King and Four Queens
1956
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Venus Plus X
1960
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Some Of Your Blood
1961
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961
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The Rare Breed
1966
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The Stars Are the Styx
1979
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Godbody
1986
Kurzgeschichten/Novellen
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A Rose for Ecclesiastes
1963
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Blabbermouth and Abreaction
2009
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Beware the Fury
2010
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One Foot and the Grave
2011
Sammlungen
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Without Sorcery
1948
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E Pluribus Unicorn
1953
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Caviar
1955
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A Way Home
1955
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A Touch of Strange
1958
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The Cosmic Rape
1958
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Touch of Sturgeon
1958
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To Marry Medusa
1958
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Aliens 4
1959
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Beyond
1960
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Not Without Sorcery
1961
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Sturgeon in Orbit
1964
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The Joyous Invasions
1965
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Starshine
1966
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Sturgeon is Alive and Well
1971
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The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon
1972
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To Here and the Easel
1973
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Case and the Dreamer and Other Stories
1974
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Maturity
1979
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The Golden Helix
1979
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New Soviet Science Fiction
1979
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Visions and Venturers
1979
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Alien Cargo
1984
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Selected Stories
2000
Star Trek Fotonovel Books
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The City on the Edge of Forever
1977
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Amok Time
1967
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The Trouble with Tribbles
1977
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The City on the Edge of Forever (By: Harlan Ellison)
1977
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All Our Yesterdays
1978
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The Trouble with Tribbles (By: David Gerrold)
1977
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All Our Yesterdays (By: Jean Lissette Aroeste)
1978
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A Taste of Armageddon
1978
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A Taste of Armageddon (By: Robert Hamner, Gene L. Coon)
1978
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Metamorphosis
1978
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Metamorphosis (By: Gene L. Coon)
1978
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The Galileo 7
1978
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The Galileo 7 (By: Oliver Crawford, S. Bar-David)
1978
14
A Piece of the Action
1978
15
A Piece of the Action (By: Gene L. Coon, David P. Harmon)
1978
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Day of the Dove
1978
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Day of the Dove (By: Jerome Bixby)
1978
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (By: Alan Dean Foster, Harold Livingston, Richard J. Anobile)
1980
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1980
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Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (By: Richard J. Anobile)
1982
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Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
1982
Star Trek: TOS (Numbered) Books
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The Prometheus Design
1982
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The Prometheus Design (By: Sondra Marshak, Myrna Culbreath)
1982
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The Abode of Life
1982
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The Abode of Life (By: Lee Correy)
1982
5
Black Fire (By: Sonni Cooper)
1983
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Black Fire
1983
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Triangle (By: Sondra Marshak, Myrna Culbreath)
1983
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Triangle
1983
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Web of the Romulans (By: Leonard Nimoy, M.S. Murdock)
1983
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Web of the Romulans
1983
11
The Wounded Sky
1983
12
The Wounded Sky (By: Diane Duane)
1983
13
Corona (By: Greg Bear)
1984
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Corona
1984
15
The Tears of the Singers
1984
16
The Tears of the Singers ( By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
1984
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The Vulcan Academy Murders (By: Jean Lorrah)
1984
18
The Vulcan Academy Murders
1984
19
Uhura's Song (By: Janet Kagan)
1985
20
Uhura's Song
1985
21
Shadow Lord (By: Laurence Yep)
1985
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Shadow Lord
1985
23
Ishmael
1985
24
Ishmael ( By: Barbara Hambly)
1985
25
Killing Time
1985
26
Killing Time (By: Della Van Hise)
1985
27
Dwellers in the Crucible (By: Margaret Wander Bonanno)
1985
28
Pawns and Symbols
1985
29
Pawns and Symbols (By: Majliss Larson)
1985
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Chain of Attack
1987
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Chain of Attack ( By: Gene DeWeese)
1987
32
Bloodthirst
1987
33
Bloodthirst (By: J.M. Dillard)
1987
34
The IDIC Epidemic
1988
35
The Three-Minute Universe
1988
36
The IDIC Epidemic (By: Jean Lorrah)
1988
37
Vulcan's Glory
1989
38
The Three-Minute Universe (By: Barbara Paul)
1988
39
The Final Nexus (By: Gene DeWeese)
1988
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Home Is the Hunter
1990
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The Lost Years (By: J.M. Dillard)
1989
42
Ghost-Walker
1991
43
Vulcan's Glory (By: D.C. Fontana)
1989
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A Flag Full of Stars
1991
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Double, Double (By: Michael Jan Friedman)
1989
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Renegade
1991
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Home Is the Hunter (By: Dana Kramer-Rolls)
1990
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Prime Directive
1991
49
Ghost-Walker ( By: Barbara Hambly)
1991
50
The Rift
1991
51
Ice Trap
1992
52
A Flag Full of Stars (By: Brad Ferguson, Dave Stern)
1991
53
Sanctuary
1992
54
Renegade (By: Gene DeWeese)
1991
55
Death Count
1992
56
The Rift (By: Peter David)
1991
57
Faces of Fire (By: Michael Jan Friedman)
1992
58
Shell Game
1993
59
Ice Trap (By: L.A. Graf)
1992
60
The Starship Trap
1993
61
From the Depths
1993
62
Sanctuary (By: John Vornholt)
1992
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Death Count (By: L.A. Graf)
1992
64
The Great Starship Race
1993
65
Shell Game (By: Melissa Crandall)
1993
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The Patrian Transgression
1994
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Crossroad
1994
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The Starship Trap ( By: Mel Gilden)
1993
69
From the Depths ( By: Victor Milán)
1993
70
Recovery
1995
71
The Great Starship Race (By: Diane Carey)
1993
72
The Fearful Summons
1995
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First Frontier
1995
74
Firestorm (By: L.A. Graf)
1994
75
The Captain's Daughter
1995
76
The Patrian Transgression ( By: Simon Hawke)
1994
77
Twilight's End
1996
78
Traitor Winds (By: L.A. Graf)
1994
79
The Rings of Tautee
1996
80
Crossroad ( By: Barbara Hambly)
1994
81
The Better Man (By: Howard Weinstein)
1994
82
The Joy Machine
1996
83
Mudd in Your Eye
1997
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Recovery (By: J.M. Dillard)
1995
85
Mind Meld
1997
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The Fearful Summons (By: Denny Martin Flinn)
1995
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Assignment: Eternity
1998
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First Frontier (By: Diane Carey, James I. Kirkland)
1995
89
The Captain's Daughter ( By: Peter David)
1995
90
Vulcan's Heart
1999
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Twilight's End (By: Jerry Oltion)
1996
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Across the Universe
1999
93
In the Name of Honor
2002
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The Rings of Tautee ( By: Dean Wesley Smith)
1996
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The Joy Machine (With: James Edwin Gunn)
1996
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Ex Machina
2004
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Mudd in Your Eye (By: Jerry Oltion)
1997
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The Disinherited
2007
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Excelsior: Forged in Fire
2007
100
Mind Meld (By: John Vornholt)
1997
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The Children of Kings
2010
102
Assignment: Eternity (By: Greg Cox)
1998
103
Vulcan's Heart (By: Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz)
1999
104
Cast No Shadow
2011
105
Allegiance in Exile
2013
106
Across the Universe ( By: Pamela Sargent)
1999
107
In the Name of Honor (By: Dayton Ward)
2002
108
Ex Machina (By: Christopher Bennett)
2004
109
Federation ( By: Judith Reeves-Stevens)
2006
110
The Disinherited (By: Peter David, Robert Greenberger, Michael Jan Friedman)
2007
111
Excelsior: Forged in Fire (By: Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin)
2007
112
The Children of Kings (By: Dave Stern)
2010
113
Cast No Shadow (By: James Swallow, Dayton Ward)
2011
114
Allegiance in Exile (By: David R. George III)
2013
The Dark Descent Books
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Volume I: The Color of Evil (By: Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, David G. Hartwell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, E. Nesbit, Charles L. Grant, H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, M.R. James, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman, Russell Kirk, John Collier, Robert Aickman, Lucy Clifford, Michael Shea)
1987
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Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield (With: Stephen King, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, David G. Hartwell, Tanith Lee, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, Joanna Russ, Richard Matheson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D.H. Lawrence, Dennis Etchison, Thomas M. Disch, Clive Barker, Robert Aickman, Robert Hichens, Edgar Allen Poe)
1990
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Volume III: A Fabulous, Formless Darkness (By: Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, David G. Hartwell, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton, Thomas M. Disch, Robert Aickman)
1991
Schmidt Analog Anthologies (with Hal Clement, with Stanley Schmidt, with Katherine MacLean)
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Analog's Golden Anniversary Anthology
1980
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Analog's Lighter Side
1982
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Analog's Children Of The Future
1982
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Analog
1983
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War and Peace
1983
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Aliens from Analog
1983
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Analog Writers Choice
1984
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From Mind to Mind
1984
Man-Kzin Wars Books (with Larry Niven, with Robert A. Heinlein, with S.M. Stirling, with Spider Robinson, with Jerry Pournelle, with Dean Ing, with Robert Sheckley, with Gregory Benford, with Anthony Boucher, with William Goldman, with Terry Carr, with Paul Chafe, with Jim Baen, with Mark O. Martin, with Matthew Harrington, with Hal Colebatch, with Jessica Q. Fox)
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The Man-Kzin Wars
1988
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Man-Kzin Wars II
1989
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Man-Kzin Wars III
1990
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Man-Kzin Wars IV
1991
5
The Children's Hour
1991
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Man-Kzin Wars V
1992
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Man-Kzin Wars VI
1994
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Man-Kzin Wars VII
1995
9
A Darker Geometry
1996
10
The Best of All Possible Wars
1998
11
Man-Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names
1998
12
Man-Kzin Wars IX
2001
13
The House of the Kzinti
2002
14
Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War
2003
15
Man-Kzin Wars XI
2005
16
Destiny's Forge
2006
17
Man-Kzin Wars XII
2009
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Man-Kzin Wars XIII
2012
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Man-Kzin Wars XIV
2013
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Treasure Planet
2014
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Man-Kzin Wars XV
2019
Theodore Sturgeon Anthologies
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The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction
1943
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Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories
1949
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Fantastic, Fall 1952
1952
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6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction
1954
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The Ghoul Keepers
1961
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50 Short Science Fiction Tales
1963
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Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963
1963
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Connoisseur's Science Fiction
1964
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Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers
1965
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The Microcosmic God
1965
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Dangerous Visions 3
1967
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Amazing Stories, Vol. 41, No. 4
1967
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Demon Lovers and Strange Seductions
1971
14
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Nineteenth Series
1971
15
Young Demons
1972
16
Nebula Award 6
1972
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Nebula Awards 7
1972
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A
1973
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The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding
1973
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...
1974
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Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium
1975
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Antigrav
1975
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Chrysalis 1
1977
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Alpha 8
1977
25
Rod Serling's Other Worlds
1978
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Chrysalis Volume 2
1978
27
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction
1980
28
Chrysalis 3
1978
29
The Best of Astounding
1979
30
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century
1980
31
The Best of All Possible Worlds
1980
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Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor