![]() There are parts of it that are frustrating. I found this an enjoyable, if somewhat difficult book to get through. ![]() Throughout the book, they progress towards a mature consciousness, called homo gestalt, which is presented as the next stage in human evolution. More Than Human is about how six extraordinary people with strange powers come together and “blesh” (a portmanteau of “blend” and “mesh”) their abilities to act as a single, gestalt organism. Our school library has a wide collection of SF Masterworks books, made up of select science-fiction books from as far back as H.G. The copy that we have in the Library at Dulwich International High School Suzhou is part of the SF Masterworks series pictured above. The book is frequently included in lists of the 100 best Science Fiction Novels of all time. More Than Human was originally published in 1953. More Than Human is Theodore Sturgeon’s most famous novel and has the rare distinction of being one of a very few science fiction novels published in the 1950s to gain serious academic recognition as literature. As fans of Kurt Vonnegut will probably already know, Vonnegut’s most famous character, Kilgore Trout, is based on Theodore Sturgeon, who was a good friend of Vonnegut’s. ![]() He wrote several novels, hundreds of short stories as well as scripts for television and film (including a couple of episodes of the original series of Star Trek). Theodore Sturgeon(1918 – 1975) is one of the giants of the science fiction golden age. ![]()
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