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More Than Human

Theodore Sturgeon

Paperback | Pages: 186 pages

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Title	:	More Than Human
Author	:	Theodore Sturgeon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage Books Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 186 pages
Published	:	January 1999 by Vintage (first published October 1953)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience. Separately, they are talented freaks. Together, they compose a single organism that may represent the next step in evolution, and the final chapter in the history of the human race. In this genre-bending novel - among the first to have launched scifi into the arena of literature - one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a story as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger's soul. For as the protagonists of More Than Human struggle to find who they are and whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it. Theodore Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with suspense, pathos, and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction.

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Original Title:	More Than Human
ISBN:	0375703713 (ISBN13: 9780375703713)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	International Fantasy Award for Fiction (1954), Retro Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2004)

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If you have ever been lonely and longed for completion, you will be drawn to this book. But if you are one of those rare souls who sense that completion demands more than a wife or a husband, who yearn to find a small group of friends like yourself--but different--who can believe and will the same thing and yet still manage to preserve their distinctive humanity, then this book is the thing for you.More Than Human is about six peopleeach with a distinct and extraordinary powerwho wander lost and

Were not a group of freaks. Were Homo Gestalt, you understand? Were a single entity, a new kind of human being. We werent invented. We evolved. Were the next step up. Were alone; there are no more like us. We dont live in the kind of world you do, with systems of morals and codes of ethics to guide us. Were living on a desert island with a herd of goats!More Than Human is all about Homo Gestalt a group of humans with different psi abilities living together as one unit. It is not about a hive

Incredible book in a number of ways. From the first paragraph you will notice that the language sets this apart from most writing in the genre. In addition, the premise and development of the story are so imaginative--this book is often categorized as science fiction, but that label is both too limiting and not quite on the mark. If it is science fiction, it is much more Ray Bradbury than Isaac Asimov--the imaginative explorations are all on the human side of the equation, rather than the

I think the only meaningful ratings on GR are *, **, and *****. Those are pretty clear: I disliked it, it was okay, and it was amazing. *** and **** exist in that intermediate stage between meh (**) and wow (*****). I liked it and I really liked it. WTF? How exactly do I differentiate between liking something and really liking it? A lot of how we respond to stories is so personal to what we enjoy and what weve read before. One thing that I usually like in books is when it throws up an idea that

3.5 stars. I don't care much for the development of psychic powers in older SF but there were hints of something in this story that kept me interested.

Were I to take an in-depth Sci-Fi course I would definitely want to explore the deeper meanings of this book, lots of layered psychological here. I'm already reserving it for a re-read. It is disturbing and fascinating, the story of an...evolved group of creatures, the only way I can describe it. Just try it, it's short but packed with wonderment.

The first Gestalt character I had ever read was in Daniel O'Malley's The Rook. I was completely blown away by this odd and frightful concept, the sheer alienness in human form. O'Malley's Gestalt was born quadruplets (three male, one female), all mentally one organism. It (them?) was an amazing fighter as it could coordinate four separate bodies as easily you coordinate four separate limbs. Part of the joy of reading Classics is learning where your favorite contemporary authors got their ideas.