Summary
E Pluribus Unicorn is a collection of fantasy and science fiction stories by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, published in 1953 by Abelard.
Contents edit
- "Essay on Sturgeon" by Groff Conklin
- "The Silken-Swift"
- "The Professor's Teddy-Bear"
- "Bianca's Hands"
- "Saucer of Loneliness"
- "The World Well Lost"
- "It Wasn't Syzygy"
- "The Music"
- "Scars"
- "Fluffy"
- "The Sex Opposite"
- "Die, Maestro, Die!"
- "Cellmate"
- "A Way of Thinking"
Reception edit
The New York Times reviewer Basil Davenport noted that while "Sturgeon's poetic sensitivity sometimes leads him to overwriting, … at his best it gives his work an emotional depth which is all too rare in this field."[1] Boucher and McComas gave the collection a lukewarm review, describing it as "a hodgepodge" mixing "Grade A Sturgeon stories" with "a good many one can see no particular reason for collecting"; still, they concluded that Unicorn was "a book belonging in any fantasy library."[2] P. Schuyler Miller praised the collection as "one of the finest short story collections by any writer in the field."[3]
References edit
- ^ "In the Spaceman's Realm," The New York Times Book Review, November 29, 1953, p.53
- ^ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, February 1954, p.94.
- ^ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, August 1954, pp.152-53
External links edit
- E Pluribus Unicorn title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database