What Are the Best Theodore Sturgeon Short Stories?

[Guttersnipe]

I personally have only read "Bianca's Hands", "The Professor's Teddy Bear", "The Other Celia", and "The Bones." Which are your favorites of his, and what should I read if I want to read something quintessential to his style?

 

[dask]

Don't remember what it's about but I probably enjoyed "Thunder And Roses" more than anything else I've read by Sturgeon though admittedly I haven't read all that much by him. "Killdozer" is pretty good also.

 

[Randy M.]

I haven't read a lot of Sturgeon, but besides some of the ones already mentioned, I enjoyed "Microscopic God" (which feels like a precursor of one of George R. R. Martin's most well-known stories), "It" and "Slow Sculpture."

 

[BAYLOR]

It, The Golden Helix, The Man Who Lost the Sea Three really good stories by him .

 

[Hugh]

Thunder and Roses
When You're Smiling
Saucer of Loneliness (stunning)
Slow Sculpture
Mewhu's Jet
Mr Costello, Hero

I'd go for Saucer of Loneliness.

 

[BigBadBob141]

Why don't you buy the complete thirteen volume set of his short stories then you can see for your self!
Ah the joys of Amazon, what a wondrous age we live in!

 

[BAYLOR]

Much of his work was short fiction.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Amok Time

 

[Mark_Harbinger]

The Man Who Lost the Sea

Second Person Point of View? Present Tense? Oh, the horror! ;-)

 

[RH-X]

I really like "How to Kill Aunty". As you've read "The Professor's Teddybear", you can probably take "The Girl Had Guts", which is pretty horrifying as well. Note it's a novella, or near-enough.

 

[Orcadian]

It, The Golden Helix, The Man Who Lost the Sea Three really good stories by him .

The Man Who Lost the Sea is very powerful, and it's only at the very end that you finally understand. I recall being on the point of tears.

 

[BAYLOR]

It Read this one years ago in Alfred Hitchcock anthology. It was written in 1940 . Its a Horror story and a very good one .

 

[BAYLOR]

Killdozer The story was quite good . The 1974 film adaptation , not so good,

 

[BAYLOR]

Amok Time

And in the process created the whole Vulcan mating tradition for Star Trek.

 

[dolphintornsea]

This is not an opinion, but a fact: "The Man Who Lost the Sea" is strongly in the running for the best science fiction short story of the twentieth century.

Others:

Thunder and Roses
The Golden Helix
Mr. Costello, Hero
Bianca’s Hands
The Skills of Xanadu
Killdozer!
Bright Segment
The Sex Opposite
[The Widget], [The Wadget], and Boff
It
A Way of Thinking
Slow Sculpture
Microcosmic God
A Saucer of Loneliness
… and my fear is great …
The Ultimate Egoist
The World Well Lost
And Now the News …
Affair with a Green Monkey
The Other Celia
Hurricane Trio
Maturity
That Low
Bulkhead
Derm Fool
The Touch of Your Hand
Talent
The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast
Why Dolphins Don’t Bite
The Professor’s Teddy Bear
Vengeance Is
The Graveyard Reader
The Pod in the Barrier
When You’re Smiling
The Silken-Swift
Occam’s Scalpel

 

[BAYLOR]

The Man Who Lost the Sea is very powerful, and it's only at the very end that you finally understand. I recall being on the point of tears.

One of the greatest science fiction writers of all time .