E Pluribus Unicorn is a collection of fantasy and science fiction stories by Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction author.His most famous novel is More Than Human .-Biography:...

, published in 1953 by Abelard.

Contents

• "Essay on Sturgeon" by Groff Conklin
  Groff Conklin
  Edward Groff Conklin was a leading science fiction anthologist. He edited 40 anthologies of science fiction, one of mystery stories , wrote books on home improvement and was a freelance writer on scientific subjects as well as a published poet...
  
  
• "The Silken-Swift"
• "The Professor's Teddy-Bear"
• "Bianca's Hands"
• "Saucer of Loneliness"
• "The World Well Lost
  The World Well Lost
  "The World Well Lost" is a science-fiction short story by Theodore Sturgeon, first published in the June 1953 issue of Universe. It has been reprinted several times, for instance in Sturgeon's collections E Pluribus Unicorn, Starshine, and A Saucer of Loneliness...
  
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• "It Wasn't Syzygy"
• "The Music"
• "Scars"
• "Fluffy"
• "The Sex Opposite"
• "Die, Maestro, Die!"
• "Cellmate"
• "A Way of Thinking"

Reception

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." Boucher

Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle...

 and McComas

J. Francis McComas

Jesse Francis McComas was an American science fiction editor. McComas wrote several stories on his own in the 1950s using both his own name and the pseudonym Webb Marlowe....

 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"; they still concluded that Unicorn was "a book belonging in any fantasy library." P. Schuyler Miller

P. Schuyler Miller

Peter Schuyler Miller was an American science fiction writer and critic.-Life:Miller was raised in New York's Mohawk Valley, which led to a life-long interest in the Iroquois Indians. He pursued this as an amateur archaeologist and a member of the New York State Archaeological Association.He...

praised the collection as "one of the finest short story collections by any writer in the field."