science fiction
author.
His most famous novel is More Than Human
(1953).
Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York in 1918. His name was legally changed to Theodore Sturgeon—not a pseudonym—at age eleven after his mother's divorce
and remarriage to William Dicky ("Argyll") Sturgeon.
He sold his first story in 1938 to the McClure Syndicate
, which bought much of his early (non-fantastic) work; his first genre appearance was "Ether Breather" in Astounding Science Fiction a year later.
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
That Heel. That lousy wart on the nose of progress.
Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be welded stronger than what you started with.
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?