He sold his number 1 story around 1938 to the newspaper McClure's Syndicate which bought much of his early act (non-wow); his foremost genre appearance was a year late. Ab initio he wrote in the main short stories, primarily for the science fiction magazines like Astounding Science Fiction and Unknown, but as well for general-interest publications like Argosy Magazine. He is known to use utilized a pen name "E. Waldo Hunter" whenever ii of his stories ran in the equivalent issue of Astounding. He another time ghosted an Ellery Queen novel, The Streaming video player on the Other Side (Random Home, 1963).

Numbers of of Sturgeon's works have a poetic, even an elegiac, quality. He was known to have the system called "rhythmic prose", where his prose text would drop into the standard meter. This has a symptom of creating a subtle shift around mood, normally while forgoing alerting the reader to its are causal agents for.

Sturgeon wrote a screenplays for the Star Trek episodes "Shore Leave" (1966) and "Amok Time" (1967, later published around book form inside 1978). A latter is known for his invention of the Pon farr, the Vulcan mating ritual. Sturgeon as well wrote many episodes of Star Trek that were never produced. One of these was notable for getting number 1 introduced a Prime Directive. He besides wrote an episode of the Saturday morning indicate Land of the Lost, "The Pylon Express", inside 1975.

Although Sturgeon is easily known among readers of classic science-fiction anthologies (at a height of his popularity in the 1950s he was the virtually all anthologized creator alive) & good deal respected by critics (John Clute writes in the Science Fiction Encyclopedia: "His influence upon writers like Harlan Ellison and Samuel R. Delany was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerful and generally liberating influence in post-WWII US sf"), he is not much known among the general public and won comparatively few awards (though it must be noted that his best work was published before the establishment and consolidation of the leading genre awards, while his later production was scarcer and weaker). He was used as a primary influence of the great deal additional noted Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. Kurt Vonnegut has stated that his character Kilgore Trout was based on Theodore Sturgeon.

Sturgeon's Law is: "Nothing is always absolutely so."

There exists likewise Sturgeon's Revelation: "Ninety percent of everything is crud." Note that Sturgeon's Revelation is likewise ordinarily known as "Sturgeon's Law."

Corallary One: "The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere."

Corallary Two: "The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field."

2 of Sturgeon's stories were adapted for the tv program, The New Twilight Zone. 1, The Saucer of Loneliness in 1986, was dedicated to his memory.

Bibliography

His novels include: The Dreaming Jewels or The Synthetic Man (1950) More Than Human (1953, actually three coupled novelette) - winner of the International Fantasy Award The King and Four Queens (1956) I, Libertine (1956, as "Frederick R. Ewing") The Cosmic Rape (1958) To Marry Medusa (1958) Venus Plus X (1960) Some of Your Blood (1961) The Rare Breed (1966) Godbody (1986)

He was better known for his short stories. The sampling of Sturgeon short stories & novelette follows: "Ether Breather" (September, 1939, his first promulgated science-fiction story) "Derm Fool" (March, 1940) "It" (August, 1940) "Microcosmic God" (April, 1941) "Killdozer" (November, 1944) "Bianca's Hands" (Can, 1947) "Thunder and Roses" (November, 1947) "The Perfect Host" (November, 1948) "Minority Report" (June, 1949, no connection to the 2002 movie, which was based on the different story by Philip K. Dick) "One Foot and the Grave" (September, 1949) "The World Well Lost" (June, 1953) "Mr. Costello, Hero" (December, 1953) "The Skills of Xanadu" (July, 1956) "The Other Man" (September, 1956) "Need" (1960) "How to Forget Baseball" (December, 1964, originally appeared in Sports Illustrated) "The Nail and the Oracle" (October, 1964, originally appeared within Playboy) "Slow Sculpture" (Galaxy February 1970) - winner of a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award and a Locus Poll Award "Occam's Scalpel" (August, 1971)

North Atlantic Books is releasing a multi-volume A Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Volumes One across 10 come available when of February, 2005.