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Summary: The ending makes the story
Review: A very good tale. According to Sturgeon ,the next step in human evolution is not only about having mental powers ,but also functioning on a sinergetic level.That is ,a number of psychics ,all with different powers such as teleportation ,telekinesis ,hypnotic-telepathy and human-cumputer abilities (idiot-savant etc') ,all becoming one entity who looks upon itself as Homo-gestalt ,and upon the rest of humanity as a herd of sheep. the book is divided into three parts. The first depicting the Homo-gestalt's forming ,the second ,the replacment of it's "head" ,the individual who makes everyone be one ,and the third- how and why that man becomes moral though no human rules aply to him. He is superior ,not only in his own mind but truly in every aspect. why should he obey our rules? if you were all alone would you conform to the social rules and mores of mice? But there is something ,and the few last paragraphs turn the whole story into really wide-scale ,optimistic and exciting science fiction. Very modern concepts there ,by the way ,on mental powers ,such as I would not expect from a 1953 book. recommended.
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Summary: Undescribable
Review: Damon Knight gave the best description of this book over 40years ago: "It is the best and only one of its kind. It movesfrom here to there like a catenary arc, hits one note like the Last Trump, then ends. I'm damned if I'll describe it. Just read it." After 40 years, I couldn't agree with him more. Do yourself a favor and read it
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Summary: The best and only book of it's kind.
Review: Damon Knight in his review at the time of the original publication said "It's a single story that goes from here to there like a catenary arc, hits one note like The Last Trump when it gets there, and ends. Ther's nothing more to be said other than it's the best and only book of it's kind. I'm damned if I'll explain it. Just read it." The best writing science fiction has to offer. Theodore Sturgeon understood the human heart more than any science fiction author before or since. I'm damned if I'll explain it. Just read it.
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Summary: An important, brilliant, wonderful book
Review: Definitely one of my ten favorite science fiction novels. It's no easier to describe MORE THAN HUMAN than it would be to duplicate it. Simply put, it is a stunning, strange and deeply ambitious novel, one of the most important books of the 20th Century. If you're at all interested in real science fiction, look no further than this book. --Thomas S. Roche is the co-editor of IN THE SHADOW OF THE GARGOYLE and editor of the NOIROTICA series.
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Summary: Like X-Men from Faulkner
Review: Havine read the much-anthologized "Baby Is Three" multiple times, I've just read this entire "novel." Coming right on the heels of a very impressive revisit with Bradbury's _Martian Chronicles_, this book's dark and violent tone is very striking and well-crafted. Within the first 40 pages or so, there's incest and child abuse, S&M, suicide, telepathic idiots, child geniuses, and a young telekinetic girl. Set in what I take to be the 1950s, the book strikes me as what the X-Men would have been like if created by William Faulkner .... perhaps channeled many years later by David Lynch. This isn't typical science fiction of ANY era, much less the 1950s, when the genre was struggling against its pulp-action tendencies. Rather, this excellent book should appeal to readers of horror, gothic, and quality literature of the Burroughs and Bowles sort.
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Summary: Like X-Men from Faulkner
Review: Havine read the much-anthologized "Baby Is Three" multiple times, I've just read this entire "novel." Coming right on the heels of a very impressive revisit with Bradbury's _Martian Chronicles_, this book's dark and violent tone is very striking and well-crafted. Within the first 40 pages or so, there's incest and child abuse, S&M, suicide, telepathic idiots, child geniuses, and a young telekinetic girl. Set in what I take to be the 1950s, the book strikes me as what the X-Men would have been like if created by William Faulkner .... perhaps channeled many years later by David Lynch. This isn't typical science fiction of ANY era, much less the 1950s, when the genre was struggling against its pulp-action tendencies. Rather, this excellent book should appeal to readers of horror, gothic, and quality literature of the Burroughs and Bowles sort.
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Summary: Unbelieveable
Review: I am a teenage writer and I just got finished reading this book. the whole time I was like, "This is SF?!" Astoundingly beautiful, compellling, awesome. Rivals the best fantasy ever written. This is the level of greatness that takes years upon years of hard work to reach, and still most never get this good. Heck, I'm just going to say it. This is the best science fiction novel ever written. If you are a writer of fiction--whether it be fantasy, sci-fi, or general--you must read this. Eric
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Summary: ....priceless book.
Review: I can say I'd easily have an unlimited supply of words ready to award this book with it's due praise. Although, it will rob you of the potential mystery-something that greatly contributed to my connection with this book. So, you'll have to trust me. Hell, I MIStrusted my anti-fiction judgement(afterall, the blurb does not say it all with fiction, especially when the work has no cover)quite arbitrarily when I picked up this book one fateful day in a thrift store. No, not fateful day, decisive day. Anyone who cares enough to comment should, I believe, seek not to spoil this mystery, lest you wish to be equivalent to those annoying gossipers loitering outside the movie theatre discussing quite loudly the outcome of the movie you are about to witness...... So, mistrust your directness(blandness), and trust me.
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Summary: My Favorite of all time
Review: I have read this book several times and yet I could read it again and I know I would still get the same shock, the same feeling deep inside. At times I felt that, like the character "Lone", Sturgeon was looking deep into my eyes and extracting everything I know. I usually read it in one sitting because I simply cannot put it down. The first chapter "And Baby Makes Three", is so well written that it was once published seperately as a short story.
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Summary: As good as William Faulkner
Review: I once had my English Professor at University , in the 1960's,
read this novel. And he said, "This is as good as anything Faulkner wrote."
Enough said!
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