the dreaming jewels by theodore sturgeon

I imagine back when it was first published in 1950 they had a bit of trouble classifying it, containing as it does child abuse, sex changes, murder, infidelity and some close to the bone innuendo.

It’s what gets called Dark Fantasy these days. But it’s not really fantasy either, or horror. The Dreaming Jewels isn’t really science fiction. I quickly found out it wasn’t really science fiction at all – but I was hooked after the very first paragraph anyway, so that didn’t matter any more. But it said it was science fiction on the front, so I took it home. A name caught my eye – Sturgeon, which I knew was a kind of fish, and thought was a strange name for a person. One day that summer I was in the local library looking for something new as I’d burned my way through my aforementioned favorite authors. I’d also read a few of Dennis Wheatley’s books by then, and I’d been thrilled by the horror / satanic aspects of the old bigot’s work, but his upper-crust characters were so far removed from my Scottish council estate life that I couldn’t identify with them at all. I know it’s a scarily long time ago, and many of you weren’t even born, but picture a wee Scots lad, 13 years old, and a science fiction geek in love with Asimov, Clarke, Wells and Wyndham. He’d been doing it for years.”Ĭome with me back to 1971. Urn:oclc:17566701 Republisher_date 20180829163345 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 345 Scandate 20180820122704 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Top_six true Tts_version v1.“They caught the kid doing something disgusting out under the bleachers at the high school stadium and he was sent home from the grammar school across the street. OL14868316W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.42 Pages 200 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:083982467X Urn:lcp:dreamingjewels00stur:epub:f3374c54-5026-4899-8dc6-e2274240fd21 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dreamingjewels00stur Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6xw8f79p Invoice 1213 Isbn 0312941188Ĩ5001281 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary O元021120M Openlibrary_edition Donorīurlingamepubliclibrary Edition Bluejay illustrated ed. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:40:43 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1330507 City New York, N.Y.

The dreaming jewels by theodore sturgeon