![]() "An intensely written novel and very moving novel of love and retribution. Vividly drawn, expertly plotted, The Dreaming Jewels is a Sturgeon masterpiece. In The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon renders the multiple wounds of loneliness, fear, and persecution with uncanny precision. And it is a difference some people might want to use.īut his difference risks not only his own life but the lives of the outcasts who provided for him, for so many years, with a place to call home. Theodore Sturgeon sold his first short story in 1938, but The Dreaming Jewels (retitled The Synthetic Man in a 1957 reprint) did not appear until 1950. Placeholder for my own photo The Freak- They caught Horty doing something disgusting out under the bleachers. This is the strange tale of Horty, a little boy who ran away from home and took. The Dreaming Jewels By Theodore Sturgeon. For when he loses three fingers in an accident and they grow back, it becomes clear that Horty is not like other boys. Read The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon available from Rakuten Kobo. Performing alongside the fireaters, snakemen and "little people," Horty is accepted. So he runs away from home and joins a carnival. His adoptive parents are violent his classmates are cruel. "One of the masters of modern science fiction."- The Washington Post Book WorldĮight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards ![]()
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