Editing Theodore Sturgeon (section)

===1960s and '70s: Ellery Queen and TV scripts===
Sturgeon [[ghost-writer|ghost-wrote]] one [[Ellery Queen]] [[Mystery (fiction)|mystery]] novel, ''The Player on the Other Side'' (Random House, 1963).  This novel was praised by critic [[H. R. F. Keating]]: "[I] had almost finished writing ''Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books'', in which I had included ''The Player on the Other Side''&nbsp;... placing the book squarely in the Queen canon"<ref name="KEAT">Keating, H. R. F. (1989). ''The Bedside Companion to Crime''. New York: Mysterious Press.</ref> when he learned that it had been written by Sturgeon. Similarly, William DeAndrea, author and winner of [[Mystery Writers of America]] awards, selecting his ten favorite mystery novels for the magazine ''Armchair Detective'', picked ''The Player on the Other Side'' as one of them.  He said: "This book changed my life&nbsp;... and made a raving mystery fan (and therefore ultimately a mystery writer) out of me.&nbsp;... The book must be 'one of the most skillful pastiches in the history of literature. An amazing piece of work, whomever did it'."<ref name="KEAT" />

Sturgeon wrote the screenplays for the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episodes "[[Shore Leave (Star Trek)|Shore Leave]]" (1966) and "[[Amok Time]]" (1967, adapted as a [[Bantam Books]] "Star Trek Fotonovel" in 1978).<ref name=isfdb/> The latter featured the first appearance of [[pon farr]], the [[Vulcan (Star Trek)|Vulcan]] mating ritual, the sentence "Live long and prosper"{{sfnp|Nimoy|1995|p=67}} and the [[Vulcan salute|Vulcan hand symbol]]. Sturgeon also wrote several more ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' scripts that were never produced. One of these first introduced the [[Prime Directive]]. 

Sturgeon also wrote an episode of the Saturday morning show ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'', "[[The Pylon Express]]", in 1975. His 1944 novella ''[[Killdozer! (story)|Killdozer!]]'' was the inspiration for the 1974 [[Killdozer (film)|made-for-TV movie]], [[Marvel comic]] book, and [[Killdozer (band)|alternative rock band]] of the same name, as well as becoming the colloquial name for [[Marvin Heemeyer]]'s 2004 bulldozer rage incident.