Editing Theodore Sturgeon (section)

==Works==
===Novels===
* ''[[The Dreaming Jewels]]'' (1950) <small> Also published as ''The Synthetic Man'' </small>
* ''[[More Than Human]]'' (1953) <small>[[Fix-up]] of three linked novellas, the first and third written around ''[[Baby Is Three]]'' (Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1952)</small>
* ''[[The Cosmic Rape]]'' (1958) <small>A shorter version was published as ''To Marry Medusa''</small>
* ''[[Venus Plus X]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Some of Your Blood]]'' (1961)
* ''[[Godbody]]'' (1986) <small>Published posthumously</small>

====Novelizations====
Sturgeon, under his own name, was hired to write novelizations of the following movies based on their scripts (links go to articles about the movies):
* ''[[The King and Four Queens]]'' (1956)
* ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'' (1961)  The book is described in ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel)]]''.
* ''[[The Rare Breed]]'' (1966)

====Pseudonymous novels====
* ''[[I, Libertine]]'' (1956): Historical novel created as a for-hire hoax.  Credited to "Frederick R. Ewing", written from a premise by [[Jean Shepherd]].
* ''The Player on The Other Side'' (1963): Mystery novel credited to [[Ellery Queen]] and [[ghost-writer|ghost-written]] with Queen's assistance and supervision.

===Short stories===

Sturgeon published numerous short story collections during his lifetime, many drawing on his most prolific writing years of the 1940s and 1950s.

Note that some reprints of these titles (especially paperback editions) may cut one or two stories from the line-up.  Statistics herein refer to the original editions only.

====Collections published during Sturgeon's lifetime====

The following table includes sixteen volumes (one of them collecting [[Western (genre)|western]] stories).  These are considered "original" collections of Sturgeon material, in that they compiled previously uncollected stories.  However, some volumes did contain a few reprinted stories: this list includes books that collected only previously uncollected material, as well as those volumes that collected ''mostly'' new material, but also contained up to three stories (representing no more than half the book) that were previously published in a Sturgeon collection.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2"| Title
! rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| <small>Number <br /> of stories</small>
! rowspan="2"| <small>previously <br /> collected</small>
! colspan="2"| <small>Originally published</small>
|- style="font-size:smaller"
! Earliest story 
! Latest story
|-
|''[[Without Sorcery]]''
!1948
!13
|
|1939
|1947
|-
|''[[E Pluribus Unicorn]]''
!1953
!13
|
|1947
|1953
|-
|''A Way Home''
!1955
!11
|
|1946
|1955
|-
|''Caviar''
!1955
!7
| align=center | 1
|1941
|1955
|-
|''A Touch of Strange''
!1958
!11
|
|1953
|1958
|-
|''Aliens 4''
!1959
!4
|
|1944
|1958
|-
|''Beyond''
!1960
!6
|
|1941
|1960
|-
|''Sturgeon In Orbit''
!1964
!5
|
|1951
|1955
|-
|''Starshine''
!1966
!6
| align=center | 3
|1940
|1961
|-
|''Sturgeon Is Alive and Well ...''
!1971
!11
|
|1954
|1971
|-
|''The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon''
!1972
!10
| align=center | 3
|1941
|1962
|-
| ''Sturgeon's West'' ([[Western (genre)|westerns]])
!1973
!7
|
| 1949 || 1973
|-
|''Case and the Dreamer''
!1974
! 3
|
|1962
|1973
|-
|''Visions and Venturers''
!1978
!8
| align=center | 1
|1942
|1965
|-
|''The Stars Are The Styx''
!1979
!10
| align=center | 1
| 1951 || 1971
|-
| ''The Golden Helix''
!1979
!10
| align=center | 3
| 1941 || 1973
|}

The following six collections consisted entirely of reprints of previously collected material:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2"| Title
! rowspan="2"| Year
! colspan="3"| Stories
! rowspan="2"| Notes
|- style="font-size:smaller"
! Number
! Earliest
! Latest
|-
|''Thunder and Roses''
!1957
!8
| 1946
| 1955
| selected from 11 in 1955's "A Way Home"
|-
|''Not Without Sorcery''
!1961
!8
| 1939
| 1941
| selected from 13 in 1948's [[Without Sorcery]]
|-
|''The Joyous Invasions''
!1965
!3
| 1955
| 1958
| selected from 4 in 1959's "Aliens 4"
|-
|''To Here and the Easel''
!1973
!6
| 1941 || 1958
|-
|''Maturity''
!1979
!3
| 1947 || 1958
|-
|''Alien Cargo''
!1984
!14
| 1940 || 1956
|}

====Complete short stories====
[[North Atlantic Books]] released the chronologically assembled ''The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon'', edited by [[Paul Williams (Crawdaddy! creator)|Paul Williams]]. The series consisted of 13 volumes published between 1994 and 2010. Introductions were provided by [[Harlan Ellison]], [[Samuel R. Delany]], [[Kurt Vonnegut]], [[Gene Wolfe]], [[Connie Willis]], [[Jonathan Lethem]], and others. Extensive story notes were provided by [[Paul Williams (Crawdaddy! creator)|Paul Williams]] and, in the last two volumes, Sturgeon's daughter Noël.

* Volume I – ''The Ultimate Egoist'' (1937 to 1940)
* Volume II – ''Microcosmic God'' (1940 to 1941)
* Volume III – ''Killdozer'' (1941 to 1946)
* Volume IV – ''Thunder and Roses'' (1946 to 1948)
* Volume V – ''The Perfect Host'' (1948 to 1950)
* Volume VI – ''Baby is Three'' (1950 to 1952)
* Volume VII – ''A Saucer of Loneliness'' (1953)
* Volume VIII – ''Bright Segment'' (1953 to 1955, as well as two "lost" stories from 1946)
* Volume IX – ''And Now the News...'' (1955 to 1957)
* Volume X – ''The Man Who Lost the Sea'' (1957 to 1960)
* Volume XI – ''The Nail and the Oracle'' (1961 to 1969)
* Volume XII – ''Slow Sculpture'' (1970 to 1972, plus one 1954 novella and one unpublished story)
* Volume XIII – ''Case and The Dreamer'' (1972 to 1983, plus one 1960 story and three unpublished stories)

===Representative short stories===
Sturgeon was best known for his short stories and novellas. The best-known include:
* "Ether Breather" (September 1939, his first published science-fiction story)
* "Derm Fool" (March 1940)
* "[[It! (story)|It]]" (August 1940)
* "[[Shottle Bop]]" (February 1941)
* "[[Microcosmic God]]" (April 1941)
* "Yesterday Was Monday" (1941)
* "[[Killdozer! (story)|Killdozer!]]" (November, 1944)
* "Maturity" (February, 1947)
* "Bianca's Hands" (May, 1947)
* "Thunder and Roses" (November 1947)
* "The Perfect Host" (November 1948)
* "It Wasn't Syzygy" (January 1948)
* "Minority Report" (June 1949, no connection to the [[Minority Report (film)|2002 movie]], which was based on a later story by [[Philip K. Dick]])
* "One Foot and the Grave" (September 1949)
* "[[Baby Is Three]]" (October 1952)
* "[[A Saucer of Loneliness]]" (February 1953)
* "[[The World Well Lost]]" (June 1953)
* "Mr. Costello, Hero" (December 1953)
* "The [Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff" (1955)
* "The Skills of Xanadu" (July 1956)
* "The Other Man" (September 1956)
* "And Now The News" (December 1956)
* "The Girl Had Guts" (January 1957)
* "[[The Man Who Lost the Sea]]" (October 1959)
* "Need" (1960)
* "How to Forget Baseball" (''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', December 1964)
* "The Nail and the Oracle" (''[[Playboy]]'', October 1964)
* "[[If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?]]" (1967, ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'' anthology edited by [[Harlan Ellison]])—[[Nebula Award]] 1967 Nominee Novella
* "The Man Who Learned Loving"—[[Nebula Award]] 1969 Nominee Short Story
* "[[Slow Sculpture]]" (''[[Galaxy (magazine)|Galaxy]]'', February 1970) — winner of a [[Hugo Award]] and a [[Nebula Award]]
* "Occam's Scalpel" (August, 1971, with an introduction by [[Terry Carr]])
* "Vengeance Is." (1980, ''Dark Forces'' anthology edited by Kirby McCauley)

===Autobiography===
* ''Argyll: A Memoir'' (pamphlet, Sturgeon Project, 1993), an autobiographical sketch about Sturgeon's relationship with his stepfather. Introduction by his editor Paul Williams. Afterword by [[Samuel R. Delany]]. Cover art by [[Paul Williams (Crawdaddy! creator)#Family|Donna Nassar]]. The memoir, written for his psychotherapist, has many suggestions about his life, starting from his family's move from Staten Island to Philadelphia when his stepfather got a job at Drexel University and Sturgeon and his brother were still in the local public school to their attempts to catch poison ivy to delay the move—"Then we moved to Philadelphia, a little apartment on 34 Street with a sort of sun room, which was Argyll's study and had a single couch which was his and Mother's bed, and a kind of living room with a kitchenette built into one wall, where we slept on the floor on mattresses."— and his father's treatment of a puppy he couldn't discipline—"... he used to whip her with a wire after rubbing her nose in it—so he got rid of her" (p. 14). These go on to include Sturgeon's first gay experiences in his 14th year—"So [20-year-old] Bert blew me practically continuously from Friday evening until dinner time Sunday; we kept score and I came 14 times. Sweet are the uses of respectability. My God! It never occurred to me until this minute that Dr. Taft was probably the one—the only one, as sole mentor, who could possibly have insured Argyll's total ignorance!" (p.&nbsp;52); and in his long letter to his mother and Argyll, included in the same volume, Sturgeon harshly critiques his first novel, ''[[The Dreaming Jewels]]'': "My use of one detested Argyll would have been fine, but one wasn't enough; there had to be two, and as a result the balance of the work was destroyed and its literary worth was lost in vengeful polemic" (p. 62).