More Than Human
More Than Human
Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Desc: There's Lone the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie who moves things without touching them and there are the teleporting twins who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle and Gerry who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience. Separately they are talented freaks. Together they compose a single organism that may represent the next step in evolution and the final chapter in the history of the human race. In this genre-bending novel - among the first to have launched scifi into the arena of literature - one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a story as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger's soul. For as the protagonists of More Than Human struggle to find who they are and whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it. Theodore Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality individuality and belonging with suspense pathos and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction.