E Pluribus Unicorn (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Theodore Sturgeon
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cultural exploration
- Time of Work: Various
- Setting: Primarily on Earth and a spaceship
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Mythical animals, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Cruelty
- Locales: Space, Earth
The Plot
The stories collected in E Pluribus Unicorn, originally published between 1947 and 1953, share an intense and compassionate examination of human behaviors of all kinds and descriptions, including the bizarre, the cruel, the abnormal, the tender, and the sexual. Theodore Sturgeon first broke into science fiction in 1937, rapidly becoming one of editor John Campbell’s famous “Golden Age writers”. The early, groundbreaking (and rule-breaking) stories of E Pluribus Unicorn, his second story collection (following Without Sorcery, 1948), display...
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