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From the back cover of Del Rey paperback November 1978: The coming of the superman without a superego! Take six people -- extraordinary people. And stir in the melting pot of creation. Take away their human frailties. Burnish their strengths. And create a superman -- **Homo gestalt**, the last step in man's evolution. Now step back... and learn the meaning of fear!
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- Author
- Theodore Sturgeon
- First published
- July 1979
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, New York, Science Fiction Book Club, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- German, French, Korean, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780374212926
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**Theodore Sturgeon** (Ted) was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York. He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy." His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon. As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of rheumatic fever. From 1935 to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine. He sold his first story in 1938, and his first science fiction story, "Ether Breather" was published in Astounding Scien
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