The Dreaming Jewels

Name: The Dreaming Jewels
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN: 9781433275258

Author: Theodore Sturgeon

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 6 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 09/21/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Eightyearold Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs away from home and joins a carnival. Performing alongside the fireaters, snakemen and little people, Horty is finally accepted. But he is not safe. When he loses three fingers in an accident and they grow back, it becomes clear that Horty is not like other boysand this difference is something that some people might want to use. Now Horty knows that his difference is a risk not only to his own life, but to the lives of the outcasts who have provided him with a place to call home.

About Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) is considered one of the godfathers of contemporary science fiction and dark fantasy. The author of numerous acclaimed short stories and novels, among them the classics More Than Human, Venus Plus X, and To Marry Medusa, Sturgeon also wrote for television and holds among his credits two episodes of the original 1960s Star Trek series, for which he created the Vulcan mating ritual and the expression "Live long and prosper." He is also credited as the inspiration for Kurt Vonnegut's recurring fictional character Kilgore Trout.

Sturgeon is the recipient of the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the International Fantasy Award. In 2000, he was posthumously honored with a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matteo on February 19, 2022

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Goodreads review by Michael on March 25, 2019

I’ll admit right off that one of my reading weaknesses is classic science fiction. Oh, I like the modern stuff, too, don’t get me wrong. But it just seems like there was a certain extra gear of craftsmanship in the older novels and short stories. Bradbury, Aldiss, Carter, Asimov, Moorcock, Blish…..t......more

Goodreads review by Francesco on January 08, 2020

Valutazione: 4.75. Acquisto effettuato letteralmente a scatola chiusa, d'impulso. Nella piccola sezione fantascientifica della grande Feltrinelli bolognese, poco prima di Natale, m'imbattevo in una visione conturbante: un inconfondibile volumetto Adelphi, quasi sperduto in mezzo agli scaffali, inseri......more

Goodreads review by Liz on December 05, 2013

Last Christmas, I mentioned to my parents that I'd like to read more science fiction. Being the hella-nerds they are, mom and dad pooled their resources and, predictably, went overboard. Christmas morning, I unwrapped a giant cardboard box filled with sci-fi paperbacks. I was overwhelmed, but please......more

Goodreads review by Raffaello on August 08, 2020

L'umanità è un concetto caro agli anormali, che la vagheggiano melanconicamente, che affermano il loro diritto di farne parte con un anelito aberrante, che non desistono dall'invocarla tendendo le loro braccia rachitiche.......more