Whelp, read my first ever collection of stories by Theodore Sturgeon! This one is a collection from the 50s titled "A Way Home"
It's a very nice and tidy little collection of stories, at least about in total. Most of the stories in this collection are on the longish side, novellas of course, and there were at least a couple of shorter ones too. And all nine of them were pretty good!
Sturgeon is one of those writers of the golden age that I've never read before, but was very interested in his work. And when I got to read one of his stories in Ellison's "Dangerous Visions", I pretty much wanted to read more of his stuff, and so I began to keep an eye out for his stuff whenever I'm in a used book store.
Best way I can describe Sturgeon's style as writerly. Probably not in the sense of mainstream fiction, but more in the sense of a few other golden age writers like Ray Bradbury and Henry Kuttner, so something more along the lines of stylist. Very easy to see him as an influence to New Wave SciFi that would come a decade later, as he mixes both action and social commentary into his stories.
He's written a few novels (and I love to get my hands on some of those!) but he's much more well known for his short stories as there are quite a lot of collections! If I ever see another of his collections, or at least one of his novels, I'm swooping in and picking it up!
by i-the-muso-1968