Theodore Sturgeon | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Theodore Sturgeon.

Theodore Sturgeon | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Theodore Sturgeon.
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Authors had created monsters before, many whose names became synonyms for terror, but none of them had been treated with such objectivity or presented with such incredible mastery of style [as Theodore Sturgeon's monster in It].

"Styles" would have been the better term, for the author was a virtuoso, possessing an absolute pitch for the cadence of words, altering the mood and beat of his phraseology with the deliberateness of background music in a moving picture. (p. 230)

The Ether Breather was a clever spoof of the television industry, in a year when there was virtually no such industry, involving "etheric" intelligences that humorously altered television transmission. Lightly, almost frothily written, it invited examination of the style to no greater a degree than would a theatrical bedroom farce.

The same slick, lightweight prose and superficially bubbling good humor dominated A God in the Garden,… a fantasy in which a...

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