Without Sorcery

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Without Sorcery
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Theodore Sturgeon
Illustrator	L. Robert Tschirky
Cover artist	L. Robert Tschirky
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction and fantasy short stories
Publisher	Prime Press
Publication date	1948
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	355 pp
ISBN	NA
OCLC	5147779

Without Sorcery is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by author Theodore Sturgeon. The collection was first published in 1948 by Prime Press in an edition of 2,862 copies of which 80 were specially bound, slipcased and signed by the author and artist. The stories first appeared in the magazines Astounding and Unknown.

Introduction, by Ray Bradbury
"The Ultimate Egoist"
"It"
"Poker Face"
"Shottle Bop"
"Artnan Process"
"Memorial"
"Ether Breather"
"Butyl and the Breather"
"Brat"
"Two Percent Inspiration"
"Cargo"
"Maturity"
"Microcosmic God"

Publication history

1948, USA, Prime Press OCLC 5147779, Pub date 1948, Hardback
1961, USA, Ballantine Books OCLC 2235821, Pub date 1961, Paperback as Not Without Sorcery, omits 5 stories

It!

To promote Without Sorcery, Prime Press published the story "It" in advance of the full collection. The book was published in paperback in an edition of 200 copies OCLC 19372331. 50 copies were given away at the Associated Fantasy Publishers party at the 6th World Science Fiction Convention and most were signed by Sturgeon. Few of the remaining copies were sold and the remainder are assumed destroyed.

Reception

Boucher and McComas named Without Sorcery the best SF short fiction collection of 1949, citing the way Sturgeon "combines ingenious concepts with humor, humanity and sheer good writing."^[1] Astounding reviewer P. Schuyler Miller praised the collection, saying it included "perhaps the greatest variety of any short-story collection yet brought out by the fantasy publishers."^[2]

References

↑ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, February 1950, p.105
↑ "Book Reviews", Astounding Science Fiction, September 1949, p.152-53

Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 531. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)
Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-04-16.
Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 414. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.

v t e Theodore Sturgeon

Novels	The Dreaming Jewels More Than Human The Cosmic Rape Venus Plus X Some of Your Blood Godbody

Novelizations	The King and Four Queens Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea The Rare Breed

Pseudonymous novels	I, Libertine The Player on The Other Side

Short story collections	Without Sorcery E Pluribus Unicorn A Way Home Caviar A Touch of Strange Aliens 4 Beyond Sturgeon In Orbit Starshine Sturgeon Is Alive and Well... The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon Sturgeon's West Case and the Dreamer Visions and Venturers The Stars Are The Styx The Golden Helix

Short stories	"Baby Is Three" "Helix the Cat" "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" "It!" "Killdozer!" "Microcosmic God" "A Saucer of Loneliness" "Shottle Bop" "Slow Sculpture" "The World Well Lost"

Screenplays	Shore Leave Amok Time

Other subjects	Theodore Sturgeon Award Sturgeon's Law Pon farr Kilgore Trout

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Without Sorcery

Contents

Publication history

It!

Reception

References