[SKRIVA] Universitet får Sturgeons samling
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:02:32 +0200
Kansasuniversitetet får sf-författaren Theodore Sturgeons efterlämnade arkiv:
http://io9.com/5819886/university-library-gets-theodore-sturgeons-original-notes-for-more-than-human-and-amok-time
"According to the press release, the collection includes:
• Original manuscript and multiple film script treatments of "More Than Human,"
Sturgeon's best-known novel
• Sturgeon's notes and outline for "Amok Time," one of two "Star Trek" episodes
he wrote. In "Amok Time," Spock returns to Vulcan to meet his intended future
wife
• Correspondence, story ideas and drafts shared with noted science fiction
editors and authors, including John W. Campbell, Robert Heinlein, Edgar
Pangborn, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Gene Roddenberry and
T.H. White
• Sturgeon's rewrite of a L. Ron Hubbard article submitted to Amazing Stories
magazine titled "Dianetics: Supermen in 1950 AD"
• His adoption papers, in which his name was changed
The press release gives a pretty great summary of why Sturgeon remains so
important, too:
Best known for transforming the pulp magazine short story into an art form,
Sturgeon's writing had a strong influence on '60s counterculture, including the
Grateful Dead and Crosby, Stills and Nash. His lyrical and varied style
represented a turn from the "hard" science fiction of the 1940s to the socially
conscious topics more common in contemporary science fiction, including
sexuality, gender, pacifism and the individual cost of social conventions. His
short stories ranged from science fiction and fantasy to comedy and horror.
Sturgeon was also known for coining "Sturgeon's Law," which states that "90
percent of everything is crap"* and the credo "Ask the next question." "
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