![]() ![]() The saga of the “Maneater” and the trees stands as an especially strong example. However, the story of the misunderstood outsider who becomes a hero hardly seems new, and (as other reviewers have noted), beneath Sturgeon’s excellent prose we have something very like a conventional superhero story. In some respects, this book reads like nothing else, neither strictly a juvenile nor an adult novel, and it features an underlying premise which seems original. ![]() We also receive too much direct exposition in order to explain the backstory. This book inhabits a space between juvenile and adult SF, and its somewhat pat ending recalls too closely the former. Sturgeon creates an original other and uses it to serve his thematic ends. The nature of The Dreaming Jewels‘ alien presence is bizarre and believable. ![]() Among the sideshow “freaks” he finds acceptance, and the truth about his mysterious origins. While it may not be his best work, it holds up, decades later.Īn oddball child, bullied by his peers and abused by his foster father, runs away and joins the carnival. This freakish first novel by Theodore Sturgeon first appeared in 1950. “They caught the kid doing something disgusting out under the bleachers at the high school stadium…” ![]()
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