More Than Human

From one of the greatest practitioners of science fiction comes a genre-bending novel that is as affectingly humane as it is speculatively daring.There's Lone, who can make a man blow his own brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and the unique power of the teleporting twins. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine wh...

From one of the greatest practitioners of science fiction comes a genre-bending novel that is as affectingly humane as it is speculatively daring.There's Lone, who can make a man blow his own brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and the unique power of the teleporting twins. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world -- except for a conscience. Separately, they are talented freaks. Together they compose a single organism that may represent the next step in evolution. As the protagonist of More Than Human struggle to find out whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Theodore Sturgeon explores the questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with sophistication and lyricism rarely seen in science fiction.

西奥多·斯特金（1918-1985）美国著名科幻作家，现代科幻小说奠基人之一。曾获国际奇幻奖、雨果奖、星云奖，2000年入选科幻与奇幻名人堂。因他命名的西奥多·斯特金纪念奖已成为最重要的科幻奖项之一。斯特金对幻想文学的各个门类均有所涉猎，如奇幻、恐怖、侦探等等，还参与创作了著名的Star Trek系列。但他最擅长的还是科幻小说。其特点是融合了恐怖、悬念等因素，更引入心理分析的手段，将科幻小说的领域扩展至人文与社会科学范畴——这一点深刻地影响了后来的新浪潮运动，以及雷·布拉德伯里等一大批作家。