You may be looking for The Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust: the Literary Trust page has information about the new books published by North Atlantic Books, which include some previously unpublished short stories. The TS Literary Trust are the folks who own the copyrights to Sturgeon's work.

NEWS: Paul Williams, the editor of the "Collected Stories", is very ill and can use your help.

All 13 volumes of "Collected Stories..." have been published (July 2011). See The Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust page for more info. See also interesting commentary here.

There was a recollection by W. Sturgeon on the web, of her and Ted watching the first moon landing -- this link now only available via the Wayback Machine/Internet Archive. W. writes to me, "Ted and I discussed this so often afterwards, it was very important to him."

Updates to the Theodore Sturgeon Page:
8-25-13: Link added to new video by Open Road Media
2-11-10: Link added to a fascinating essay by Hart Williams
5-30-09: Interview with Ted Alvy about Sturgeon now online

This web site has some unique articles:

• Complete list of books and stories
• The Works of Theodore Sturgeon - hyperlinked database compiled by Wm F Seabrook.
• Theodore Sturgeon FAQ
• Recollections of Sturgeon by people who met him / knew him well
• An interview with Theodore Sturgeon, by David D. Duncan (originally published in the Phoenix, the University of Tennessee literary magazine, in 1979)
• The Garden of the Plynck -- An out-of-print book recommended by Sturgeon
• A story inspired by Sturgeon
• Radio interview with Sturgeon on the subject of poetry
• 1967 article "Ask the next question" by Sturgeon
  

Other information:

1. Pictures
2. Biography
3. Sturgeon's varied creations
4. Miscellaneous Information
5. Reviews of Sturgeon's work
6. Other authors Sturgeon influenced
7. Links of related interest
8. Thanks and acknowledgements

Picture above provided by A. Sturgeon, taken by W. Sturgeon.

Biography

Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo on February 26, 1918, at Staten Island, New York. In 1927 his parents divorced, and in 1929 his mother remarried William Sturgeon; around this time Edward changed his name to Theodore because he liked the nickname "Ted". His first story, "Heavy Insurance," was sold in 1938 for five dollars to McClure's Syndicate for publication in newspapers. The sale of "The God in the Garden" to Unknown was his first published science fiction story. Sturgeon died on May 8, 1985.

His novel More Than Human won the International Fantasy Award. "Slow Sculpture" won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. He was posthumously awarded the Life Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Awards.

This information was gleaned from "Theodore Sturgeon" by Lucy Menger (1981), and from the introduction to "The Ultimate Egoist: volume I: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon" (1994). Menger's book is an inexpensive biography/discussion of Sturgeon's work. I found it in an overstock/used book store for $1.

• Stories about Sturgeon (not by him)
• More biographical information is contained in the Theodore Sturgeon FAQ
• An obituary of Sturgeon, part of George Willick's SPACELIGHT: Vital Statistics of science fiction/fantasy authors.

Sturgeon's varied creations

• Books and stories
  • Complete list of books and stories
  • The Works of Theodore Sturgeon - hyperlinked database compiled by Bill Seabrook.
  • Two short stories online; these are legal as scifi.com has purchased the rights.
    • The Girl Had Guts
    • The Other Celia
  • Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase listing of Theodore Sturgeon's work.
  • Sturgeon's stories have been widely anthologized. (From The Locus Index)
  • Why was the novel "I, Libertine" written? People wanted to read this book long before Sturgeon knew it existed. (by Bob Kaye)
  • 2006: "Some of Your Blood" has been re-released by Millipede Press
  • Reprinted story on web: The Girl Had Guts (Venture SF, January 1957)
  • Reprinted story on web: The Other Celia (Galaxy, March 1957) (Thanks to Bobby Josson for pointing out these links)
• Articles:
  • "Ask the next question", June 1967 Cavalier Magazine
  • Seabrook's database listing of Sturgeon's nonfiction
• Radio:
  • NPR broadcasted a dramatization of "Hurricane Trio" on Sept 5, 2000 and will rebroadcast it March 6, 2001. And, you can buy a copy of this program here (it's on page 3).
  • Several of Sturgeon's stories were broadcast on the radio show "X Minus One." ("Mr. Costello, Hero," "The Stars are the Styx," and "Saucer of Loneliness.")
  • Radio interview with Sturgeon on the subject of poetry
• Television:
  • Information about the three episodes of Star Trek written by Sturgeon. (1966, '67)
  • Sturgeon wrote an episode of the children's TV show "Land of the Lost", in the 2nd season Also, his wife W. Sturgeon wrote an episode in the 1st season. Dave Eversole emailed me:
    "On the recently released LAND OF THE LOST Season 1 Box Set, SF writer and LOTL Season 1 Story Editor (and actually "De facto" creator of the show) David Gerrold himself relates that Ted was busy elsewhere and declined to contribute a story when he asked him, but Wina asked if she could have a crack at submitting one.

    Gerrold said it was her first script ever and he worked closely with her, but surprisingly it needed very little rewriting."

    David Gerrold talks about all this in this online interview. See also interesting commentary on LOTL here.
  • Sturgeon helped write an episode of the TV show "The Invaders". (1967)
  • Two episodes of "The New Twilight Zone" were based on Sturgeon's stories "Yesterday was Monday" and "A Saucer of Loneliness". (1985, '86) The first one was an episode called "A Matter of Minutes", the second retained the original title.
• Movies:
  • "Killdozer" was made into a movie. This site changes their links sometimes, so this link may or may not work, same with the next three links.
  • "King and Four Queens" was novelized by Sturgeon - a western
  • "The Rare Breed" was novelized by Sturgeon - a western
  • "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was novelized by Sturgeon
  • The story "Bright Segment" was made into a French film. (Sturgeon discusses this briefly in the story introduction in the book Alien Cargo.)
• A Play:
  • Information about a play written by Lisa Morton based on Sturgeon's short story "The Graveyard Reader".

Miscellaneous Information

• The Potlach 10 con featured "Thunder and Roses" as it's book of honor; the con was Feb 23-25, 2001 in San Francisco.
• An interview with Theodore Sturgeon, by David D. Duncan (originally published in the Phoenix, the University of Tennessee literary magazine, in 1979).
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
  • The official web page
  • Some additional information provided by Science Fiction Weekly is here
• Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crud."
  • The Theodore Sturgeon FAQ entry about Sturgeon's Law
  • the "Hacker Jargon" entry for this quote.
• L. Ron and his plan to make money
  (I'm wording this carefully to avoid lots of hits of this page by people looking for the S-word.)
  • Sturgeon was one of the witnesses who heard L. Ron discussing how to make lots of money.
• Kilgore Trout and Kurt Vonnegut
  • Information about the Theodore Sturgeon/Kilgore Trout connection.
  • Direct information comes from Kurt Vonnegut himself, in an interview where he was asked about Kilgore Trout.
  • A different Vonnegut interview is posted here, with similar substance.
• Brief bit of information about Sturgeon's career, including a portion of the forward to "Godbody" (forward written by Heinlein). This was typed in by Ted Alvy, and I think this was the first page on the web having anything substantial to do with Sturgeon.
• A discussion of ethics in science fiction stories -- a number of people have mentioned stories by Sturgeon.
• Sturgeon's story "Microcosmic God" may have been the basis of part of a Simpsons episode. The 'genesis tub' episode has some similarities.

Reviews

• "Selected Stories":
  • NEW 2010: Sort of a review, but mostly a fascinating essay by Hart Williams
  • John Clute, for Salon
  • The New York Times -- you have to register to see this article.
• "More Than Human":
  • D. Davis, for Genrebusters
  • Victoria Strauss, for the SF Site
  • Norman Haase, for Reader's Robot Science Fiction
  • Elizabeth Oldfather, a tiny review.
  • D. Douglas Fratz, for Science Fiction Weekly.
• "Godbody":
  • reviewed by Eric Weeks, for the If web-zine
  • D. Davis, for Genrebusters
• "Some of Your Blood":
  • reviewed by Eric Weeks, for the If web-zine
  • D. Davis, for Genrebusters
• "Venus Plus X": reviewed by Eric Weeks, for the If web-zine
• "Dreaming Jewels": reviewed by Eric Weeks, for the If web-zine
• "To Marry Medusa":
  • D. Davis for Genrebusters
  • reviewed by Duane Swierczynski for the SF Site
  • reviewed by Eric Weeks, for the If web-zine
• "A Touch of Strange": reviewed by Serin McDaniel for Reader's Robot Science Fiction
• "E Pluribus Unicorn": reviewed by Alfvaen's Reviews
• "The Joy Machine":
  • several people have posted their opinion of this book on the web.
  • The Hub ("The Unauthorized Star Trek Review Pages")
• "Without Sorcery": reviewed by Eric Weeks, for the online magazine If
• "The Ultimate Egoist: Volume 1: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon":
  • reviewed by James Gunn for The New York Review of Science Fiction
  • reviewed by First Impressions
  • reviewed by the on-line magazine Strange Words
  • a review written in French (by Pascal J. Thomas, for Watching the Skies)
• "Microcosmic God: Volume 2: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon":
  • review by D. S. Black, for San Francisco Bay Guardian
  • review by Hart Williams, "His Vorpal Sword"
• "Killdozer: Volume 3: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon":
  • review by Science Fiction Weekly (Curt Wohleber)
  • review by Hart Williams, addressing the question of the science fiction ghetto
• The Man Who Lost the Sea, reviewed in french, for Une Autra Terre.
• Fantomes et Sortileges, reviewed in french, for Une Autra Terre.

Authors influenced by Sturgeon

• Video by Open Road Media, with several prominent authors discussing Sturgeon
• Brian Aldiss (reprinted by Strange Words)
• Paul diFilippo, who doesn't discuss Sturgeon on this page -- but Sturgeon shows up in diFilippo's short story "Alice, Alfie, Ted and the Aliens" reprinted in the anthology Lost Pages.
• James Gunn
• Jacqueline Lichtenberg discusses Sturgeon and his motto, "ask the next question."
• Spider Robinson
• S P Somtow
• Norman Spinrad
  • ...same document also here

Authors who influenced Sturgeon:

• The Garden of the Plynck -- by Karle Wilson Baker. An out-of-print book recommended by Sturgeon; see the link for details.
• Clearly Sturgeon was influenced by many other authors, I'm not going to post them all here! The Plynck is a bit of an exception since it's out of print.

Other links of possible interest

OTHER STURGEON PAGES:

• Iliad Books has made a very nice page about Sturgeon, and they sell some of his older books at good prices.
• Another enthusiastic Sturgeon page. (Devin Dukes)
• Clive England's 'The Stories of Theodore Sturgeon' is a good page. See also his reference document for the Collected Stories, with artwork and contents listings.
• Another page related to Sturgeon with links to copies of pictures from my page... naughty naughty, you didn't give me credit or more importantly credit to the photographer (Rich Buhler). (Page is partially in German.)
• The Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust: information about the new books being published by North Atlantic Books, which include some previously unpublished short stories. The TS Literary Trust are the folks who own the copyrights to Sturgeon's work. This page contains an excellent article written by Paul Williams.
• Le Cafard Cosmique ("The Cosmic Bug") is a new science fiction French web site with this page dedicated to Sturgeon. (In French.)
• Theodore Sturgeon web page, from the Slovak Republic perhaps?
• A Japanese page about Sturgeon
• Cyber Space Spinner's listing on Sturgeon -- not much information is here, yet.
• A listing of Sturgeon's books, in french. By Yvon Allard, maybe?
• Another Sturgeon page, by Arnaud Leyssens, in french.
• Another french-language Sturgeon page, I'm not sure who made this page.
• A list of all the books Sturgeon published in Sweden.
• Partial list of Sturgeon's fiction with illustrations, by Michael Main

OF MISCELLANEOUS INTEREST:

• Stories/articles submitted to the Theodore Sturgeon Page (currently, I just have one story)
• A song called "Sturgeon's Law" by David Kendall Grant, you can download it for free!
• Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List: currently "More Than Human" is #88 (8/19/03). I note that since I added this link quite a while ago, "More Than Human" has dropped in the rankings -- in the last 90's it was in the top 50. Admittedly most of the top 100 books are excellent; I'm not going to argue that "More than Human" should be #1. Go there and vote!
• Internet Book List
• Locus Poll of Deceased 20th century SF & fantasy writers who will still be read 50 years from 2001 -- Sturgeon placed 7th.
• The Horror Writers Association has a list of the top 40 horror books of all time, including Some of Your Blood.
• Science Fiction Citations for the OED -- Sturgeon contributed quite a few words.
• The Heinlein Society -- Robert A. Heinlein

SF RESOURCE PAGES / WEB SITES

• Links to web pages about many other science fiction/fantasy authors. This was the first page that linked to this page.
• SF Site -- reviews, links to pages about authors, monthly columns.
• Science Fiction Resource Guide, many many links.
• Science Fiction Resources, from CostumeSuperCenter.com; mainly links to other resource websites
• Alpha Ralpha Boulevard, author bibliographies for many authors -- see their Theodore Sturgeon Page.
• Science Fiction Weekly
• Science Fiction Crowsnest a special SF/Fantasy search engine & more. They only gave this site 3 stars out of a possible 6, how sad.
• Northwest Science Fiction Resources has various interesting links. They used to have links to authors' web pages, including this one, but they got rid of it. Oh well, they're still a nice site.
• The Ultimate SF Web Guide has many links and some information. I sent them an email to inform them that "E Waldo Hunter" was not Sturgeon's birth name...
• Steampunk, a well-organized collection of links to sf resources.

Thanks:

I have a "quotes" page, with various interesting quotes from Sturgeon. If you have any suggestions, email them to me -- right now I'm not working on this very hard, but if people send me their favorite quotes I'll take care of it much sooner.

• Eric Weeks's home page
• This page had 13080 hits from it's creation in November, 1996 through the end of the year 2000. When I was last keeping track (fall/winter of '00) it was getting about 560 hits per month. I've stopped keeping track starting '01.

• Feedback is welcome: weeks(a)physics.emory.edu