If you have ever been lonely and longed for completion, you will be drawn to this book. Theodore Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with suspense, pathos, and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction. For as the protagonists of More Than Human struggle to find who they are and whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it. In this genre-bending novel - among the first to have launched scifi into the arena of literature - one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a story as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger's soul. Together, they compose a single organism that may represent the next step in evolution, and the final chapter in the history of the human race.
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. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him.
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