Bargain @ $1.99 in the US for today only (March 23rd) from Open Road Media as one of their daily newsletter specials (couponable/VIP-eligible @ Kobo, price-matched at all the usual retailers):
Selected Stories by the late Theodore Sturgeon (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), a collection of his vintage science fiction tales assembled in 2000 by Random House's Vintage Books imprint, but consisting mainly of shorts from the 1940s-50s, according to ISFDB, which also mentions that it placed 17th for Best Collection in the Locus Awards.
Depending what your budget is like, it may actually work out cheaper to slowly invest in the 13 volumes of
The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon series from North Atlantic Books, which are couponable @ Kobo CA (but apparently not the US), but this seems a pretty good price as an introduction to his earlier work if you're not already familiar with it.
One of science fiction’s most beloved trailblazers, Hugo and Nebula–Award winning author Theodore Sturgeon wrote novels and short fiction that inspired and amazed readers and critics alike.
In Selected Stories, thirteen of Sturgeon’s very best tales have been gathered into one collection: Here are stories of love and darkness, transcendence and obsession, alien contact and human interaction. In the devastating wake of a nuclear holocaust, an actress performs her swan song before a small audience of survivors. A machine is possessed and intent upon destruction. Humankind’s place in the vast cosmos is explored, as is the strange humanity of evil. In the author’s acclaimed story “The Man Who Lost the Sea,” a life is reconstructed in bizarre shattered fragments. And in “Slow Sculpture,” Sturgeon’s award-winning classic, a breast cancer patient surrenders to a healer’s most unorthodox methods. Lyrical, often witty, frequently provocative, and always surprising, Selected Stories covers a wide range of human and inhuman emotion and experience, deftly traversing the borders between science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Theodore Sturgeon including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library and the author’s estate, among other sources.