![]() ![]() The world described by the author is at best indifferent, devoid of empathy, but is often cruel. Often Theodore Sturgeon used in his stories characters that are marginalized and in “More Than Human” the protagonists are somehow outcasts. Theodore Sturgeon first published the central story, “Baby is Three”, in 1952 and later expanded it and wrote what became the other two parts, “The Fabulous Idiot” and “Morality”, to form the novel. The idiot returns to the Prodds and discovers that the son they had suffers from Down syndrome, yet he has superhuman mental abilities that make him become the mind of a gestalt. The meeting with Janie, a telekinetic child, and with the twins Bonnie and Beanie, capable of teleporting, starts a sort of symbiosis. Prodd gets pregnant and the idiot leaves the couple to return to live on his own. The idiot gets rescued by the Prodds, a farming couple who takes care of him and somehow adopts him.Īfter some years, Mrs. Unfortunately, the girl’s insane father attacks the idiot seriously injuring him and, when Evelyn tries to stop him, he mortally wounds her. The idiot’s life has always been lonely, but when by chance he meets Evelyn Kew a mental contact between the two of them creates a human contact as neither of them had ever experienced. ![]() It’s the result of the union of a novella previously written with two other parts written specifically to obtain the novel. The novel “More Than Human” by Theodore Sturgeon was published for the first time in 1953. ![]() More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon (Italian edition) ![]()
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