To Marry Medusa Contributor(s): Sturgeon, Theodore (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375703721 ISBN-13: 9780375703720 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 98031425 |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.21" W x 8.01" (0.39 lbs) 160 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "A master storyteller certain to fascinate."--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Up until one minute ago, Gurlick was merely a specimen of Homo sapiens, and a substandard specimen at that. But now this craven, seething, barely literate drunk has ingested a spore that traveled light years before touching down on our planet. A spore that has in turn ingested Gurlick--turned him into a host for the Medusa, a hive mind so vast that it encompasses the life forms of a billion planets. A hive mind that is determined to ingest Earth as well. In this mind-wrenching classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novelist Theodore Sturgeon places humanity on a collision course with an organism of unimaginable power and malevolence and reminds us how much we depend on each other, or even on a wretch like Gurlick. Crackling with suspense, overflowing with invention, and startling in its compassion, To Marry Medusa is a tour de force from one of the great imaginers of the golden age of speculative fiction. |