by Theodore Sturgeon
$14.00
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage Books Ed edition (December 29, 1998)
ISBN-10: 0375703713
ISBN-13: 978-0375703713
Personal Note: I found the book a difficult read, one that I just had no interest in finishing; therefore the annotation and summary presented here are from other sources (as noted).
Annotation/Flashtalk: A group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover their combined powers renders them superhuman. (Amazon.com)
Summary:
Homo Gestalt
How does a superman act? what does he do with his superhuman powers? Divided into three sections, this novel examines the growth of seven people who make up the organism which is to be man's successor -- Homo Gestalt. A telepathic idiot is its head -- and give way to a ruthless, unmoral boy; a telekinetic girl is its translator, nerve centers and torso; a Mongoloid idiot baby, its computer and brain; two colored girls, teleports, are its arms and legs; and a maturing soldier-engineer, its conscience. Their adventures, their growing realization of their power and its responsibilities, aided by a poetic moving prose and a deeply examined raison d'etre, make this, with "the Demolished Man," and "The Space Merchants" one of the best science fiction novels of the year.
(From the November 22, 1953 New York Times review by Villers Gerson in the Spaceman's Realm column, p.34)
Genre/Subgenre: Science Fiction/Classic
Evaluation: 1-star
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