First published in 1953, this most celebrated of Theodore Sturgeon’s works won the International Fantasy Award, and rightly so. It’s a true masterpiece of provocative storytelling.
A group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover their combined powers renders them superhuman.
The novel opens with a self-described and self-acknowledged idiot living the only life he has ever known, one of utter loneliness and nothingness. His one gift is an ability to make people do things for him by looking at them in a certain way.
Elsewhere, a young girl lives a life of unhappiness but she, too, has her own special gift, the ability to move things with her mind.
A pair of small children disappear and reappear at will.
Taken together, they are one person.
This is thought-provoking science fiction at its best.