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Victor of the Hugo, Nebula and World Dream Life Achievement Honours
"Among the experts of modern science fiction." The Washington Post Publication World
Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs abroad and joins a carnival. Performing alongside the fire-eaters, snakemen and "little people," Horty is accepted. But he is not safe. For when he manages to lose three fingers in an accident plus they grow back again, it becomes clear that Horty is not like other boys. Which is a difference some people might want to use.
But his difference dangers not only his own life but the lives of the outcasts who provided for him, for so many years, with a spot to call home. In The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon makes the multiple wounds of loneliness, dread, and persecution with uncanny precision. Vividly attracted, expertly plotted, The Dreaming Jewels is a Sturgeon masterpiece.
"An intensely written book and incredibly moving book of love and retribution."Washington Star
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