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Dreaming Jewels (Corgi SF collector's library) Book
Theodore Sturgeon was among SF's greatest short story writers. The Dreaming Jewels (1950) is his first novel, updating the evergreen theme of a boy who escapes cruel step-parents to join a travelling carnival. Villainous carnival owner "Maneater" Monetre's star attractions are his "Strange People"--in cruder days, the freaks. Without preaching, Sturgeon shows these as loveable and very human. Beautiful Zelda and her fellow midgets shelter the fleeing, maimed boy Horty and disguise him as one of themselves. Solum the Alligator-Skinned Man, "ugliest human in captivity", is a sensitive soul with exquisite handwriting. There are more. The Maneater himself, a failed scientist who hates humanity, has learned that many Strange People owe their existence to sentient but unfathomable alien … read more...
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