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From the inside dust jacket cover: "A mob of invisible stowaways making mischief on a World War I freighter, a telepathic man communicating with his unconscious child, a team of astronauts on a mission to a planet that drives men mad...these are the stuff of Sturgeon's stories.
Written between 1939 and 1955, the (14) short stories chosen for ALIEN CARGO represent Sturgeon's finest early work.
'IT', a tale of consummate horror tht Sturgeon says wrote itself...
'POKERFACE', which features a visitor from a future time who gets more than he bargains for in the present.
'BRIGHT SEGMENT', a tale of an isolated inarticulate handyman, the woman who suddenly enters his life, and what he must do to keep her.
'SHADOW, SHADOW ON THE WALL', which delves into a boy's imagination, his shadow pictures, and the things beyond the walls of our homes-and the walls of our minds.
'THE TRAVELING CRAG', wherein a writer, with a little help from his friends of this world and elsewhere, changes his writing and the world."
Written between 1939 and 1955, the (14) short stories chosen for ALIEN CARGO represent Sturgeon's finest early work.
'IT', a tale of consummate horror tht Sturgeon says wrote itself...
'POKERFACE', which features a visitor from a future time who gets more than he bargains for in the present.
'BRIGHT SEGMENT', a tale of an isolated inarticulate handyman, the woman who suddenly enters his life, and what he must do to keep her.
'SHADOW, SHADOW ON THE WALL', which delves into a boy's imagination, his shadow pictures, and the things beyond the walls of our homes-and the walls of our minds.
'THE TRAVELING CRAG', wherein a writer, with a little help from his friends of this world and elsewhere, changes his writing and the world."
