More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeon · 1953
Six broken, marginal people discover they can combine into a single gestalt consciousness, a new species. Sturgeon's 1953 novel is about loneliness, belonging, and what it might mean to be more than the sum of damaged parts.
The case against
Built outward from a magazine novella ('Baby Is Three'), with two sections written to flank it, and the joins show: the psychoanalytic middle is the real book, the finale resolves everything with what amounts to a lecture on ethics. Sturgeon's 1953 furniture (the 'idiot' savant, the therapy-couch framing, the way it writes women) has aged the way furniture does.
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