Readercon 2010: "The Short Fiction of Theodore Sturgeon" - Part 1

On Sunday, July 11, 2010, Samuel R. Delany, Paul Di Filippo, Barry Malzberg, Noël Sturgeon, and Diane Weinstein appeared on the panel "From Microcosmic God to Slow Sculpture: The Short Fiction of Theodore Sturgeon."

Here's how the panel was described in the program book:

This September will mark the publication of Case and the Dreamer, the thirteenth and final volume of the collected and complete short stories of Theodore Sturgeon, edited by Paul Williams. We'll look at the evolution of Sturgeon's writing—a career that spanned five decades and 175 stories—and examine the influence that Readercon's first official Memorial Guest of Honor had on the field.

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Entertainment

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• Barry Malzberg
• Samuel R. Delany
• Paul Di Filippo
• Theodore Sturgeon
• Readercon

[DarkEmergence]

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[NodrogTrax]

Thanks a great deal for uploading this. I read a lot of classic literature, and among all the authors I have experienced, Sturgeon is as vivd and profound as any of the best. This is very compelling discussion. The idea of such a serious and genuinely interested panel talking about an obscure artist who worked in a chronically ghettoized genre is really encouraging to me. I take science fiction very seriously, and I consider it entirely valid as serious literature.