Baby Is Three

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name = Baby is Three
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author = Theodore Sturgeon
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction short story
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pub_date = 1950
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followed_by = "Baby Is Three" is a science fiction short story by Theodore Sturgeon. It was later crafted into a full novel "More Than Human".

Plot introduction

The story describes the creation and "bleshing" of a new life form, Homo Gestalt, on Earth. It is formed by the symbiosis of 4 or more humans with paranormal abilities. One person is the "brains" of the organism who assembles and directs the various parts through telepathy, another is the "hands" of the organism, able to move and change physical objects with telekinesis, the third and forth persons are a pair of twins able to teleport invisibly at will, and the fifth person of the organism is a silent Down Syndrome baby with a brain like a computer. "Bleshing" is how the organism describes its own completeness and functionality. The plot follows the psychiatric evaluation of an fifteen-year-old boy named Gerry, who believes he has murdered his caregiver Miss Kew for endangering the "bleshing" of his new organism.