Without Sorcery

Without Sorcery

Infobox Book
name = Without Sorcery
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Theodore Sturgeon
illustrator = L. Robert Tschirky
cover_artist = L. Robert Tschirky
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction and fantasy short stories
publisher = Prime Press
release_date = 1948
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 355 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 5147779
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"Without Sorcery" is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by author Theodore Sturgeon. The collection was first published in 1948 by Prime Press in an edition of 2,862 copies of which 80 were specially bound, slipcased and signed by the author and artist. The stories first appeared in the magazines "Astounding" and "Unknown".

Contents


* Introduction, by Ray Bradbury
* "The Ultimate Egoist"
* "It"
* "Poker Face"
* "Shottle Bop"
* "Artnan Process"
* "Memorial"
* "Ether Breather"
* "Butyl and the Breather"
* "Brat"
* "Two Percent Inspiration"
* "Cargo"
* "Maturity"
* "Microcosmic God"

Publication history

*1948, USA, Prime Press OCLC|5147779, Pub date 1948, Hardback
*1961, USA, Ballantine Books OCLC|2235821, Pub date 1961, Paperback as "Not Without Sorcery", omits 5 stories

It!

To promote "Without Sorcery", Prime Press published the story "It" in advance of the full collection. The book was published in paperback in an edition of 200 copies OCLC|19372331. 50 copies were given away at the Associated Fantasy Publishers party at the 6th World Science Fiction Convention and most were signed by Sturgeon. Few of the remaining copies were sold and the remainder are assumed destroyed.

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=531 | date=1998
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title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
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*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=414 | date=1978|id=ISBN 0-911682-22-8


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