Apr 242010
I once owned a book called Almost Human. It was a science fiction book about children that were engineered by aliens to survive the changes that earth was about to endure. These children would be able to bear children of their own that were genetically able to survive better on earth. The aliens I believe were called the Pribar. Can anyone tell me who wrote this and where I can get it?
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon?
(This was the first sci-fi book I read and I still think it’s the best)
GREAT WRITING
Sturgeon was a thinker with a tremendous imagination. I caught myself grinning often at several of his lines, at how he avoided clichés and gave fresh ideas to simple scenes and concepts. In the first section, “The Idiot,” I was reminded of the opening of Faulkner’s `The Sound and the Fury.’ (Yes, comparing Sturgeon to Faulkner is NOT a stretch!) The way Sturgeon gets inside Lone’s head and lives there is amazing. Wonderful writing that still reads with freshness 50 years later.
GREAT IDEAS
Six misfit outcasts, each with a unique gift, form a new step in man’s evolution, a gestalt of unbelievable power. I won’t go into the social, political, and moral implications of such an idea (Read the book), but the concept by itself is interesting. What Sturgeon does with it is fascinating.
Not positive but there are a few on eBay maybe you could tell if it’s the correct one bc they have photos of the cover of the book