Cheap Truth Special
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Cheap Truth
· 25 Apr 2019
$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$ CHEAP TRUTH Special Unnumbered Edition $0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0 STURGEON: MERCURY PLUS X Sturgeon? The name was magnetic. There it was, perpetually cropping up attached to the stories I most admired. Sturgeon: quite an ordinary Anglo-American word among exotics like A. E. Van Vogt, Isaac Asimov, Heinlein, Simak, and Kuttner. Yet - spikey, finny, ODD. And it was not his original name. Theodore Hamilton Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo. To the usual boring undeserving parents. That was on Staten Island, the year the first World War ended. So there were two of him, as there are...