There's a thirteen-volume complete edition of his short stories (his estate did something similar for his letters -- Philip K. Dick got the same treatment in multivolumes).
My family actually owns the complete set of Sturgeon; they are technically split between my father and me. I agree on their frequent anthologization and importance to the field (I don't think "The World Well Lost" is actually the first positive portrayal of homosexuality in genre fiction, but in 1953 and published by Universe there's a really good chance it's the first one most readers ran into), but I haven't seen them studied as much as the novels. This may be an inaccurate side effect of criticism tending to focus on novels over short fiction or the criticism I happen to have read.
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Date: 2017-03-14 11:51 pm (UTC)My family actually owns the complete set of Sturgeon; they are technically split between my father and me. I agree on their frequent anthologization and importance to the field (I don't think "The World Well Lost" is actually the first positive portrayal of homosexuality in genre fiction, but in 1953 and published by Universe there's a really good chance it's the first one most readers ran into), but I haven't seen them studied as much as the novels. This may be an inaccurate side effect of criticism tending to focus on novels over short fiction or the criticism I happen to have read.