Dreaming Jewels (22 page)

Sturgeon in his library.

The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award trophy, designed by Elden Tefft. The Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas presents the award annually for the genre’s best short stories of the year. (Photo courtesy of the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.)

From left to right, author N. K. Jemisin; Noël Sturgeon, Theodore’s daughter and trustee of the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust; and author Samuel R. Delany at a May 4, 2011, tribute to Sturgeon, sponsored by the
New York Review of Science Fiction.
(Photo courtesy of Marc Blackman.)

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