Vintage packaged them in attractive trade paperbacks that could appeal to both mainstream literary and genre audiences. It must have been a success, because the publisher eventually released the larger portion of Dick's prodigious output in these new uniform editions, then turned its attention to other classic authors whose ghettoization as science fiction writers had prevented their work from reaching a larger audience. And, most recently, Theodore Sturgeon.
Sturgeon is a legendary figure in science fiction.
Sturgeon's own writing life was punctuated by debilitating bouts of writer's block. Nevertheless, before his death in 1985, he had written a half-dozen novels and enough short fiction to fill up ten large volumes. His most famous work is the mosaic novel More Than Human , but if Sturgeon is remembered fondly by science fiction cognoscenti it is more than anything for his rich legacy of short fiction. Before putting together Selected Stories , Vintage released the bulk of Sturgeon's novels. However, a few years earlier, in 1994, North Atlantic Books began an ambitious 10-volume publishing project that would eventually put into print, in chronological order, all of Sturgeon's short fiction.