Some of Your Blood
Sturgeon is well known among readers of classic science-fiction anthologies and much respected by critics. He was listed as a primary influence of the much more famous Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. Kurt Vonnegut has stated that his character Kilgore Trout was based on Theodore Sturgeon. Tem's work includes the novels The Book of Days and Excavation, and the short story collections City Fishing and The Far Side of the Lake. His published short stories have garnered him the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. As an editor he has been nominated for the World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick Awards.