third written around Baby Is Three (Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1952) The Cosmic Rape (1958) A shorter version was published as To Marry Medusa Venus Plus X (1960) Some of Your Blood (1961) Godbody (1986) Published posthumously Novelizations Sturgeon, under his own name, was hired to write novelizations of the following movies based on their scripts (links go to articles about the movies): The King and Four Queens (1956) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) The book is described in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel). The Rare Breed (1966) Pseudonymous novels I, Libertine (1956): Historical novel created as a for-hire hoax. Credited to "Frederick R. Ewing", written from a premise by Jean Shepherd. The Player on The Other Side (1963): Mystery novel credited to Ellery Queen and ghost-written with Queen's assistance and supervision. Short stories Sturgeon published numerous short story collections during his lifetime, many drawing on his most prolific writing years of the 1940s and 1950s. Note that some reprints of these titles (especially paperback editions) may cut one or two stories from the line-up. Statistics herein refer to the original editions only. Collections published during Sturgeon's lifetime The following table includes sixteen volumes (one of them collecting western stories). These are considered "original" collections of Sturgeon material, in that they compiled previously uncollected stories. However, some volumes did contain a few reprinted stories: this list includes books that collected only previously uncollected material, as well as those volumes that collected mostly new material, but also contained up to three stories (representing no more than half the book) that were previously published in a Sturgeon collection. The following six collections consisted entirely of reprints of previously collected material: Complete short stories North Atlantic Books released the chronologically assembled The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, edited by Paul Williams. The series consisted of 13 volumes published between 1994 and 2010. Introductions were provided by Harlan Ellison, Samuel R. Delany, Kurt Vonnegut, Gene Wolfe, Connie Willis, Jonathan Lethem, and others. Extensive story notes were provided by Paul Williams and, in the last two volumes, Sturgeon's daughter Noël. Volume I – The Ultimate Egoist (1937 to 1940) Volume II – Microcosmic God (1940 to 1941) Volume III – Killdozer (1941 to 1946) Volume IV – Thunder and Roses (1946 to 1948) Volume V – The Perfect Host (1948 to 1950) Volume VI – Baby is Three