(1950 to 1952) Volume VII – A Saucer of Loneliness (1953) Volume VIII – Bright Segment (1953 to 1955, as well as two "lost" stories from 1946) Volume IX – And Now the News... (1955 to 1957) Volume X – The Man Who Lost the Sea (1957 to 1960) Volume XI – The Nail and the Oracle (1961 to 1969) Volume XII – Slow Sculpture (1970 to 1972, plus one 1954 novella and one unpublished story) Volume XIII – Case and The Dreamer (1972 to 1983, plus one 1960 story and three unpublished stories) Representative short stories Sturgeon was best known for his short stories and novellas. The best-known include: "Ether Breather" (September 1939, his first published science-fiction story) "Derm Fool" (March 1940) "It" (August 1940) "Shottle Bop" (February 1941) "Microcosmic God" (April 1941) "Yesterday Was Monday" (1941) "Killdozer!" (November, 1944) "Maturity" (February, 1947) "Bianca's Hands" (May, 1947) "Thunder and Roses" (November 1947) "The Perfect Host" (November 1948) "It Wasn't Syzygy" (January 1948) "Minority Report" (June 1949, no connection to the 2002 movie, which was based on a later story by Philip K. Dick) "One Foot and the Grave" (September 1949) "Baby Is Three" (October 1952) "A Saucer of Loneliness" (February 1953) "The World Well Lost" (June 1953) "Mr. Costello, Hero" (December 1953) "The [Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff" (1955) "The Skills of Xanadu" (July 1956) "The Other Man" (September 1956) "And Now The News" (December 1956) "The Girl Had Guts" (January 1957) "The Man Who Lost the Sea" (October 1959) "Need" (1960) "How to Forget Baseball" (Sports Illustrated, December 1964) "The Nail and the Oracle" (Playboy, October 1964) "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" (1967, Dangerous Visions anthology edited by Harlan Ellison)—Nebula Award 1967 Nominee Novella "The Man Who Learned Loving"—Nebula Award 1969 Nominee Short Story "Slow Sculpture" (Galaxy, February 1970) — winner of a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award "Occam's Scalpel" (August, 1971, with an introduction by Terry Carr) "Vengeance Is." (1980, Dark Forces anthology edited by Kirby McCauley) Autobiography Argyll: A Memoir, (pamphlet, Sturgeon Project, 1993) an autobiographical sketch about Sturgeon's relationship with his stepfather. Introduction by his editor Paul Williams. Afterword by Samuel R. Delany. Cover art by Donna Nassar. The memoir, written for his psychotherapist, has many suggestions about his life, starting from his family's move from Staten Island to Philadelphia when his stepfather got a job at