the anti-gravity machine, still on the rusted-out old truck on the nearby farm. Gerry knows of Hip's investigation and poses as a common soldier assisting Hip. When they find the truck, Gerry launches the anti-grav into space to stop Hip from retrieving it. He then mentally attacks Hip to make him look insane, driving him to a mental breakdown and amnesia. Gerry does this because Baby has told him that if the anti-grav was discovered, it would lead either to a terrible war or to the complete collapse of the world economy. Aided by Janie, Hip regains his memory, and they go to the isolated Kew house where the gestalt is now living again. Gerry attempts to attempt to attack Hip again. Instead, he finds Hip prepared for this moment, imagining in his mind a code of morality. This prompts Hip to merge as the last part of the gestalt, its conscience. As a result of this completion, the gestalt is telepathically greeted by, and welcomed into, the pre-existing community of other gestalts around the world. At the conclusion Gerry: He saw himself as an atom and his gestalt as a molecule. He saw these others as a cell among cells, and he saw in the whole the design of what, with joy, humanity would become.He felt a rising, choking sense of worship, and recognized it for what it has always been for mankind ― self-respect. Reception New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson placed the novel among its year's best, praising it for "a poetic, moving prose and a deeply examined raison d'etre." Groff Conklin described More Than Human as "a masterpiece of invention... written in an unmannered prose that still has a poetic, panchromatic individuality." Boucher and McComas praised it for "its crystal-clear prose, its intense human warmth and its depth of psychological probing" as well as its "adroit plotting and ceaseless surge of action," finding it "one of the most impressive proofs yet of the possibility of science fiction as a part of mainstream literature." P. Schuyler Miller praised the novel as among the year's best, saying that Sturgeon "has Bradbury's poetry and style without ever running thin." Writing in the Hartford Courant, reviewer R. W. Wallace praised More Than Human, saying "In its psychological wisdom and its deep humanity this novel is one of the finest achievements of science fiction." In his "Books" column for F&SF, Damon