# The Perfect Host

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- Authors: [Theodore Sturgeon](https://www.bookquiver.com/theodore-sturgeon)
- Publisher: north_atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-15-5643-284-2
- Pages: 1
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The fifth of ten volumes that will reprint all Sturgeon's short fiction contains fifteen classics and two previously unpublished stories, including " Quietly." The Perfect Host provides enough of a representative sampling of Sturgeon's " greatest hits" to give the uninitiated a good sense of what all the fuss was about way back when. At the same time, it offers a generous selection of alternate takes and rarities, notably several of Sturgeon's best forays into other forms of genre writing, plus previously unreleased cuts and liner notes.