![]() ![]() ![]() Unless they can come to terms with their unlimited powers and live peaceably among other humans, their existence may overwhelm all of humanity. ![]() Also a very confrontational style of therapy). Their symbiosis results in the next step of human evolution as they become homo Gestalt(German term for "the whole is more than the sum of its parts". His cave becomes a haven for a group of children who also have paranormal powers (telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, and telecognition-not a real word, but it will suffice) and they combine their powers to survive and live as one unit. After a tragic loss, and through a series of interactions with a simple couple who take him in, he learns to speak and work, and builds a little shelter for himself in the woods. Too savage to beg or steal, his telepathic abilities aid his survival by beckoning strangers to feed him. Lone is a homeless indigent, a feral man who lives in the woods. Instead, Sturgeon gives us something even more quintessentially fifties– an exploration of the paranormal mental powers of humanity. Perhaps something similar to its infamously terrible contemporary, the 1954 Hugo winner They'd Rather Be Right, in which people become perfect after interface with a machine. Between the cover art and the title, Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Humanmight first appear to be about cybernetic- or genetically-enhanced human potential, in which the main character, maybe an athlete, is endowed by science to be stronger and smarter than the rest of humanity. ![]()
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