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The synthetic man / Theodore Sturgeon.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Sturgeon, T.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sturgeon, Theodore, author.
- Series:
- Pyramid books ; R-1126.
- Pyramid books ; R-1126
- Standardized Title:
- Dreaming jewels
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Runaway children--Fiction.
- Runaway children.
- Circus--Fiction.
- Circus.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (autograph) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 174 pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- Third printing.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pyramid Books, [1965]
- Summary:
- Eight-year-old Horty Bluett runs away from home and joins a traveling circus where he discovers that he must stop a plot by the circus owner to destroy mankind using a crystalline extraterrestrial life form he has discovered.
- Notes:
- Originally issued under the title; "The dreaming jewels."
- "Third printing, January 1965," with cover art by John Schoenherr.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- OCLC:
- 36894417
- Publisher Number:
- R-1126 Pyramid Books
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