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Born this day: 02/26/1918 (d. 05/08/1985)
Theodore Sturgeon was a Golden Age SF master whose novel More Than Human, about misfit children merging into a telepathic gestalt, won the International Fantasy Award. "Slow Sculpture" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He coined Sturgeon's Law and inspired Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout.