More Than Human

I first read this book in college. I picked it up at a supermarket in their paperback section. I thought it was brilliant. After rereading nearly fifty years later, I still find it brilliant, but it wasn't as earth-shattering. Perhaps it's because it was a reread, or perhaps I've been exposed to so much science fiction since then. I love the basic theme of the next step in human evolution being communal and psychic. However, I found some of the delivery tough to follow. And of course, this being from the early fifties, it has some cringy stereotypical male/female behaviors. Overall, though, I thought the inclusion of girls and boys, white and black persons, and the sentiment against inequality was great. At a time when sci fi was read mostly by white boys and men, Sturgeon made a concerted effort to reach beyond that demographic. This book came out in 1953, and it won a 2004 retro Hugo.