Show More like-"minded" crystal, and crystal nature being what it is, they procreate or invade a living creature and "enhance" it. "An intensely written novel and very moving novel of love and retribution."- Washington Star … ( more) Vividly drawn, expertly plotted, The Dreaming Jewels is a Sturgeon masterpiece. In The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon renders the multiple wounds of loneliness, fear, and persecution with uncanny precision. But his difference risks not only his own life but the lives of the outcasts who provided for him, for so many years, with a place to call home. And it is a difference some people might want to use. For when he loses three fingers in an accident and they grow back, it becomes clear that Horty is not like other boys. Performing alongside the fireaters, snakemen and "little people," Horty is accepted. So he runs away from home and joins a carnival. His adoptive parents are violent his classmates are cruel. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards "One of the masters of modern science fiction."- The Washington Post Book World Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love.
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