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er galaxy, or under the sea, but right here and now on Earth, coexisting with us under our very noses. Only one human has an inkling of this, and even he doesn't realize at first the full measure of what he had discovered. This man is a brilliant but mentally unbalanced ex-doctor, Pierre Monetre, who now runs a carnival, the perfect front for his experiments. What a field day Sturgeon has with this carnival. It is a perfect setting for the kind of writing he does the best. He has filled it with the half-made, the unmade, the freakish, the grotesque, the beautiful and many more—all the evil fruit of Monetre's investigations, animated by the strangeness of soul which is such a part and parcel of Sturgeon's style.

This is fantasy and mystery joined together and brought to glowing life by the warmth which Sturgeon's writing can have at its finest—when his technique and his ideas are in complete sympathy with each other.

This reviewer was extremely critical of Sturgeon's last paperback, Not Without Sorcery, an anthology of those of his first published efforts which had not been reprinted since. The Synthetic Man is so strange a work, however, that it has completely wiped out that recent 'faux pas," and given him plenty of credit.