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Sturgeon’s first novel, The Dreaming Jewels, embodies his peculiar combination of directness and artfulness. It follows Horton (‘‘Horty’’) Bluett, a young orphan adopted by a callous politician. After Horty commits a trifling infraction at school, his adoptive father beats him and Horty runs away. Soon enough, he falls in with the denizens of a traveling carnival, who provide him with a kind of home. The fantastic element is provided by a toy he takes with him, ‘‘Junky,’’ whose crystal eyes seem to carry some sort of supernatural power. The novel explores the nature of that power, and what it might be worth for people who want to exploit it.

This is an abiding theme for Sturgeon: someone rejected – or at least not conventionally understood – by society has out of their loneliness created or discovered something of immense value. The question that arises then is how to use it ethically. That’s certainly where The Dreaming Jewels ends up, but the material that sticks in the memory is from earlier in the book, from its acute and intense rendering of Horty’s aloneness. Here’s a section from the first chapter, where he’s on the point of running away from his monstrous adoptive father Armand:

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