Theodore Sturgeon was a brilliant author. Although his writing has largely been classed as science fiction, his writing has a literary depth rarely seen in the Genre. Despite such seminal novels as Venus Plus X and The Dreaming Jewels, and a pile of incredible short stories, he is rarely seen on bookstore shelves today. Despite strikingly different personal and political beliefs, he was a close friend of Robert A. Heinlein. He also made a famous remark now known as Sturgeon's Law.