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Sturgeon Is Alive and Well . . . By Theodore Sturgeon

Putnam, 221 pp., $4.95 There is a Norn who comes among us two or three times a generation, stands a while over a cradle, and cuts a rune which says this child shall be a writer. The rest have to make do with talent, skill or luck.