<p>Up until one minute ago Gurlick was merely a specimen of <em>homo sapiens</em> and a substandard specimen at that. But now this craven seething barely literate drunk has ingested a spore that traveled light-years before touching down on our planet a spore that has in turn ingested Gurlick turning him into a host for the Medusa a hive mind so vast that it encompasses the life forms of a billion planets—a hive mind that is determined to ingest Earth as well.</p> <p>In this mind-wrenching classic of science fiction visionary novelist Theodore Sturgeon places humanity on a collision course with an organism of unimaginable power and malevolence and reminds us how much we depend on each other—or even on a wretch like Gurlick.</p> <p>Crackling with suspense overflowing with invention and startling in its compassion <em>To Marry Medusa</em> is a tour de force from one of the great imaginers of the golden age of speculative fiction.</p>