| eBook | The Man Who Lost the Sea |
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| Publication | 09 October 2025 |
| Awards | Hugo Award Best Short Story (1960) |
The man who lost the sear release date 5 stars for this classic 1959 Hugo nominated SF story by the great Theodore Sturgeon free online at Strange Horizons Review first posted at Fantasy Literature A boy running through cold sand with a toy helicopter in his hand encounters a man who is buried in the sand wearing a pressure suit They talk briefly the grumpy and sick man sends the boy away The man hears the pounding of the surf and sees the dark sea within himself he feels a matching wave of nausea approaching and fights it off with an undertow of weakness Out and out the sick man forces his view etching all he sees with a meticulous intensity as if it might be his charge one day to duplicate all this To his left is only starlit sea windless In front of him across the valley rounded hills with dim white epaulettes of light To his right the jutting corner of the black wall against which his helmet rests He thinks the distant moundings of nausea becalmed but he will not look yet As the dreamlike story continues the boy returns a couple times with increasingly sophisticated toys while the buried man recalls significant events in his past and somewhat hazily contemplates the scenery around him and a satellite moving across the sky The Man Who Lost the Sea is a story with a twist and it hides the ball from the reader until the last few paragraphs Initially that opacity made this a rather frustrating story to read although it is beautifully written with striking phrases like this baby moon eats up its slice of shadowpie that captured my attention After grappling with it and putting the pieces together I decided to give it a second read it s a fairly short story Without the vexing confusion that accompanied my first read I could appreciate the clues that Sturgeon gave to the true nature of plot and setting as well as the beauty and the deeper meaning underlying this bittersweet but strangely triumphant tale I strongly recommend reading this story and doing it twice The Man Who Lost the Sea The Man Who Lost the SeaTo his left is only starlit sea windless In front of him across the valley rounded hills with dim white epaulettes of light To his right the jutting corner of the black wall against which his helmet rests He thinks the distant moundings of nausea becalmed but will not look back yet So he scans the sky black and bright calling Sirius calling Pleiades Polaris Ursa Minor calling thatthatWhy it moves It is a fleck of light seeming to be wrinkled fissured rather like a chip of boiled cauliflower in the sky. The man who lost the sea fantasy series There are few craftmasters whose voice allows them to make the process of proprioception explicit and unequivocal while inducing in the reader an actual memory of sea sickness and still reinforcing the Otherness of a science fictional setting How Boiled cauliflower like light Anyone who s been up high enough to see Earth s many satellites stochastically changing albedo will recognize how exactly that description fits And in October 1959 when this story came out Sturgeon was far from alone in having viewed Sputnik madly dawning a little north of west Earth s very first artificial moon in its very low very visible orbit. Who stole the water in lost but where is he The finely trained brain of a man with a scientific education has not been taxed by the man s odd unchanging position or his echoing breaths He s noted the winking vegetal floret of light in the sky has a strangely long perioda matter of almost eight hoursderived from his observations of its parallax And the he thinks the he remembers the glorious moment whenwhat What memories is he reliving The moment when he damn near killed himself through a combination of pride and hubris while diving a tropical reef That moment half formed manchild became the man whois herebut where is here What is here What has happened I won t spoil the ending It s a nine page read and well worth your eyeblinks The title is a link to a free online read I definitely think you should devote a bit of time to celebrating science The Man Who Lost the Sea ooof wow The Man Who Lost the Sea This was really good The way this story engages with psychology and builds up slowly to that final reveal excellent Thank you Gabi for getting me interested in this The Man Who Lost the Sea
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The Man Who Lost the SeaNot bad It was kind of obvious but crafted well Free online Three solid stars The Man Who Lost the Sea 4