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ETHER BREATHER Astounding Science Fiction, September by Theodore Sturgeon (1918— ) Until the early seventies, Theodore Sturgeon (Edward H. Waldo) was the most reprinted writer in the science fiction universe. This was a richly deserved honor, for he produced a long line of outstanding, well-crafted stories featuring memorable Working within the fantasy and science fiction genres, he excelled at both, and influenced entire generation of writers, includ-ing Ray Bradbury. Here is his first published story—one that exhib-its all of the talent he would develop nurture in succeeding years. (Good Heavens! Ive known Ted Sturgeon for forty years and never knew till now that wasnt his real name. Are you sure, Marty? Anyway, an editor said to me once, If you had publish a collection of stories by Theodore Sturgeon, what would you call it? I thought while and said, Caviar! The editor said triumphantly to someone else who was in the See!!! and that was indeed the name of the collection. IA) Yes, Isaac, Im sure. He legally changed his name to Sturgeon when his mother remarried. It was The Seashell. It would have to be The Seashell. I wrote it first as a short story, was turned down. Then I made a novelette nut of if and then a novel. Then a short short. three-line gag. And it still wouldnt sell. It got to be a fetish with me, rewriting that Seashell. a while editors got so used to it that they turned it down on sight. I had enough rejection from that number alone to paper every room in the house of tomorrow. So when it was like the death of a friend. It hit me. I hated to see it go. It was a play by that time, but I hadnt changed it much. Still the same pastel, froo-froo Seashell story, about two children who grew up and met each other only three times as the