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FROM: "Georgine Olson" <[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 2:39 PM

A member of our Fantasy / Science Fiction Discussion Group is trying to hunt
down the title (and author) of this short story:

Science fiction story, think it was written by Ted (Theodore) Sturgeon (if
not him, probably from same vintage). Main "character" is a full-sized
bonsai tree being sculpted. There's a woman in the story who has cancer. The
relationship between the two has something to do with the idea that it isn't
the most perfect tree that makes the best bonsai, but the one with the flaw,
much like the woman 'flawed' by the cancer.

Thanks for whatever help the collective mind can give......

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

FROM: "Georgine Olson" <[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 2:41 PM

A member of our Fantasy / Science Fiction Discussion Group is trying to hunt
down the title (and author) of this short story:

Science fiction story, think it was written by Ted (Theodore) Sturgeon (if
not him, probably from same vintage). Main "character" is a full-sized
bonsai tree being sculpted. There's a woman in the story who has cancer. The
relationship between the two has something to do with the idea that it isn't
the most perfect tree that makes the best bonsai, but the one with the flaw,
much like the woman 'flawed' by the cancer.

Thanks for whatever help the collective mind can give......

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

FROM: "Georgine Olson" <[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 2:41 PM

A member of our Fantasy / Science Fiction Discussion Group is trying to hunt
down the title (and author) of this short story:

Science fiction story, think it was written by Ted (Theodore) Sturgeon (if
not him, probably from same vintage). Main "character" is a full-sized
bonsai tree being sculpted. There's a woman in the story who has cancer. The
relationship between the two has something to do with the idea that it isn't
the most perfect tree that makes the best bonsai, but the one with the flaw,
much like the woman 'flawed' by the cancer.

Thanks for whatever help the collective mind can give......

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

FROM: "Georgine Olson" <[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 2:42 PM

A member of our Fantasy / Science Fiction Discussion Group is trying to hunt
down the title (and author) of this short story:

Science fiction story, think it was written by Ted (Theodore) Sturgeon (if
not him, probably from same vintage). Main "character" is a full-sized
bonsai tree being sculpted. There's a woman in the story who has cancer. The
relationship between the two has something to do with the idea that it isn't
the most perfect tree that makes the best bonsai, but the one with the flaw,
much like the woman 'flawed' by the cancer.

Thanks for whatever help the collective mind can give......

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

FROM: "Roberta Johnson" <[removed]@dppl.org>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 2:57 PM

Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon fits the bill, I think. I remember the question of "whether the man or the tree was being sculpted."

Roberta S. Johnson
Readers' Services Librarian
Des Plaines Public Library
1501 Ellinwood St. Des Plaines, IL 60016
www.dppl.org [removed]@dppl.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Georgine Olson [[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:30 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: SF short story stumper

A member of our Fantasy / Science Fiction Discussion Group is trying to hunt
down the title (and author) of this short story:

Science fiction story, think it was written by Ted (Theodore) Sturgeon (if
not him, probably from same vintage). Main "character" is a full-sized
bonsai tree being sculpted. There's a woman in the story who has cancer. The
relationship between the two has something to do with the idea that it isn't
the most perfect tree that makes the best bonsai, but the one with the flaw,
much like the woman 'flawed' by the cancer.

Thanks for whatever help the collective mind can give......

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 3:17 PM

At 02:51 PM 1/17/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon fits the bill, I think. I remember
the question of "whether the man or the tree was being sculpted."
>
>Roberta S. Johnson

I agree that it's "Slow Sculpture."

Here's a few locations. (The ongoing COMPLETE STORIES Sturgeon project
won't get up to this one for a couple of volumes yet, but it's been
anthologized/collected elsewhere several times.)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 3:28 PM

>I agree that it's "Slow Sculpture."
>
>Here's a few locations.

Forgot to cut and paste. It's Friday afternoon... sorry.

Slow Sculpture, (nv) Galaxy Feb 1970
Sturgeon Is Alive and Well..., G.P. Putnam’s 1971
The World’s Best Science Fiction: 1971, ed. Donald A. Wollheim &
Terry Carr, Ace 1971
Nebula Award Stories 6, ed. Clifford D. Simak, Garden City, NY:
Doubleday 1971
Speculations, ed. Thomas E. Sanders, Glencoe Press 1973
The Hugo Winners (Volume 3), ed. Isaac Asimov, Doubleday 1977
Galaxy, ed. Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D.
Olander, Playboy 1980
Science Fiction: Masters of Today, ed. Dr. Arthur Liebman,
Richards Rosen 1981
Galaxy Volume 2, ed. Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph
D. Olander, Playboy Paperbacks 1981
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IV, ed. Terry Carr, Avon, 1986
A Touch of Sturgeon, Simon & Schuster UK, 1987
The Best of the Nebulas, ed. Ben Bova, Tor, 1989
The Best of the Nebulas, ed. Ben Bova, Robert Hale, 1990

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Georgine Olson" <[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 4:20 PM

Thanks for the super-quick responses. I posted the query just before
leaving for lunch; answers were waiting when I returned; patron will have
answer at her desktop when she gets home tonite! (all this is Alaska time,
of course!)

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Roberta Johnson
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:52 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: SF short story stumper

Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon fits the bill, I think. I remember the
question of "whether the man or the tree was being sculpted."

Roberta S. Johnson
Readers' Services Librarian
Des Plaines Public Library
1501 Ellinwood St. Des Plaines, IL 60016
www.dppl.org [removed]@dppl.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Georgine Olson [[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:30 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: SF short story stumper

A member of our Fantasy / Science Fiction Discussion Group is trying to hunt
down the title (and author) of this short story:

Science fiction story, think it was written by Ted (Theodore) Sturgeon (if
not him, probably from same vintage). Main "character" is a full-sized
bonsai tree being sculpted. There's a woman in the story who has cancer. The
relationship between the two has something to do with the idea that it isn't
the most perfect tree that makes the best bonsai, but the one with the flaw,
much like the woman 'flawed' by the cancer.

Thanks for whatever help the collective mind can give......

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

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