More Than Human

What could unite a “mentally deficient” boy living separately—according to those around him—who can’t control his behavior, a girl who can’t manage her behavior, a backward, seemingly helpless infant, and a pair of twin girls with a two-word dictionary? Yet as soon as they somehow joined together in a mysterious way, this alliance through the lens of gestalt psychology becomes something very different from the rest of humanity. Super-gifted children possessing telepathy, telekinesis, super-intelligence, and teleportation merge into a symbiosis (Homo Gestalt) and stand against a hostile world.

Hugo Award — Nominee, 1954; retrospective // Novel