I was going to guess that other weird sci fi author whose name vanished between reading the rest of the thread and typing this, but Ray Bradbury isn't surprising. Not Silverberg. There is a TH in it. The one who wrote those very strange stories like the machine that if you put a bone in for a particular part, as one inventor did when he couldn't find anything else, you could then see how the body the bone used to belong to died. WHO THE BLAZES IS IT I know his name like my own!

Fun fact to know and tell, when I saw Ray Bradbury on You Bet Your Life, he lost because neither he nor his partner knew what POST-PRANDIAL meant! I was SO disappointed.

GOT IT! Theodore Sturgeon. Man, what a weirdo. Just my style.