Theodore Sturgeon Story Help

[Jahiya]

Hi,
I read a short story by Theodore Sturgeon some years ago and now cannot remember the title. The story was about a woman that served as a (sex facilitator?) on a space ship. She was referred to as piggy. I think she had issues with being unattractive and most people felt she looked like a pig. In the course of the story she killed the crew on the ship and redirected it to an unknown world which she had dreamt about since she was a child. She arrives at the world but is unable to leave the ship because of the intense radiation on the planet's surface. However a creature spies her through the windows of the ship and they recognize each other from their dreams. They were in love with each other and had reached out through the distances of the universe. Unfortunately she could not survive on the planet but did spend her last hours with the alien she loved.

Has anyone read this? Can you remember what it is called? Thanks for the help!
~J

 

[Spade]

See if this is it. I found the term 'piggy'.

A Way of Thinking as collected in A Saucer of Loneliness

 

[Jahiya]

I checked this book but the story does not seem to be there. Any other ideas? Thanks!

 

[Shinya]

I'm new for this forum, but I'm grad to make a help in my first post.
It's not Sturgeon, but James Tiptree Jr.'s "With Delicate Mad Hands"
You can find it in a collection of her(his) short stories "Out of Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions". You can also read her masterpiece "Screwfly Solution" in this book.
This story(and the author herself) is quite popular in my country, but seems to be almost forgotten by English readers.

 

[Jahiya]

Shinya thank you for finding this story for me!

 

[fishend]

Have you read Theodore Sturgeon's Microcosmic god? My favourite story from this author, re-read it I don't n=know how many times!

 

[Jahiya]

I have not read this, but I will now!!!

 

[yngvi]

There is a story in the book "E Pluribus Unicorn" by Theodore Sturgeon about a couple in a post-nuclear world who live in a shelter with a window to the outside. The wife of the couple is enticed by a peculiar elven being who lives outside and eventually opens the window and goes outside to be with him (presumably dying as a result)