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Bio: Henry Kuttner (l9l4-l958) was alone and in collaboration with his wife, the great science fiction and fantasy writer C.L. Moore, one of the four or five most important writers of the l940's, the writer whose work went furthest in its sociological and psychological insight, to making science fiction a human as well as technological literature. He was an important influence upon every contemporary and every science fiction writer who succeeded him. In the early 1940's and under many pseudonyms, Kuttner and Moore published very widely through the range of the science fiction and fantasy pulp markets. Their fantasy novels, all of them for the lower grade markets like FUTURE, THRILLING WONDER, PLANET STORIES, are forgotten now; their science fiction novels, FURY and MUTANT are however well regarded. There is no question but that Kuttner's talent lay primarily in the shorter form; MUTANT is an amalgamation of five novelettes and FURY, his only true science fiction novel, is considered as secondary material. Three are, however, 40 or 50 shorter works which are among the most significant achievements in the field and they remain consistently in print. The critic James Blish, quoting a passage from MUTANT about the telepathic perception of the little blank, silvery minds of goldfish, noted that writing of this quality was not only rare in science fiction but rare throughout literature; "The Kuttners learned a few thing writing for the pulp magazines, however, that one doesn't learn reading Henry James."
In the early 1950's, Kuttner and Moore, both citing weariness with writing, even creative exhaustion, turned away from science fiction; both obtained undergraduate degrees in psychology from the University of Southern California and Henry Kuttner, enrolled in an MA program, planned to be a clinical psychologist. A few science fiction short stories and novelettes appeared (HUMPTY DUMPTY, finished the Baldy series, in l953.) Those stories - HOME THERE IS NO RETURNING, HOME IS THE HUNTER, TWO-HANDED ENGINE and RITE OF PASSAGE - were at the highest level of Kuttner's work. He also published three mystery novels with Harper &Row (of which only the first is certainly his; the other two, apparently, were farmed out by Kuttner to other writers when he found himself incapable of finishing them). Henry Kuttner died suddenly in his sleep, probably from a stroke, in February l958; Catherine Moore remarried a physician and survived him by almost three decades but she never published again. She remained in touch with the science fiction community, however, and was Guest of Honor at the World Convention in Denver in l98l. She died of complications of Alzheimer's Disease in l987.


 

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1 The Well of the Worlds [MultiFormat]
by Henry Kuttner
  Clifford Sawyer, investigating ghosts in a mine, finds ancient beings from another world--and gets swept up in a titanic struggle between for control of a parallel dimension. Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. They met through their association with the "Lovecraft Circle," a group of writers and fans who corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft. Their work together spanned the 1940s and 1950s, mostly published under p... more info>> (Published: 1952)

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2 Clash by Night [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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  This remarkably inventive novella, published originally in the February 1943 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, sculpts a complicated feudal society based on decadence and warfare, a tragic warrior hero and a brilliantly imagined Venus within its compass of 25,000 words. "Clash By Night" foreshadows the full-length novel, Fury, which appeared in Astounding three years later. The novella is centered on Brian Scott, a so-called "Free Companion" who is a warrior for one of the competing undersea ... more info>>
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3 Fury [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Henry Kuttner
  Under the roiling seas of Venus, under the deadly atmosphere are the Keeps, fully enclosed cities, and within them live the descendants of those survivors who used atomic energy to propel the spaceships which first took them to Venus. In the massive superstructures that were built under the Venusian seas a complex feudal society devoted to decadence has evolved. Presiding over that society are the Immortals--genetic throwbacks to the mutant atomic survivors--who control the culture. This is a st... more info>>
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4 Mutant [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Henry Kuttner
  After the Blow-Up, the children of a small group of the survivors were born with the capacity for telepathy--to perceive and share the thoughts of others. This minority, once the children became able to communicate their ability, became a feared and quarantined group; "ordinary" humans felt that their privacy had been taken from them and that the mutants, the "Baldies" (so called because of their most distinguishing visible characteristic) by knowing their most secrets could destroy them. Most o... more info>>
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