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The Ego Machine
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology--don\'t do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible? Celebrated playwright Nicholas Martin didn’t read the small print in his Hollywood options contract. Now he’s facing five years of servitude to a conceited director named Raoul St. Cyr, who’s taken a thoughtful play about Portuguese fishermen and added dancing mermaids. When it seems the plot has changed to include a robot from the future Nicholas looses all hope, but this robot may be just what he needs to win his freedom. The Ego Machine was first published in the May, 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine.
The Secret of Kralitz
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Shock
Henry Kuttner
THE world of the future will he a wonderful place, and the men of the future will be supermen—always perfect. Of course. Naturally. Only—
Man Drowning
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A powerful and violent crime fiction novel from an iconic author and "one of the major names in science fiction" (The New York Times). Nick Banning was a man drowning in a land of far horizons, a land that had all the vigor sucked out of it ages ago by the Arizona sun. But it wasn't the blasting heat of an Arizona desert that bothered Nick—it was the heat of his own emotions, his desire for Sherry, the woman who had told him no. But Nick was winding up, faster and faster. He meant to have Sherry—or else. "[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas." —Ray Bradbury
Bypass to Otherness (1961) SSC
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A solid collection of science fiction stories from the mid-1940s which can be divided into two main groups: tales of mutations induced by nuclear war, leading to the next step in human evolution, and plain humourous tales. The former are very much products of their time (and nothing wrong with that), with the atomic bomb at the forefront of everybody's consciousness in the immediate post-war era.
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Absalom Originally appeared in Starting Stories, Fall 1946
Call Him Demon Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1946
Cold War Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Oct 1949
Dark Angel – Starting Stories, March 1946
Housing Problem 1944 Reprinted from Charm.
Little Things Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1946
Nothing but Gingerbread Left 1946 . Reprinted from Astounding Fiction
The Piper’s Son 1945 . Reprinted from Astounding Science Fiction
Collected Fiction
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Bypass To Otherness
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
My Conversion
A solid collection of
science fiction stories from the mid-1940s which can be divided into two main
groups: tales of mutations induced by nuclear war, leading to the next step in
human evolution, and plain humourous tales. The former are very much products
of their time (and nothing wrong with that), with the atomic bomb at the
forefront of everybody's consciousness in the immediate post-war era.
Nothing But Gingerbread Left
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A story of a rhyme, of perfect rhythm, and the complete disruption of military machinery hy a nursery jingle that could not be forgotten.
Where the World is Quiet
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Marion Zimmer Bradley is among many authors who have cited Kuttner as an influence. Her novel The Bloody Sun is dedicated to him. The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully assembling powdery relics of ancient races and civilizations. But White\'s lone Peruvian odyssey was most unusual. Fra Rafael saw strange things, impossible things. Then there was the mystery of the seven young virginal girls of Huascan. . . .
Line to Tomorrow
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Fletcher kept on getting strange phone calls, telling him about the future, he seemed to have a direct line to tomorrow...
Piggy Bank
Henry Kuttner
He was a beautiful robot—all gold plated, and studded with sparkling diamonds. And he couldn’t do a thing—not a thing but run away. At that, however, he was damnably skillful— so damnably skillful that he damned the man who owned him.-0-The robot — was a rabbit — or had that psychology. He had a diamond-studded body, and was trained to be untouchable. Even his owner couldn’t touch him—without giving information that was suicide!
Endowment Policy (ss)
Henry Kuttner
The kindly old gentleman wanted to give the young taxi driver a present, A very wonderful present, entirely free—but decidedly not without very adequate—if very strange—reason.
The Proud Robot (ss)
Henry Kuttner
Gallegher, the mad—or at least pie-eyed—scientist had produced a remarkable robot. But seemingly useless. It spent its time admiring its unquestionably remarkable. if not beautiful, self. But Gallegher had to find out—but quick!—why he’d made the infernal thing.
Lands of the Earthquake
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
William Boyce, in whose veins flows the blood of crusaders, goes on the quest of a lost memory and a mysterious woman in an odd clime where cities move and time stands motionless!
Trouble on Titan
Part #4 of "Tony Quade" series by Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The sub-human denizens of Saturn’s largest moon were said to be harmless—but when the ace director of Nine Planets Films was sent to photograph them, he was in for a shock!
Earth's Last Citadel
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Four WWII combatants travel to a distant and dangerous future in this novel by "two of the most revered names from [science fiction's] Golden Age" (SFReviews.net). During World War II, four bitter enemies are pulled forward a billion years in time by a master being from an alien galaxy. They arrive on a dying Earth—to Carcasilla, Earth's last citadel—where the mutated remnants of humanity are making their final stand against the monstrous creations of a fading world. Thrust in the middle of this desperate struggle for survival, the last humans must put aside their differences and stop the looming Armageddon. Praise for Henry Kuttner "One of the all-time major names in science fiction." —The New York Times "A neglected master." —Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 "Kuttner is magic." —Joe R. Lansdale, author of The Thicket
Jesting Pilot
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Under normal circumstances, a man must face reality to be a sane, well-balanced citizen. But not in that city! Any man who faced and understood the reality of the place was insane!
Time Locker
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A useful little gadget. Stick anything in and it shrank, shrank to a point where it was invisible and totally concealed—but it would also shrink other things and permit curious sorts of crime—
Clash By Night
Henry Kuttner
THE whole system of which he was a part was doomed, he knew—a mercenary army that fought other mercenary armies for cities that lay beneath the seas of Venus. Yet—there was a fascination and a reasonless loyalty; to that futile system that held him.
The Mask of Circe
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A psychiatrist travels to a world of magic and gods in this take on "Jason and the Argonauts" from the Hugo Award–nominated author of Earth's Last Citadel. Jay Seward remembers a former life in a land of magic, gods, and goddesses—a time when he was Jason of Iolcus, sailing in the enchanted ship Argo to steal the Golden Fleece from the serpent-temples of Apollo. But one night the memories become startlingly real, as the Argo itself sails out of the spectral mists and a hauntingly beautiful voice calls: "Jason . . . come to me!" And suddenly he's on the deck of the Argo, sailing into danger and magic . . . "A fantasy in the grand tradition of Merritt and the other giants." —Arthur Leo Zagat, author of the Tomorrow series Praise for Henry Kuttner "One of the all-time major names in science fiction." —The New York Times "A neglected master." —Ray...
Hercules Muscles In
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
When the Strong Man of Peloponnesos Finds Himself in a Labor Daze, Year-Leaper Pete Proves That a Brain and Brawn Trust Is Mightier Than Zeus!
The Complete Fury
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Open Secret
Henry Kuttner
NOTHING secret at all. Walk in their office any time. Only — somehow the word couldn’t be spread, the world couldn’t understand—
Thunder Jim Wade
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Available for the first time... the complete saga of Thunder Jim Wade! Written by fantasy legend Henry Kuttner, this collection reprints all five adventures of Thunder Jim Wade from 1941. Long discounted as a Doc Savage clone, "Thunder Jim Wade: The Complete Series" brings to life this classic pulp hero and shows him to be much more than a knock-off!
Return to Otherness (1962) SSC
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
In this second "otherness" volume of stories by Henry Kuttner, the editors have again selected those works which have never appeared in other collections, and seldom even in an anthology. Further, the stories have lent themselves to a theme broadly based on robotics -- or more properly, man-made creations or machines which duplicate the purposes and activities of man. In the hands of Henry Kuttner, however, no robot, let alone android, could ever remain merely an extraordinary concatenation of nuts, bolts and wires. Therefore, there is a tremendous diversity between these amusing, terrifying and all-too-human tales. And since no collection of Henry Kuttner's work would seem complete without the Hogbens, that marvelous family which has blasted its way into the affections of all aficionados, we have included one gem from that group. All in all, a collection of intoxicating delight.
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SEE YOU LATER Thrilling Wonder Stories, June, 1949.
THIS IS THE HOUSE Astounding Science Fiction 1946
THE PROUD ROBOT Astounding Science Fiction 1943
GALLEGHER PLUS Astounding Science Fiction 1943
ANDROID The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1951.
THE SKY IS FALLING 1950
JUKEBOX Thrilling Wonder Stories, February, 1947.
The World is Mine
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Gallagher, the mad—or at least cockeyed—scientist, got himself into real trouble that time. Corpses—several of them, but all, unpleasantly, his own—kept haunting him. And the Martians he’d accidentally brought up out of Time kept insisting,somewhat plaintively, the world was theirs.
Fury
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Beneath the roiling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps—fully enclosed cities and within those cities live descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to propel the spaceships that took them to Venus. In massive superstructures built beneath the Venusian seas, a complex feudal society devoted simply to decadence has evolved. Presiding over that society are Immortals—genetic throwbacks to the mutant atomic survivors. While the society is stable, the stability will only lead to its destruction, and the harsh environment outside the Keeps is malevolent and encroaching.Born into all of this is Sam Harker, son of an Immortal, the object of his father's disdain and whose mother perishes in childbirth. Sam is subjected to treatments which stunt his growth and leave him hairless, and he is exiled from the society of the Immortals and set on the tumultuous path of a rebel's life, one inspired by hatred and a desire for vengeance on the society...
Well of the Worlds
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Wen the curiously exotic millionairess Klai Ford started telling him about ghosts in a uranium mine, Sawyer knew he d better be ready for anything in his investigations. But he didn t count on being drawn into a passage between dimensions and tossed adrift in a world of islands floating in the sky, where strange brutelike creatures were attacking the cities in a vast struggle for power. Lost in this new world, Sawyer realized that the key to everything lay in the mysterious Well of the Worlds - and that the future of the universe lay in its secret.
We Guard The Black Planet
Part #3 of "Kuttner" series by Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Onbekend
Exit the Professor
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The professor wanted to study the Hogbens... to figure out their mysteries...
Gallegher Plus gs-3
Part #3 of "Gallegher Stories" series by Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Gallegher invents a machine that solves three problems at ones. But what exactly?
Michael Gray Novels
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
"[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas." —Ray BradburyGetting into his patients' minds gets Dr. Michael Gray into all sorts of trouble. The psychoanalyst is constantly drawn into the lives, and murders, of his troubled clientele. His keen investigative eye and his habit of getting himself in over his head leads him to meet some of San Francisco's most memorable denizens, and to forever be in mortal danger.A master of genre fiction, Henry Kuttner's Michael Gray novels are ideal for fans of classic mysteries like Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series. Still fresh and always fun, Kuttner creates one of suspense's most unusual amateur sleuths, and his wildly entertaining cases will keep readers laughing—and gasping—to the final page.
Robots Have No Tails
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
"[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas." —Ray BradburyA complete collection of his Galloway Gallegher stories from the Hugo nominated master of science fiction.In this complete collection, Kuttner is back with Galloway Gallegher, his most beloved character in the stories that helped make him famous. Gallegher is a binge-drinking scientist who's a genius when drunk and totally clueless sober. Hounded by creditors and government officials, he wakes from each bender to discover a new invention designed to solve all his problems—if only he knew how it worked...Add in a vain and uncooperative robot assistant, a heckling grandfather, and a host of uninvited guests—from rabbit-like aliens to time-traveling mafia lawyers to his own future corpse—and Gallegher has more on his hands than even he can handle. Time for a drink!
The Red Gem of Mercury
Kuttner, Henry
A stone from the stars kept vigil, and a dead man smiled, as Steve Vane bore a death token from Mercury to the man who had promised him--murder!
Excerpt The noise of pursuit was growing louder. Steve Vane's lungs ached with each knife-thrust, gasping breath of the icy air. His gray prison garments were no protection against the wintry breeze, and his thin shoes were already wet with snow and beginning to freeze.
It was hard to keep going. It would be far easier to give up the mad attempt, to stop and wait, with his hands in the air, till the guards came and took him back to the bare gray walls of his cell. But--Vane took a quick glance at the grim-faced man racing along beside him--if tough little Tony Apollo could keep going, certainly husky, big-shouldered Steve Vane could grit his teeth and stagger along. But where would it end? The break had been hopeless from the start, doomed to certain failure. Only the iron determination of Tony Apollo, and the burning sense of injustice rankling within Vane had kept the latter's will firm.
"Pasqual framed us both," Apollo had said, his dark face sombre with hatred. "I've been in here longer than you have--but I'm getting out now. If you're smart, you're coming with me. One of us has a chance to get Pasqual before the cops nail us."
And so the two had planned and fled. Blue and shaking with cold, they plunged along the bank of the river gorge toward the cabin Apollo had said would serve as a hideout.
The Best of C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Two legendary masters of science fiction and fantasy come together in this landmark anthology, filled with gems from the Weird Tales era and beyond.During the weird fiction boom that gave birth to H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon and Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore produced some of the most enduring pieces of speculative fiction in the genre's history: the sagas of Jirel of Joiry, Northwest Smith of Earth, Galloway Gallegher, and more. Working closely, Kuttner and Moore became a husband and wife team whose work appeared in everything from television and print to the Cthulhu mythos.Both Moore and Kuttner have a legacy that is as acclaimed as it is widely read: Moore received a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement by the SFWA while Ray Bradbury called Kuttner a "neglected master." Now, for the first time, some of their best work is collected in one anthology, including "Black God's Kiss," "Shambleau," "Graveyard Rats," "Mimsy...
Baldy
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Contains all five books in the Baldy series. The Piper's Son, Three Blind Mice, The Lion and the Unicorn, Beggars in Velvet, Humpty Dumpty, and the extra addition of Mutant!
The Best of Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
"[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas." —Ray BradburyFrom the renowned, Hugo-nominated titan of science fiction comes a collection of his best short stories.In seventeen classic stories, Henry Kuttner creates a unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angry aliens. These stories include "Mimsy Were the Borogoves"—the inspiration for New Line Cinema's major motion picture The Last Mimzy—as well as "Two-Handed Engine," "The Proud Robot," "The Misguided Halo," "The Voice of the Lobster," "Exit the Professor," "The Twonky," "A Gnome There Was," "The Big Night," "Nothing But Gingerbread Left," "The Iron Standard," "Cold War," "Or Else," "Endowment Policy," "Housing Problem," "What You Need," and "Absalom."
The Creature from Beyond Infinity
Henry Kuttner
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Like a great, lethal snake, plague creeps through the galaxies. No conscious entity can halt its progress, and life is slowly draining from planet after planet. Only one super-intelligence is capable of preventing cataclysm. To do it, he must penetrate far beyond infinity—to the formless, deathless creature out to kill the universe.
