Henry Kuttner (1915–1958)
Author of The Best of Henry Kuttner
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Kuttner and his wife C. L. Moore often collaborated. According to Wikipedia, pseudonyms used by him or by both included: Edward J. Bellin, Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Will Garth, James Hall, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Peter Horn, Kelvin Kent, Robert O. Kenyon, C. H. Liddell, Hugh Maepenn, Scott Morgan, Lawrence O'Donnell, Lewis Padgett, Woodrow Wilson Smith, and Charles Stoddard. Despite the fact that they often collaborated, they are nevertheless separate authors who should have separate author pages. Please do not combine one with the other, or the other's pseudonyms. Thank you.
Series
Works by Henry Kuttner
Two Handed Engine The Selected Stories of Henry Kuttner and C.L.Moore (2004) — Author — 85 copies, 1 review
Private Eye 9 copies
The Children's Hour 7 copies
The Graveyard Rats And Other Stories 6 copies
Two-Handed Engine [short story] 6 copies
See You Later 6 copies
Cold War 6 copies
Nothing But Gingerbread Left 5 copies
The Big Night 5 copies
Carry Me Home 4 copies
Housing Problem 4 copies
The Cure 4 copies
Home Is The Hunter — Author — 4 copies
The Voice Of The Lobster 4 copies
Piggy Bank 4 copies
The Dark Angel 3 copies
The Lion and the Unicorn [novelette] 3 copies
Swing Your Lady 3 copies
As you were 3 copies
Endowment Policy [short story] 3 copies
Beyond The Phoenix 3 copies
Noon 3 copies
The Sky Is Falling 3 copies
Project 3 copies
Time Enough 3 copies
Year Day 3 copies
Kuttner times three 3 copies
Baby Face 3 copies
4 Titles By Henry Kuttner : Mutant - No Boundaries (with C L Moore) - Bypass to Otherness - Return to Otherness (1962) 3 copies
The Elixir Of Invisibility 2 copies
The Disinherited 2 copies
World Without Air 2 copies
Reverse Atom (short story) 2 copies
Man About Time (short story) 2 copies
The Comedy of Eras (short story) 2 copies
All is Illusion 2 copies
We Guard the Black Planet 2 copies
Masquerade [Short Story] 2 copies
No Man’s World (short story) 2 copies
The Star Parade 2 copies
The Secret Of the Earth Star 2 copies
Shock 2 copies
World's Pharoah 2 copies
Suicide Squad 2 copies
Trouble on Titan 2 copies
The Collected Works of Henry Kuttner: The Ego Machine, Where the World is Quiet, I, the Vampire, The Salem Horror,… (2020) 2 copies
Startling Stories, November 1940 2 copies
Avengers Of Space 2 copies
Clash by Night 2 copies
Improbability 2 copies
Startling Stories, March 1940 2 copies
The Energy Eaters 2 copies
Dream's End 2 copies
Pegasus (short story) 2 copies
Rain Check 2 copies
We Kill People 2 copies
Wild Surmise 2 copies
Open Secret 2 copies
A Gnome There Was [short fiction] 2 copies
Margin For Error 2 copies
Near Miss 2 copies
The Bloodless Peril 2 copies
50 Miles Down 2 copies
The Power And The Glory 2 copies
Towers of Death 1 copy
Way of the Gods 1 copy
The Odyssey of Yiggar Throlg 1 copy
The Prisoner in the Skull 1 copy
We Shall Come Back 1 copy
Lord of the Storm 1 copy
The Land of Time to Come 1 copy
Remember Tomorrow 1 copy
Promised Land 1 copy
Raider of the Spaceways 1 copy
I Am Eden 1 copy
A God Named Kroo 1 copy
The Frog 1 copy
Tropic Hell 1 copy
Science is Golden! 1 copy
Czego ci trzeba 1 copy
Elak z Atlantydy 1 copy
Темный мир 1 copy
The Original Fury Duology 1 copy
Pragaištingas laivas 1 copy
Clash By Night 1 copy
Hogben Stories 1 copy
Khogbeny, gnomy, demony, a takzhe roboty, inoplanetiane i prochie zakhvatyvaiuschie nepriiatnosti (2006) 1 copy
Short Fiction Collection 1 copy
Short Fiction 1 copy
Pete Manx Series 1 copy
Vénus et Titan 1 copy
The Man-eating Lizards — Author — 1 copy
Ffuria 1 copy
Księżycowe Hollywood 1 copy
Vénus et le Titan 1 copy
The Crystal Circe 1 copy
Chameleon Man 1 copy
Clash By Night 1 copy
The Dweller in the Tomb 1 copy
The best of Kuttner 1 copy
The Shining Man (novelette) 1 copy
Threshold (short story) 1 copy
The Lifestone (novelette) 1 copy
Fury, etc 1 copy
The Invaders 1 copy
Gli occhi di medusa 1 copy
Iedomīgais robots : [stāsti] 1 copy
Seikkailujen sankareita 1 copy
[as yet unknown] 1 copy
Grab Bag 1 copy
Grief Of Bagdad 1 copy
Wet Magic 1 copy
Fairy Chessmen 1 1 copy
Fairy Chessmen 2 1 copy
Ghost 1 copy
Rite Of Passage 1 copy
Raiders of the Spaceways 1 copy
Corpus Delicti 1 copy
Paradise Street 1 copy
Later Than You Think 1 copy
The Devil We Know 1 copy
The Wolf of Aragon 1 copy
Percy the Pirate 1 copy
The Visitors 1 copy
The Curse of the Crocodile 1 copy
Time to Kill 1 copy
Trophy 1 copy
Bamboo Death 1 copy
Hands Across the Void 1 copy
The Devil's Brood 1 copy
Golden Apple 1 copy
When the Earth Lived 1 copy
The Greeks had a War for It 1 copy
I Am the Wolf 1 copy
The Mad Virus 1 copy
The Dark Heritage 1 copy
Lögn eller mord 1 copy
The Valley Of the Flame 1 copy
The Skit-Tree Planet 1 copy
We Are the Dead 1 copy
World’s End 1 copy
Before I Wake 1 copy
The Room of Souls 1 copy
Dictator of the Americas 1 copy
Extrapolation 1 copy
The Little Things 1 copy
Dead Man's Tale 1 copy
Associated Works
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time (1973) — Contributor — 927 copies, 12 reviews
Devils & Demons: A Treasury of Fiendish Tales Old & New (1991) — Contributor — 267 copies, 2 reviews
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 9: Robots (1989) — Contributor — 115 copies, 2 reviews
Dogs of War: Ten Classic Stories of Men and Machines in War (2002) — Contributor — 110 copies, 1 review
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Contributor — 106 copies, 5 reviews
They Came From Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1980) — Contributor — 97 copies, 1 review
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contributor — 95 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction - Fourth Series (1984) — Contributor — 92 copies, 1 review
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1992) — Contributor — 90 copies, 3 reviews
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 9: Atlantis (1988) — Contributor — 79 copies, 1 review
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Contributor — 78 copies
SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: 3rd Annual Volume (1958) — Contributor — 65 copies, 1 review
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Contributor — 57 copies, 2 reviews
Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2019) — Contributor — 33 copies, 1 review
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007) — Contributor — 28 copies, 2 reviews
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Contributor — 28 copies
Transformations: Understanding World History Through Science Fiction (1973) — Contributor — 25 copies
Science-Fiction Classics: The Stories That Morphed Into Movies (1999) — Contributor — 24 copies, 1 review
The Lure of Atlantis: Strange Tales from the Sunken Continent: 40 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Contributor — 19 copies
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Vampire Megapack: 27 Modern and Classic Vampire Stories (2012) — Contributor — 15 copies, 2 reviews
Science Fiction Omnibus: The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949, 1950 (1952) — Contributor — 11 copies
Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 3, October 1936 — Contributor — 4 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 3, March 1938 — Contributor — 4 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 6, June 1938 — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 1, July 1937 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 2, February 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 1, July 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 33 Number 4, April 1939 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 29 Number 5, May 1937 — Contributor — 2 copies
Μεγάλη Ανθολογία Ε.Φ. 1. (1934 - 1950) — Contributor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 34 Number 5, November 1939 — Contributor — 1 copy
Urania Millemondinverno 1991 — Contributor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 3, September 1937 — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Bellin, Edward J.
- Other names
- O'Donnell, Lawrence
Padgett, Lewis
Bellin, Edward J.
Edmonds, Paul
Gardner, Noel
Garth, Will (show all 17)
Hall, James
Hammond, Keith
Hastings, Hudson
Horn, Peter
Kent, Kelvin
Kenyon, Robert O.
Liddell, C. H.
Maepenn, Hugh
Morgan, Scott
Smith, Woodrow Wilson
Stoddard, Charles - Birthdate
- 1915-04-07
- Date of death
- 1958-02-04
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Occupations
- short story writer
novelist
science fiction author
horror writer - Relationships
- Moore, C. L. (wife)
Padgett, Lewis (gestalt entity) - Awards and honors
- Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award (2004)
- Disambiguation notice
- Kuttner and his wife C. L. Moore often collaborated. According to Wikipedia, pseudonyms used by him or by both included: Edward J. Bellin, Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Will Garth, James Hall, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Peter Horn, Kelvin Kent, Robert O. Kenyon, C. H. Liddell, Hugh Maepenn, Scott Morgan, Lawrence O'Donnell, Lewis Padgett, Woodrow Wilson Smith, and Charles Stoddard.
Despite the fact that they often collaborated, they are nevertheless separate authors who should have separate author pages. Please do not combine one with the other, or the other's pseudonyms. Thank you.
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Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "The Graveyard Rats" by Henry Kuttner in The Weird Tradition (June 14)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Quest of the Starstone" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore in The Weird Tradition (February 11)
THE DEEP ONES: "I, the Vampire" by Henry Kuttner in The Weird Tradition (March 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Home is the Hunter" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore in The Weird Tradition (December 2021)
Henry Kuttner in The Weird Tradition (June 2011)
Not an actual book, just a Sci-Fi short story in Name that Book (September 2010)
Reviews
Mimsy were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett
Science fiction short story with time travel and psychoanalysis. The title comes from Lewis Carrols' Jabberwocky. (Judge Middleton jn his Michigan courtroom refers to the nonsense spoken by soveirgn citizens as borogoves.
½
I read the first three of the five stories, and may finish this at some point (which is why I didn't say DNF). Right now, I have to say, yes, my friend is right, this seems like a precursor to Rick & Morty, the animated series. It is dated, but not unreasonable, and goofy but just clever enough. I wouldn't be surprised to learn alcohol was involved. :)
#1 "Time Locker" got a 'well yes of course' snort, at the appropriate moment, so that's a success.
#2 "The World is Mine" is silly and predictable, with bits of clever.
#3 "The Proud Robot" (my friend's favorite) I found it fairly cleverly plotted, but I got bored and had to push to the end, so of these three, I enjoyed the first one best.
Haven't read:
#4 "Ex Machina"
#5 "Ex Machina" (same friend said this one was meh)… (more)
#1 "Time Locker" got a 'well yes of course' snort, at the appropriate moment, so that's a success.
#2 "The World is Mine" is silly and predictable, with bits of clever.
#3 "The Proud Robot" (my friend's favorite) I found it fairly cleverly plotted, but I got bored and had to push to the end, so of these three, I enjoyed the first one best.
Haven't read:
#4 "Ex Machina"
#5 "Ex Machina" (same friend said this one was meh)… (more)
Mimsy Were the Borogroves, 4 stars
A Wonderful story about a box of "toys," from somewhere else in time, that a 7 year old boy picks up and brings home and shares with his 2-year-old sister. Since the toys are from somewhere else in time, they teach the children what the children from somewhere else in time learn. How to go to another dimension?
It was kind of weird how the mother had no other job than to make cocktails for her husband. And a professor from the University made enough money for them to have a full-time maid.
Two-handed Engine, 2 stars
In the future, mankind has lost his conscience; he can no longer feel any love for his fellow mankind. So, robots decide by themselves, that in order for mankind to survive (because they're killing each other off), they need to be mankind's conscience. Thus, if you kill another man, very soon a robot called a Fury will begin to follow you. You will never be able to lose him, and other people will be staring at you, knowing that your time is short, when the robot will kill you. This is a deterrent for crime.
Kind of lame story, and also slightly reminiscent of The Minority Report.
The Proud Robot, 2 stars
Rather unlikely tale about an inventor who drinks so much, I don't know how he stands up, and his can-opener robot.
Listen to how the top most popular studio is run:
" 'televisors are installed free. We never sell 'em; we rent them. People pay according to how many hours they have the set tuned in. We run a continuous show, stage plays, wire-tape films, operas, orchestras, singers, vaudeville--everything. If you use your televisor a lot, you pay proportionately. The man comes around once a month and reads the meter. Which is a fair system. Anybody can afford a Vox-View. Sonatone and the other companies do the same thing, but Sonatone's the only big competitor I've got. At least, the only one that's crooked as hell. The rest of the boys -- they're smaller than I am, but I don't step on their toes. Nobody's ever called me a louse,' Brock said darkly."
The Misguided Halo, 2 stars
The best thing about this story was the dog:
" 'hello, Filthy, said Young. 'Morning.'
He was not addressing his wife. A small and raffish Scotty had made its appearance, capering hysterically about its Master's feet, and going into a fit of sheer madness when the man pulled its hairy ears. The raffish Scotty flung its head sideways upon the carpet and skated about the room on its muzzle, uttering strangled squeaks of delight. Growing tired of this at last, the Scotty, whose name was Filthy McNasty, began thumping its head on the floor with the apparent intention of dashing out its brains, if any."
Adorable.
The Voice of the Lobster, 1 star
Misogynistic.
"At the first convenient doorway McDuff paused and looked at Ao. She was worth looking at. She stood in the doorway, thinking of nothing at all. She didn't have to think of anything. She was too beautiful."
… (more)
A Wonderful story about a box of "toys," from somewhere else in time, that a 7 year old boy picks up and brings home and shares with his 2-year-old sister. Since the toys are from somewhere else in time, they teach the children what the children from somewhere else in time learn. How to go to another dimension?
It was kind of weird how the mother had no other job than to make cocktails for her husband. And a professor from the University made enough money for them to have a full-time maid.
Two-handed Engine, 2 stars
In the future, mankind has lost his conscience; he can no longer feel any love for his fellow mankind. So, robots decide by themselves, that in order for mankind to survive (because they're killing each other off), they need to be mankind's conscience. Thus, if you kill another man, very soon a robot called a Fury will begin to follow you. You will never be able to lose him, and other people will be staring at you, knowing that your time is short, when the robot will kill you. This is a deterrent for crime.
Kind of lame story, and also slightly reminiscent of The Minority Report.
The Proud Robot, 2 stars
Rather unlikely tale about an inventor who drinks so much, I don't know how he stands up, and his can-opener robot.
Listen to how the top most popular studio is run:
" 'televisors are installed free. We never sell 'em; we rent them. People pay according to how many hours they have the set tuned in. We run a continuous show, stage plays, wire-tape films, operas, orchestras, singers, vaudeville--everything. If you use your televisor a lot, you pay proportionately. The man comes around once a month and reads the meter. Which is a fair system. Anybody can afford a Vox-View. Sonatone and the other companies do the same thing, but Sonatone's the only big competitor I've got. At least, the only one that's crooked as hell. The rest of the boys -- they're smaller than I am, but I don't step on their toes. Nobody's ever called me a louse,' Brock said darkly."
The Misguided Halo, 2 stars
The best thing about this story was the dog:
" 'hello, Filthy, said Young. 'Morning.'
He was not addressing his wife. A small and raffish Scotty had made its appearance, capering hysterically about its Master's feet, and going into a fit of sheer madness when the man pulled its hairy ears. The raffish Scotty flung its head sideways upon the carpet and skated about the room on its muzzle, uttering strangled squeaks of delight. Growing tired of this at last, the Scotty, whose name was Filthy McNasty, began thumping its head on the floor with the apparent intention of dashing out its brains, if any."
Adorable.
The Voice of the Lobster, 1 star
Misogynistic.
"At the first convenient doorway McDuff paused and looked at Ao. She was worth looking at. She stood in the doorway, thinking of nothing at all. She didn't have to think of anything. She was too beautiful."
… (more)
If hillbilly mutant Atlanteans are your cup of tea you're going to love Henry Kuttner's Hogben family in The Hogben Chronicles. They don't refer to Atlantis much anymore because they're trying to keep a low profile in the "Kaintuck" hills. A lack of formal education doesn't seem to limit anyone except when it comes to their English language skills and consuming corn likker since they've built everything from a nuclear reactor to a cloning machine in their backyard out of junk (along with the usual hillbilly rusty junk). Oh, and Paw is in a gunny sack in the basement, Grandpaw lives in the attic, and the 300 pound "baby" lives in a sort of aquarium tank.
This series of five interconnected stories were written in the 1940s in pulp Thrilling Stories type magazines. They have never been collected before. I wasn't sure I'd really like these since I'm not big on overt sf humor, but these were so bizarre, almost surrealistic at times, that they kept me going and I read them all in one sitting. The first story is kind of weak but the other four are very good. There is a forward by Neil Gaiman, apparently a big Hogbens fan, and an afterword by F. Paul Wilson, also a big fan.
The stories are narrated by Saunk Hogben so the prose is Kentucky mountain hillbilly. Everything is driven by plot although we get to see the main characters eventually but most are one dimensional except Saunk himself. The Hogbens, unlike the usual Kentucky mountain folk, all have "powers" but I'm not going to spoil that here.
Anyway these are strictly for fun. There is no deep meaning here. Each story is illustrated with a frontspiece and the book is nicely bound and laid out with a nice full color dust jacket. This was a Kickstarter campaign so the press run was limited to 500 signed copies which are all spoken for.
Think of the Addams Family meets The Beverly Hillbillys meets Deliverance and you'll have a vague idea.… (more)
This series of five interconnected stories were written in the 1940s in pulp Thrilling Stories type magazines. They have never been collected before. I wasn't sure I'd really like these since I'm not big on overt sf humor, but these were so bizarre, almost surrealistic at times, that they kept me going and I read them all in one sitting. The first story is kind of weak but the other four are very good. There is a forward by Neil Gaiman, apparently a big Hogbens fan, and an afterword by F. Paul Wilson, also a big fan.
The stories are narrated by Saunk Hogben so the prose is Kentucky mountain hillbilly. Everything is driven by plot although we get to see the main characters eventually but most are one dimensional except Saunk himself. The Hogbens, unlike the usual Kentucky mountain folk, all have "powers" but I'm not going to spoil that here.
Anyway these are strictly for fun. There is no deep meaning here. Each story is illustrated with a frontspiece and the book is nicely bound and laid out with a nice full color dust jacket. This was a Kickstarter campaign so the press run was limited to 500 signed copies which are all spoken for.
Think of the Addams Family meets The Beverly Hillbillys meets Deliverance and you'll have a vague idea.… (more)
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