Henry Kuttner




Henry Kuttner

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born
April 07, 1915

died
February 04, 1958

gender
male

place of birth
Los Angeles, California, The United States

genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


about this author

Henry Kuttner 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 1940'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 fic...more




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The Last Mimzy & Other Stories... The Last Mimzy & Other Stories Originally published as The Best of Henry Kuttner
by Henry Kuttner
avg rating 4.02 — 53 ratings — published 1975
3 editions
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Fury Fury
by Henry Kuttner
avg rating 3.44 — 16 ratings — published 1947
7 editions
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The Book of Iod The Book of Iod (Cthulhu Cycle Books)
by Henry Kuttner
avg rating 3.57 — 14 ratings — published 1995
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The Proud Robot The Proud Robot
by Henry Kuttner
avg rating 4.67 — 9 ratings — published 1983
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Return to Otherness Return to Otherness
by Henry Kuttner
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 1962
3 editions
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The Dark World The Dark World
by Henry Kuttner
avg rating 3.36 — 11 ratings — published 1946
3 editions
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Elak of Atlantis Elak of Atlantis
by Henry Kuttner
avg rating 3.20 — 10 ratings — published 1985
2 editions
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Robots Have No Tails Robots Have No Tails
by Henry Kuttner, F. Paul Wilson
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2009
2 editions
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Bypass to Otherness Bypass to Otherness
by Henry Kuttner
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 1961
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Startling Worlds of Henry Kutt... Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner
by Henry Kuttner
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1987
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"He had passed too far beyond this world ever to touch it except in the ceremonies of the Golden Window. Man, demon, god, mutation into namelessness--whatever he had been, he had kept but one link to the Dark World which spawned him. A link enshrined in the Sword Called Llyr. By that talisman he could return for the sacrifices that fed him, return for the great ceremonies of the Sealing that had made me half his own. But only by that talisman."
Henry Kuttner (The Dark World)
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