THE HOGBEN CHRONICLES
Long-time readers know I’m a big proponent of readers and writers knowing the genre’s history in order to enjoy and create the genre’s future. One of the biggest pleasures of my now fifteen-year career is the number of teens and twenty-somethings who’ve come up to me at conventions, signings, or online and told me they’ve discovered William Hope Hodgson, Fritz Lieber, Richard Laymon, Karl Edward Wagner, Skipp & Spector, Manly Wade Wellman, etc. through my writing about them.
Henry Kuttner is another of those authors on my required reading list, especially his “Hogben” series of stories. Some friends of mine have finally collected all of these seminal tales in one volume, with all proceeds going to Kuttner’s estate. The project is on Kickstarter right now. I strongly urge you to take part in this, even if you can only donate a dollar. This is an important book and vital history. But don’t take my word for it. Here are Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore to help twist your arm:
THE HOGBEN CHRONICLES
edited by Pierce Watters and F. Paul Wilson
Introduction by Neil Gaiman
with Art by Steve Parkhouse
The editors and Mr. Gaiman have agreed to sign 600 copies of the various editions.
Beginning today, Borderlands Press is celebrating its first project with Kickstarter! We would like to give you a chance to participate before we advertise to the general public on April 13th.
Thanks you for all your support over the years. This one will be something you will treasure.
Our book is a celebration of a superbly talented writer, highlighting some of the most unique and memorable tales in the SF/fantasy genres. He died WAY too young at the age of 43, and we’ve made sure to gain the full cooperation of the Kuttner estate so that his heirs will share in the proceeds.
He was a very special writer. Here’s what Alan Moore ( From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman) says of him:
“Henry Kuttner was one of fantasy and science fiction’s most accomplished and intelligent voices, as well as one of its least celebrated. His Hogben family stories are among the most original and certainly the funniest works in the genre, and to have them all finally collected in one volume is nothing short of a dream come true for genuine devotees of imaginative literature. Read this at once, and if you’ve read it already, then read it again. A masterpiece.”
—Alan Moore
To learn more, click this link.
