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
The Twonky 12 copies
Private Eye 9 copies
The Children's Hour 7 copies
See You Later 6 copies
The Graveyard Rats And Other Stories 6 copies
Two-Handed Engine [short story] 6 copies
Cold War 6 copies
Nothing But Gingerbread Left 5 copies
The Big Night 5 copies
Carry Me Home 4 copies
Piggy Bank 4 copies
The Cure 4 copies
This is the House — Author — 4 copies
The Voice Of The Lobster 4 copies
Home Is The Hunter — Author — 4 copies
Housing Problem 4 copies
The Dark Angel 3 copies
As you were 3 copies
Swing Your Lady 3 copies
The Lion and the Unicorn [novelette] 3 copies
The Sky Is Falling 3 copies
Year Day 3 copies
Endowment Policy [short story] 3 copies
Kuttner times three 3 copies
Atomic 3 copies
Noon 3 copies
Project 3 copies
Time Enough 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
Beyond The Phoenix 3 copies
Masquerade [Short Story] 2 copies
Avengers Of Space 2 copies
No Man’s World (short story) 2 copies
The Comedy of Eras (short story) 2 copies
Man About Time (short story) 2 copies
Reverse Atom (short story) 2 copies
World Without Air 2 copies
Suicide Squad 2 copies
The Elixir Of Invisibility 2 copies
The Disinherited 2 copies
We Guard the Black Planet 2 copies
World's Pharoah 2 copies
The Star Parade 2 copies
Vénus et Titan 2 copies
All is Illusion 2 copies
Trouble on Titan 2 copies
Improbability 2 copies
The Bloodless Peril 2 copies
Pegasus (short story) 2 copies
Open Secret 2 copies
A Gnome There Was [short fiction] 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
The Energy Eaters 2 copies
Dream's End 2 copies
Rain Check 2 copies
We Kill People 2 copies
The Power And The Glory 2 copies
Wild Surmise 2 copies
The Secret Of the Earth Star 2 copies
Startling Stories, March 1940 2 copies
50 Miles Down 2 copies
Near Miss 2 copies
Startling Stories, November 1940 2 copies
Margin For Error 2 copies
Promised Land 1 copy
The Odyssey of Yiggar Throlg 1 copy
Way of the Gods 1 copy
Towers of Death 1 copy
The Prisoner in the Skull 1 copy
Remember Tomorrow 1 copy
Raider of the Spaceways 1 copy
The Dweller in the Tomb 1 copy
Science is Golden! 1 copy
I Am Eden 1 copy
A God Named Kroo 1 copy
The Frog 1 copy
Tropic Hell 1 copy
Ffuria 1 copy
We Shall Come Back 1 copy
Księżycowe Hollywood 1 copy
The Greeks had a War for It 1 copy
The Man-eating Lizards — Author — 1 copy
Pragaištingas laivas 1 copy
Khogbeny, gnomy, demony, a takzhe roboty, inoplanetiane i prochie zakhvatyvaiuschie nepriiatnosti (2006) 1 copy
Lord of the Storm 1 copy
Vénus et le Titan 1 copy
The Crystal Circe 1 copy
Chameleon Man 1 copy
Czego ci trzeba 1 copy
Elak z Atlantydy 1 copy
The Land of Time to Come 1 copy
I Am the Wolf 1 copy
The Invaders 1 copy
When the Earth Lived 1 copy
[as yet unknown] 1 copy
Iedomīgais robots : [stāsti] 1 copy
Gli occhi di medusa 1 copy
Fury, etc 1 copy
The Lifestone (novelette) 1 copy
Threshold (short story) 1 copy
The Shining Man (novelette) 1 copy
The best of Kuttner 1 copy
Seikkailujen sankareita 1 copy
Raiders of the Spaceways 1 copy
The Devil We Know 1 copy
Later Than You Think 1 copy
Paradise Street 1 copy
Corpus Delicti 1 copy
Rite Of Passage 1 copy
Grab Bag 1 copy
Ghost 1 copy
Fairy Chessmen 2 1 copy
Fairy Chessmen 1 1 copy
Wet Magic 1 copy
Grief Of Bagdad 1 copy
The Little Things 1 copy
Golden Apple 1 copy
The Devil's Brood 1 copy
Bamboo Death 1 copy
The Wolf of Aragon 1 copy
Trophy 1 copy
Time to Kill 1 copy
The Curse of the Crocodile 1 copy
The Visitors 1 copy
Percy the Pirate 1 copy
The Mad Virus 1 copy
Hands Across the Void 1 copy
The Dark Heritage 1 copy
World’s End 1 copy
Extrapolation 1 copy
Lögn eller mord 1 copy
The Valley Of the Flame 1 copy
The Skit-Tree Planet 1 copy
Dictator of the Americas 1 copy
We Are the Dead 1 copy
Before I Wake 1 copy
The Room of Souls 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 — 915 copies
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 9: Robots (1989) — Contributor — 114 copies
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Contributor — 102 copies
They Came From Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1980) — Contributor — 94 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction - Fourth Series (1984) — Contributor — 92 copies
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contributor — 92 copies
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Contributor — 88 copies
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 — 61 copies
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Contributor — 56 copies
Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2019) — Contributor — 31 copies
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007) — Contributor — 28 copies
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Contributor — 27 copies
Transformations: Understanding World History Through Science Fiction (1973) — Contributor — 25 copies
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Contributor — 15 copies
Science Fiction Omnibus: The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949, 1950 (1952) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Lure of Atlantis: Strange Tales from the Sunken Continent: 40 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Contributor — 10 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 30 Number 5, November 1937 — Contributor — 4 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 6, June 1938 — Contributor — 3 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 31 Number 2, February 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 1, July 1937 — 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 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
Kuttner, Henry. Mutant. 1953. E-book ed., Gateway, 2013.
A nuclear exchange has created a viable mutation of hairless telepaths called “Baldies.” Mutant, by Henry Kuttner, describes the Baldies as a self-conscious minority community, most of whom wear wigs in public to hide their telepathy. They feel superior to non-telepaths, but they know they are feared and perhaps envied by non-telepaths. These themes are as timely as ever, but the stories are also creatures of their time. One can imagine them as episodes on Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock. They share some themes with A.E. van Vogt’s Slan (1940), and they look forward to such works as Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” (1961). Mutant, a “fix-up” novel based on short stories that appeared first in Astounding, was originally published under the pseudonym “Lewis Padgett,” a name often used for works Kuttner co-authored with his wife, C. L. Moore. Later editions are usually attributed to Kuttner alone. It is still worth a read. 4 stars.… (more)
A nuclear exchange has created a viable mutation of hairless telepaths called “Baldies.” Mutant, by Henry Kuttner, describes the Baldies as a self-conscious minority community, most of whom wear wigs in public to hide their telepathy. They feel superior to non-telepaths, but they know they are feared and perhaps envied by non-telepaths. These themes are as timely as ever, but the stories are also creatures of their time. One can imagine them as episodes on Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock. They share some themes with A.E. van Vogt’s Slan (1940), and they look forward to such works as Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” (1961). Mutant, a “fix-up” novel based on short stories that appeared first in Astounding, was originally published under the pseudonym “Lewis Padgett,” a name often used for works Kuttner co-authored with his wife, C. L. Moore. Later editions are usually attributed to Kuttner alone. It is still worth a read. 4 stars.… (more)
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."
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