Henry Kuttner was one of the first science fiction writers I explored in my early teenage years. At my advanced age, I’m not exactly sure where he fell. Heinlein was number one and Andre Norton was number two. I can’t speculate from there, but there were so many others during that period. I remember Kuttner became a favorite rather quickly.
So when Scott Cupp showcased this one on his Missions Unknown blog for Forgotten Books one recent Friday, I knew it was one I wanted to get. He mentions finding only one under fifty dollars on the used sites, so I went looking. I did find one considerably under fifty(not that much more than the original cover price of a twenty year old book), so I grabbed it. It came Monday and I was delighted. It was an unread copy and I dived in immediately, shifting aside the book I was currently reading.
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The book was as good as advertised.
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Which work of Kuttner’s (or Kuttner and Moore writing together) should I read first?
Joachim, THE DARK WORLD would be a good place to start. Planet Stories has a nice edition worth the price. There are some cheap editions on the used sites as well.
He wrote under a variety of names and some speculate that there may be works of his still hidden under some pen name.
A lot of his stuff, as well as hers I’d imagine, were written together, sometimes without credits attached to the stories.
I’m sure Randy Johnson will have some picks. Vintage Season and The Dark World come quickly to mind… because, but not only because, both have been available in several printings over the years. By coincidence, I’m reading the second right now. It originally appeared in the pulp Startling Stories (Summer ’46), was an Ace Books paperback in 1964, was part of the Questar Science Fantasy omnibus paperback The Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner(1987), and is now in a Planet Stories trade paperback edition with a very attractive cover.
Ah, “great minds” you see, Joachim! Randy must have been writing even as I was.
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Was a Kuttner day. I see James Reasoner also posted on a Kuttner book. I don’t have this one.
And don’t be afraid of the fine Ballantine/Del Rey samplers THE BEST OF HENRY KUTTNER (reissued a few back to cash in, ha, on the mezzo-mezzo film version of his famous “Mimsy Were the Borogoves,” THE LAST MIMZY) and THE BEST OF C. L. MOORE.
Definitely magazine-writer day.
Haffner Press is bringing plenty of Henry Kuttner back into print. I’m sadden that such a talented writer died so young.
And that Catherine Moore basically chose not to write much more after her husband died.
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