HENRY KUTTNER SERIES:

The Ego Machine

The Ego Machine

Henry Kuttner

Science Fiction & Fantasy

When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology--don\'t do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible? Celebrated playwright Nicholas Martin didn’t read the small print in his Hollywood options contract. Now he’s facing five years of servitude to a conceited director named Raoul St. Cyr, who’s taken a thoughtful play about Portuguese fishermen and added dancing mermaids. When it seems the plot has changed to include a robot from the future Nicholas looses all hope, but this robot may be just what he needs to win his freedom. The Ego Machine was first published in the May, 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine.
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Man Drowning

Man Drowning

Henry Kuttner

Science Fiction & Fantasy

A powerful and violent crime fiction novel from an iconic author and "one of the major names in science fiction" (The New York Times). Nick Banning was a man drowning in a land of far horizons, a land that had all the vigor sucked out of it ages ago by the Arizona sun. But it wasn't the blasting heat of an Arizona desert that bothered Nick—it was the heat of his own emotions, his desire for Sherry, the woman who had told him no. But Nick was winding up, faster and faster. He meant to have Sherry—or else. "[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas." —Ray Bradbury
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Bypass to Otherness (1961) SSC

Bypass to Otherness (1961) SSC

Henry Kuttner

Science Fiction & Fantasy

A solid collection of science fiction stories from the mid-1940s which can be divided into two main groups: tales of mutations induced by nuclear war, leading to the next step in human evolution, and plain humourous tales. The former are very much products of their time (and nothing wrong with that), with the atomic bomb at the forefront of everybody's consciousness in the immediate post-war era. Content: Absalom Originally appeared in Starting Stories, Fall 1946 Call Him Demon Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1946 Cold War Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Oct 1949 Dark Angel – Starting Stories, March 1946 Housing Problem 1944 Reprinted from Charm. Little Things Originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1946 Nothing but Gingerbread Left 1946 . Reprinted from Astounding Fiction The Piper’s Son 1945 . Reprinted from Astounding Science Fiction  
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Bypass To Otherness

Bypass To Otherness

Henry Kuttner

Science Fiction & Fantasy

My Conversion A solid collection of science fiction stories from the mid-1940s which can be divided into two main groups: tales of mutations induced by nuclear war, leading to the next step in human evolution, and plain humourous tales. The former are very much products of their time (and nothing wrong with that), with the atomic bomb at the forefront of everybody's consciousness in the immediate post-war era.  
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Where the World is Quiet

Where the World is Quiet

Henry Kuttner

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Marion Zimmer Bradley is among many authors who have cited Kuttner as an influence. Her novel The Bloody Sun is dedicated to him. The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully assembling powdery relics of ancient races and civilizations. But White\'s lone Peruvian odyssey was most unusual. Fra Rafael saw strange things, impossible things. Then there was the mystery of the seven young virginal girls of Huascan. . . .
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