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The Best of Henry Kuttner: A Collection of Short Stories Kindle Edition
In seventeen classic stories, Henry Kuttner creates a unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angry aliens. These stories include “Mimsy Were the Borogoves”—the inspiration for New Line Cinema’s major motion picture The Last Mimzy—as well as “Two-Handed Engine,” “The Proud Robot,” “The Misguided Halo,” “The Voice of the Lobster,” “Exit the Professor,” “The Twonky,” “A Gnome There Was,” “The Big Night,” “Nothing But Gingerbread Left,” “The Iron Standard,” “Cold War,” “Or Else,” “Endowment Policy,” “Housing Problem,” “What You Need,” and “Absalom.”
“[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds—full of ideas.” —Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 421
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDiversion Books
- Publication dateAugust 19, 2014
- File size6987 KB
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- ASIN : B07H18SQYJ
- Publisher : Diversion Books (August 19, 2014)
- Publication date : August 19, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 6987 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 484 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #728,163 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,106 in U.S. Short Stories
- #1,281 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #2,319 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
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If you liked this, read Robots Have No Tails. Its's wonderful.
As for the Mimsy..don't bother watching that ridiculously bad excuse for a movie, it sucked. I think I watched maybe 20 minutes of it.. Read the story, it is absolutely chilling.
He writes with warmth, humor, and most of all with fun for the reader in mind. His ideas, there were many and original, influenced those in the genre that wrote after him.
He was a mentor to Bradbury, and he put emphasis on telling a story for fun, without ever being preachy or the kind of writer that says my pen is bigger than yours. He wrote because he loved it.
We are lucky enough that he did.
This anthology includes 17 short stories, all in the 10-30 page range with most averaging around 15 pages in length. None of his early Lovecraft Mythos work is here, but a lot of his great stuff afterwards is.
Some of my favorites are
Mimsy Were the Borogoves
The Twonky
What You Need (Twilight Zone episode of same name was based on this story)
A Gnome There Was
The Voice of the Lobster
Enjoy!
If you like old school sci fi, filled with humor and pathos and brilliance, get this book. If only for The Proud Robot and Nothing But Gingerbread Left, it's totally worth the price.
Condition of my copy...well cared for original
Content - great stuff!
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Overall, I can't think of one story I was disappointed by. Great stuff!