Henry Kuttner

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Henry Kuttner (born April 7, 1915 in Los Angeles , California ; died February 4, 1958 in Santa Monica , California) was an American writer of science fiction , fantasy, and horror stories. He is best known for the numerous stories he wrote in close collaboration with his wife CL Moore .

Life

Kuttner's family were of German, Jewish, English, Irish and Polish origins. One of the grandfathers is said to have been a rabbi . His father Henry Kuttner was a bookseller in San Francisco, where Henry grew up with two older brothers. The father died when Kuttner was 5 years old. The mother Anne Kuttner, née Lewis, ran a pension for a time and struggled to earn a living. When Kuttner started high school, the family moved back to Los Angeles and after graduating, Kuttner first worked in a relative's literary agency.

Kuttner was fascinated by fantasy from a young age, had read the stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs and discovered the science fiction of Pulp magazines at the age of 12 . At the age of 16, in August 1931, he had published a story under the pseudonym Bertram W. Williams in Jungle Stories , a magazine with Tarzan- style jungle stories published by William Clayton, who started Astounding Stories of Super-Science in 1930 would have. Later, Kuttner's interest turned to weird fiction and he became one of the numerous correspondents for HP Lovecraft . His first publication in the field of fantasy was the poem Ballad of the Gods , which appeared in Weird Tales in February 1936 . A first horror story, The Graveyard Rats , followed in March there. This was valued by some readers as quite extraordinary and one did not trust a newcomer to the genre. Ironically, Kuttner of all people, who used pseudonyms in his writing career to such an extent that his real name remained relatively unknown, was taken to be the pseudonym of a better known author with his first published under real name. When it became public in 1943 that author names such as "Lewis Padgett" and "Lawrence O'Donnell" were Kuttner's pseudonyms, there was correspondingly great astonishment. But Kuttner was still at the beginning and from today's point of view at least still very much in the shadow of Lovecraft, whom he unrestrainedly imitated in his early stories such as The Devil Rides (1936) and The Secret of Kralitz (1936) - and in the case of The Eater of Souls (1937) Lovecraft imitating Lord Dunsany .

But Kuttner soon stepped out of this shadow by joining the Los Angeles Chapter of the Science Fiction League in 1936 and leaving the realms of supernatural horror in Lovecraft's style by publishing I, the Vampire in Weird Tales in 1937 , where a vampire appears as a popular figure . This was followed by several excursions into the areas of humorous science fiction ( Hollywood on the Moon , 1938) and heroic fantasy in the style of Howard's Conan the Cimmerian ( Thunder in the Dawn , 1938, as well as three other stories about the hero Elak of Atlantis) .

During this time, Kuttner began to increasingly use pseudonyms, on the one hand because of two stories in Marvel Science Stories 1938, which - by today's standards harmless - were somewhat more sexual and contained some nudity, which led to angry reader protests, on the other hand, accidentally or out of practicality For reasons, at that time the rule still applied that an author could only contribute one story per magazine issue - to get around that, "Keith Hammond" was created. The community pseudonym for collaborations with Arthur K. Barnes was "Kelvin Kent", and so on. Finally, "Lewis Padgett" was adopted by Kuttner when, after the outbreak of war, numerous authors of John W. Campbell's Astounding did military service and Campbell sought to reactivate writers who had taken a back seat. Since the name Kuttner should be avoided because of the sex stories mentioned, Kuttner chose a combination of his mother's maiden name and that of his wife's grandmother. The Kuttner couple used a total of 19 different pseudonyms.

Through the circle of Lovecraft correspondents, he had come into contact in 1936 with CL Moore, an author whom Kuttner greatly admired. He was all the more surprised when it turned out that the person behind the initials "CL" was a woman, not entirely unusual for the time, but most of the women who write SF disguised themselves with initials or pseudonyms , similar to Catherine Lucile Moore . In 1938 the two met for the first time and a friendship developed that was continued with letters and occasional meetings - Moore lived in Indianapolis and Kuttner in New York at the time . He loathed the city, but New York's many publishers had made him move to the east coast. As early as 1937 there was a literary encounter in the form of a collaboration, Quest of the Star Stone , in which the two best-known protagonists of Moore, the space warrior Northwest Smith and the red-haired warrior Jirel von Joiry meet in a crossover . In this otherwise not in every respect successful story Northwest Smith sings - with "an amazingly good baritone " - the song "The green hills of the earth", the one with the verses

To see across the darkness
The green hills of Earth

ends. The memorable verse became the title of one of Robert A. Heinlein's best-known works , the 1951 collection The Green Hills of the Earth with the cover story.

On June 7, 1940, Moore and Kuttner married in New York. Looking back at her physically unimpressive husband, Moore said, “Northwest Smith would have been a very boring husband. Henry Kuttner, as his work shows and his friends testify, was wonderfully resourceful, attentive, original in his views and very, very funny. "

The time of the intensive and close cooperation began with the marriage - so close that the two often could no longer say who had written what. All works from the 1940s and 1950s are therefore to be regarded as joint works, the author's name under which they were published can only be a clue, in particular the pseudonyms Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O'Donnell were used jointly. The couple complemented each other and one compensated for each other's weaknesses, so Kuttner was better at getting started, Moore was easier to come to an end, Kuttner was better at developing arcs, Moore was better at writing, and so on.

The special quality and intensity of the collaboration is almost unique. Damon Knight wrote:

“[...] two apparently irreconcilable talents merged. Kuttner's earlier work was clever and somewhat superficial, well constructed but devoid of real substance; Moore had written atmospheric fantasy, suggestive, but a bit thin [...] together they wrote stories in which Kuttner's solidly crafted arcs of storyline carried Moore's poetic richness of images. "

And Barry Malzberg :

“Their styles harmonized completely […] they were the greatest team of authors in the history of literary collaboration. Like Gilbert & Sullivan , Frazier & Ali , the 1978 Red Sox and the Yankees , they brought out the best in each other. "

The couple lived in New York for about a year, then moved to Laguna Beach , California. In the 1940s, Kuttner also wrote a number of scripts for comics , particularly for the superhero Green Lantern . When the war broke out, Kuttner was not suitable for combat missions due to a heart murmur and was therefore stationed as a military medic in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey , from 1942 , while Catherine lived nearby in Red Bank .

After the war, the Kuttners moved to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York State , where they bought a house. In 1948, Kuttner's heart disease caused the couple to move back to Laguna Beach in the milder climate of California. Kuttner was able to study with a scholarship based on the GI Bill at the University of Southern California , where he made his bachelor's degree in 1957 and earned an honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa , and Moore also took up studies. With the exception of his dissertation, he had also met all the requirements for a master’s degree when he died in his sleep in 1958 at the age of only 42, presumably of a heart attack .

In the years after 1955, Kuttner and Moore's literary production was significantly reduced. You had written a number of detective novels with the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Michael Gray. Allegedly, at least two of the four novels are supposed to be the work of ghostwriters. According to Barry Malzberg, Kuttner and Moore intended to get out of the business of writing for pulp magazines altogether and wanted to work as psychotherapists in the future. All of this is not entirely clear and conclusive, for example there were contracts for scripts that Moore still fulfilled after Kuttner's death. In addition, although Kuttner was aiming for a master's degree in psychology , he had also taken physics lectures, allegedly to improve his scientific background as a science fiction author.

Moskowitz summed up:

“Who was the real Henry Kuttner? We will never know. The man was disciplined, technically brilliant, incredibly versatile and gifted - to his detriment. Adaptable, tempted to adapt, suffering from a pronounced feeling of inferiority, he was not ready to stand on his own two feet, but felt that he had to rely on others: HP Lovecraft , Robert E. Howard , Stanley G. Weinbaum , A. Merritt , John Collier , AE van Vogt and - of course - CL Moore. "

In 2004, Kuttner and Moore posthumously received the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award for forgotten or no longer adequately appreciated science fiction authors.

bibliography

Novels
  • A Million Years to Conquer (1940, also as: The Creature from Beyond Infinity , 1968)
    • English: The golden spaceship. Ullstein 2000 # 109 (3212), 1976, 3-548-03212-5.
  • Earth's Last Citadel (1943, with CL Moore)
    • English: The fountain of immortality. Moewig (Terra # 450), 1966.
  • The Brass Ring (1946, with CL Moore, also as Murder in Brass , 1946, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Valley of the Flame (1946, as Keith Hammond)
  • The Dark World (1946)
    • English: Lord of the Dark World. Pabel (Terra Fantasy # 6), 1975.
  • Fury (1947, with CL Moore, also as Destination: Infinity , 1958)
    • German: All the time in the world. Moewig (Terra special volume # 53/54) 1962. Also: Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5716, 1979, 3-426-05716-6.
  • The Day He Died (1947, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • The Mask of Circe (1948, with CL Moore)
  • The Portal in the Picture (1949, also as Beyond Earth's Gates , 1954, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • The Time Axis (1949)
  • The Well of the Worlds (1952, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Man Drowning (1952)
  • The Murder of Ann Avery (1956)
  • The Murder of Eleanor Pope (1956)
  • Murder of a Mistress (1957)
  • Murder of a Wife (1958)
Collections
  • A Gnome There Was and Other Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1950, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and the Fairy Chessmen (1951, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Robots Have No Tails (1952, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: The proud robot. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 96), 1959. The world belongs to me. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 99) 1959. Also as: Science-Fiction-Stories 56. Ullstein 2000 # 107 (3202), 1976, ISBN 3-548-03202-8 .
  • Mutant (1953, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: The mutants. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3065, 1966.
  • Ahead of Time (1953)
  • Line to Tomorrow (1954, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • No Boundaries (1955, with CL Moore)
  • Bypass to Otherness (1961)
  • Return to Otherness (1962)
    • German: The Crazy Inventor and Other Stories. Moewig (Terra # 444), 1966.
  • The Best of Kuttner 1 (1965)
  • The Best of Kuttner 2 (1966)
  • The Best of Henry Kuttner (1975, also as: The Last Mimzy: Stories , 2007)
  • Clash by Night and Other Stories (1980, with CL Moore)
  • Chessboard Planet and Other Stories (1983, with CL Moore)
  • Elak of Atlantis (1985)
  • Prince Raynor (1987)
  • Kuttner Times Three (1988)
  • Secret of the Earth Star and Others (1991)
  • The Book of Iod (1995)
  • Two-Handed Engine (2005, with CL Moore)
  • Thunder Jim Wade: The Complete Series (2008)
  • Don't Look Now and Two Others (2009)
  • The Graveyard Rats and Other Stories (2010)
  • Detour to Otherness (2010, with CL Moore)
  • Terror in the House: The Early Kuttner, Volume One (2010)
  • Henry Kuttner (2011)
  • Thunder in the Void (2011)
  • The Hogben Chronicles (2013)
  • The Watcher at the Door: The Early Henry Kuttner, Volume Two (2016)

German compilations:

  • with CL Moore, as Henry Kuttner: Conversation from the Future and Other Stories. Moewig (Terra Nova # 143), 1970.
  • as Henry Kuttner / Lewis Padgett: Science Fiction Stories 57 '. Ullstein 2000 # 109 (3212), 1976, ISBN 3-548-03212-5 .
Short stories
  • The Monkey Wrench (1931, as Bertram W. Williams)
  • The Graveyard Rats (1936)
    • German: Grabräuber. In: HW Mommers , Arnulf D. Krauß (Ed.): 22 horror stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 16), 1966.
  • Bamboo Death (1936)
  • The Devil Rides (1936)
  • The Secret of Kralitz (1936)
    • English: The secret of Kralitz Castle. In: Frank Festa (ed.): Omen: Das Horror-Journal, No. 2. Festa (Festa Omen # 1702), 2005, ISBN 3-935822-89-8 .
  • Power of the Snake (1936)
  • Coffins for Six (1936)
  • It Walks by Night (1936)
  • Laughter of the Dead (1936)
  • Terror in the House (1937)
  • The Eater of Souls (1937)
  • The Faceless Fiend (1937, as KH Maepenn)
  • I, the Vampire (1937)
    • German: I, the vampire. In: Frank Festa (ed.): Because blood is life: stories of vampires. Festa (Festa Nosferatu # 1416), 2007, ISBN 978-3-86552-064-7 .
  • The Dweller in the Tomb (1937)
  • Nightmare Woman (1937)
  • We Are the Dead (1937)
  • The Salem Horror (1937)
    • English: The horror of Salem. In: Frank Festa (ed.): The Cthulhu Myth: 1917–1975. Festa (HP Lovecraft's Library of Secrets # 2611), 2003, ISBN 3-935822-51-0 .
  • My Brother, The Ghoul (1937)
  • The Black Kiss (1937, with Robert Bloch)
  • I Am the Wolf (1937)
  • Raider of the Spaceways (1937)
  • The Jest of Droom-Avista (1937)
  • Four Frightful Men (1937)
  • Terror on the Stage (1937)
  • When the Earth Lived (1937)
  • Lord of the Lions (1937)
  • Quest of the Starstone (1937, with CL Moore)
    • German: The secret of the star stone. In: CL Moore: Jirel, the Amazon. Festa (Festa Dark Fantasy # 1102), 2002, ISBN 3-935822-44-8 .
  • The Case of Herbert Thorp (1937)
  • The Bloodless Peril (1937, as Will Garth)
  • Invasion from the Fourth (1938)
  • Orsini's Hands knife (1938)
  • World's End (1938)
  • The Graveyard Curse (1938)
  • The Shadow on the Screen (1938)
  • The Unresting Dead (1938)
  • Hell's Archangel (1938)
  • Hollywood on the Moon (1938)
  • My Name Is Death (1938)
  • Thunder in the Dawn (1938)
  • Devil's Masquerade (1938)
  • Spawn of Dagon (1938)
  • Avengers of Space (1938)
  • Dictator of the Americas (1938, as James Hall)
  • Doom World (1938)
  • The Dark Heritage (1938, as Robert O. Kenyon)
  • The Disinherited (1938)
  • Beyond the Phoenix (1938)
  • The Time Trap (1938)
  • Hands Across the Void (1938, as Will Garth)
  • The Star Parade (1938)
  • The Truth About Goldfish (1939)
  • The Frog (1939)
  • The Invaders (1939, as Keith Hammond)
  • The Transgressor (1939)
  • Beyond Annihilation (1939)
  • Cursed Be the City (1939)
    • English: The curse of the city. In: Lin Carter (ed.): The magic gardens. Pabel (Terra Fantasy # 45), 1978.
  • Hydra (1939)
  • The Bells of Horror (1939, also as Keith Hammond)
  • The Watcher at the Door (1939)
  • "Telepathy Is News!" (1939, as Paul Edmonds)
  • The Body and the Brain (1939, with Robert Bloch, also as Keith Hammond)
  • The Hunt (1939)
  • Roman Holiday (1939, with Arthur K. Barnes, as Kelvin Kent)
  • The Citadel of Darkness (1939)
  • The Curse of the Crocodile (1939, as Bertram W. Williams)
  • The Misguided Halo (1939)
    • German: The misguided halo. In: Donald Roynald Bensen (ed.): Street of Damnation. Pabel (Terra Fantasy # 66), 1979. Also in: Isaac Asimov , Martin H. Greenberg (Ed.): The best stories from 1939. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6727), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6727-X .
  • The Energy Eaters (1939, with Arthur K. Barnes)
  • Towers of Death (1939)
  • Suicide Squad (1939)
  • The Grip of Death (1939, with Robert Bloch)
  • World's Pharaoh (1939, as Kelvin Kent)
  • Murder for Fun (1939)
  • Death Is Where You Find It (1939)
  • The Devil's Brood (1939)
  • Corpse Castle (1939)
  • Death Has Three Sisters (1940, as Kelvin Kent)
  • The Lifestone (1940, as Paul Edmonds)
  • When New York Vanished (1940)
  • All Is Illusion (1940, with CL Moore)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1940)
    • English: Flowers from Venus. In: Sam Moskowitz (ed.): The faces of the future. Pabel (Terra Taschenbuch # 220), 1973. Also as: Beauty and the Beast. In: Michel Parry (ed.): King Kong's rivals. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 76), 1979.
  • Science Is Golden (1940, with Arthur K. Barnes, as Kelvin Kent)
  • 50 Miles Down (1940, as Peter Horn)
  • Pegasus (1940)
  • The Seven Sleepers (1940, with Arthur K. Barnes)
  • The Shining Man (1940, as Noel Gardner)
  • Dr. Cyclops (1940)
  • Improbability (1940, as Paul Edmonds)
  • The Mad Virus (1940, as Paul Edmonds)
  • The Room of Souls (1940, as Keith Hammond)
  • Time to Kill (1940)
  • No Man's World (1940)
  • The Seal of Sin (1940)
  • World Without Air (1940)
  • The Comedy of Eras (1940, as Kelvin Kent)
  • Man About Time (1940, as Kelvin Kent)
  • The Elixir of Invisibility (1940)
  • The Uncanny Power of Edwin Cobalt (1940, as Noel Gardner)
  • To Boatl and Back (1940)
  • Reverse Atom (1940)
  • Threshold (1940)
  • Dragon Moon (1941)
    • German: Drachenmond. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 20. Ullstein 2000 # 35 (2930), 1973, ISBN 3-548-02930-2 .
  • Remember Tomorrow (1941)
  • Hercules Muscles In (1941, as Kelvin Kent)
  • Hunger After Dark (1941)
  • Monsters of the Atom (1941)
  • The Land of Time to Come (1941)
  • The Touching-Point (1941, also as Edward J. Bellin)
  • Thunder Jim Wade (1941)
  • The Hills of Gold (1941)
  • Tube to Nowhere (1941)
  • A Skull Has No Ears (1941)
  • The Poison People (1941, as Charles Stoddard)
  • The Wolf of Aragon (1941)
  • The Devil We Know (1941, with CL Moore)
  • The Devil's Glacier (1941)
  • South of Soerabaya (1941)
  • The Tree of Life (1941, as Paul Edmonds)
  • Waters of Death (1941, as Charles Stoddard)
  • A Gnome There Was (1941, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: Once upon a time there was a dwarf. In: Isaac Asimov (ed.): The best stories from 1941. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6713), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6713-X .
  • Chameleon Man (1941)
  • Red Gem of Mercury (1941)
  • The Old Army Game (1941)
  • Design for Dreaming (1942)
  • Later Than You Think (1942)
  • Silent Eden (1942)
  • The Infinite Moment (1942)
  • Masquerade (1942)
  • Dames Is Poison (1942, as Kelvin Kent)
  • False Dawn (1942)
  • The Crystal Circe (1942)
  • Deadlock (1942, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: question and answer. In: Martin Greenberg (Ed.): The robots and us. Moewig (Terra special volume # 50), 1962.
  • Secret of the Earth Star (1942)
  • War-Gods of the Void (1942)
  • The Twonky (1942, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: The Twonky. In: Conversation from the Future and Other Stories. 1970. Also in: Peter Haining (Ed.): Dangerous antics. Heyne SF&F # 5909, 1997, ISBN 3-453-13343-9 .
  • Compliments of the Author (1942, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Thunder in the Void (1942)
  • We Guard the Black Planet! (1942)
  • Night of Gods (1942, as Paul Edmonds)
  • Piggy Bank (1942, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Too Many Cooks (1942)
  • Nothing But Gingerbread Left (1943, with CL Moore)
  • There Was an Island (1943)
  • Time Locker (1943, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: The hiding place. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 56. 1976.
  • Blue Ice (1943)
  • Mimsy Were the Borogoves (1943, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: Mimsy Were the Borogoves. In: Gotthard Günther (Ed.): Overcoming space and time. Rauch (Rauch's Space Books # 3), 1952. Also as: Gar elump was the Pluckerwank. In: Robert Silverberg , Wolfgang Jeschke (Eds.): Titan 9. Heyne SF&F # 3614, 1978, ISBN 3-453-30522-1 .
  • Soldiers of Space (1943)
  • Wet Magic (1943)
  • Better Than One (1943)
  • Clash by Night (1943, with CL Moore, also as Lawrence O'Donnell)
    • German: Up from the depths. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 14. Ullstein 2000 # 24 (2889), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02889-6 . Also as: decision after the battle. In: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg (eds.): The best stories from 1943. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6724), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6724-5 .
  • Shock (1943, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: shock therapy. In: Conversation from the Future and Other Stories. 1970.
  • Under Your Spell (1943)
  • Corpus Delicti (1943)
  • No Greater Love (1943)
  • Open Secret (1943, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Volluswen (1943)
  • Ghost (1943)
  • Reader, I Hate You! (1943)
  • The World Is Mine (1943, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: The world is mine. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 56. 1976.
  • Problem in Ethics (1943)
  • Endowment Policy (1943, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • The Proud Robot (1943, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: the crazy inventor. In: The Crazy Inventor and Other Stories. 1966. Also called: The vain robot. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 66. Ullstein 2000 # 127 (3323), 1977, ISBN 3-548-03323-7 . Also in: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg (ed.): The best stories from 1943. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6724), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6724-5 . Also as: The self-loving robot. In: Hannes Riffel, Jakob Schmidt (eds.): Pandora, Fall 2009. Shayol, 2009, ISBN 978-3-926126-82-5 .
  • Crypt-City of the Deathless One (1943)
  • Gallegher Plus (1943, as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: Gallegher Plus. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 57. 1976.
  • To Dust Returneth (1943)
  • Music Hath Charms (1943)
  • The Iron Standard (1943, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • A God Named Kroo (1944)
  • Swing Your Lady (1944, as Kelvin Kent)
  • Trophy (1944, as Scott Morgan)
  • The Children's Hour (1944, with CL Moore, also as Lawrence O'Donnell)
    • German: The hour of the children. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 17. Ullstein 2000 # 29 (2905), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02905-1 .
  • The Black Sun Rises (1944)
    • German: Under the black sun. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 42. Ullstein 2000 # 79 (3089), 1974, ISBN 3-548-03089-0 .
  • The Eyes of Thar (1944)
  • Housing Problem (1944, with CL Moore)
  • When the Bough Breaks (1944, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Sea Kissed (1945, with Robert Bloch)
  • The Piper's Son (1945, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Before I Wake ... (1945)
  • Baby Face (1945, with CL Moore)
  • Three Blind Mice (1945, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • The Lion and the Unicorn (1945, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Percy the Pirate (1945)
  • Camouflage (1945, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: Der Transplant. In: Conversation from the Future and Other Stories. 1970. Also in: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 34. Ullstein 2000 # 63 (3029), 1973, ISBN 3-548-03029-7 .
  • What You Need (1945, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: What you need ... In: Conversation from the future and other stories. 1970.
  • Line to Tomorrow (1945, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: Conversation from the future. In: Conversation from the Future and Other Stories. 1970.
  • Sword of Tomorrow (1945)
  • Beggars in Velvet (1945, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • The Fairy Chessmen (1946, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett, also as The Far Reality , 1963, also as Chessboard Planet , 1983)
    • German: dangerous chess game. In: Dangerous Chess Game. 1959. Also called: Stress. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 22. Ullstein 2000 # 39 (2943), 1973, ISBN 3-548-02943-4 .
  • This Is the House (1946, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett, also as Lawrence O'Donnell)
    • English: The bewitched house. In: The Crazy Inventor and Other Stories. 1966. Also called: The Whispering House. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 10. Ullstein 2000 # 15 (2860), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02860-8 .
  • What Hath Me? (1946)
  • The Dark Angel (1946, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • We Kill People (1946, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • The Cure (1946, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Rain Check (1946, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Absalom (1946, with CL Moore)
  • Call Him Demon (1946, with CL Moore, also as Keith Hammond)
    • German: Maybe a demon. In: Terry Carr , Martin Harry Greenberg (eds.): Dream realm of magic: highlights of modern fantasy. Heyne SF&F # 4254, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31262-7 .
  • The Little Things (1946, with CL Moore)
  • Vintage Season (1946, with CL Moore, also as Lawrence O'Donnell)
  • I Am Eden (1946)
  • Time Enough (1946, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Juke-Box (1947, with CL Moore, also as Woodrow Wilson Smith)
  • Trouble on Titan (1947)
  • Project (1947, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Way of the Gods (1947)
  • Jesting Pilot (1947, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: special treatment. In: HJ Alpers (Ed.): Metropolis brennt !. Moewig (Moewig Science Fiction # 3591), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3591-2 .
  • Lands of the Earthquake (1947)
  • The Big Night (1947, as Hudson Hastings)
  • Dream's End (1947, with CL Moore)
  • Atomic! (1947)
  • Dark Dawn (1947, as Keith Hammond)
  • Noon (1947, as Hudson Hastings)
  • Lord of the Storm (1947, as Keith Hammond)
  • Exit the Professor (1947, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Margin for Error (1947, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • The Power and the Glory (1947)
  • Extrapolation (1948)
  • Don't Look Now (1948)
  • Ex Machina (1948, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: Ex Machina. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 56. 1976.
  • Pile of Trouble (1948)
  • Happy Ending (1948, with CL Moore)
  • Private Eye (1949, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: Spürauge. In: Helmuth W. Mommers, Arnulf D. Krauß (Ed.): 10 Science Fiction Kriminal-Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 11), 1965.
  • The Prisoner in the Skull (1949, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • See You Later (1949, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • Cold War (1949, with CL Moore)
  • The Voice of the Lobster (1950)
  • As You Were (1950)
  • The Sky Is Falling (1950, with CL Moore, also as CH Liddell)
    • English: Donner on Mars. In: The Crazy Inventor and Other Stories. 1966.
  • Carry Me Home (1950, with CL Moore, also as CH Liddell)
  • Dead Man's Tale (1950, as EJ Bellin)
  • The Odyssey of Yiggar Throlg (1951, with CL Moore, as CH Liddell)
  • Golden Apple (1951, with CL Moore, as CH Liddell)
  • Android (1951, with CL Moore, also as CH Liddell, also as Those Among Us , 1951)
    • German: The Androide. In: Arnulf D. Krauss, Helmuth W. Mommers (Ed.): 7 Science Fiction Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 17), 1966.
  • We Shall Come Back (1951, with CL Moore, as CH Liddell)
  • The Ego Machine (1952, with CL Moore)
  • Year Day (1953)
  • By These Presents (1953, also as Satan Sends Flowers , 1953)
  • A Wild Surmise (1953, with CL Moore)
  • The Visitors (1953, with CL Moore, also as CH Liddell, also as De Profundis , 1953)
  • Home Is the Hunter (1953, with CL Moore)
    • German: End of the Hunt. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 34. Ullstein 2000 # 63 (3029), 1973, ISBN 3-548-03029-7 .
  • Or Else (1953, with CL Moore)
    • German: Or it bangs !. 1972.
  • Humpty Dumpty (1953, with CL Moore, also as Lewis Padgett)
    • German: witch hunt. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 10. Ullstein 2000 # 15 (2860), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02860-8 .
  • Chapter 6 (1954, with CL Moore, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Where the World is Quiet (1954, as CH Liddell)
  • Home There's No Returning (1955, with CL Moore)
  • Two-Handed Engine (1955, with CL Moore)
    • English: The avenger on the heels. In: Helmuth W. Mommers, Arnulf D. Kraus (eds.): 10 Science Fiction Kriminal-Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 11), 1965.
  • Rite of Passage (1956, with CL Moore)
  • Near Miss (1958, with CL Moore)
  • A Cross of Centuries (1958)
    • English: Tyrell the Redeemer. In: Frederik Pohl, Wolfgang Jeschke (eds.): Titan 4. Heyne SF&F # 3533, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30426-8 .
  • Bridging Material in Mutant (1968)
  • The Grab Bag (1991, with Robert Bloch)
  • The Interplanetary Limited (2011)
  • Man's Conquest of Space or Upside-Down in Time (2016)

literature

Award

  • 2018: Retro Hugo Award for Best Short Story for The Twonky , Der Twonky , from 1942

Web links

Commons : Henry Kuttner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Henry Kuttner  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. Hyperion, 1974, p. 320 f.
  2. ↑ Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. Hyperion, 1974, pp. 319, 322.
  3. ^ "Northwest Smith would have been a very boring man to be married to. Henry Kuttner, as his writing must show and his friends could testify, was wonderfully resourceful, perceptive, fresh in his viewpoints and very, very funny. ”Quoted from: Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. Hyperion, 1974, p. 313.
  4. ↑ Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. Hyperion, 1974, p. 313.
  5. ↑ "[...] two seemingly discordant talents merged. Kuttner's previous stories had been superficial and clever, well constructed but without much content or conviction; Moore had written moody fantasies, meaningful but a little thin […] working together, they began to turn out stories in which the practical solidity of Kuttner's plots seemed to provide a vessel for Moore's poetic imagination. ”Quoted from: Bud Webster: A Kuttner Above the Rest (But Wait, There's Moore!) In: Jim Baen's Universe , June 2009.
  6. ↑ "Their styles meshed totally [...] they were the greatest collaborative writers in the history of collaboration. Like Gilbert & Sullivan, Frazier & Ali, the 1978 Red Sox and Yankees they brought out the best in one another. "Quoted from: Bud Webster: A Kuttner Above the Rest (But Wait, There's Moore!) In: Jim Baen's Universe , June 2009.
  7. ↑ Bud Webster: A Kuttner Above the Rest (But Wait, There's Moore!) In: Jim Baen's Universe , June 2009.
  8. ↑ "Who was the real Henry Kuttner? We will never know. The man had discipline, technical brilliance, immense versatility, and ingenuity, and these betrayed him. Lured by opportunism, suffering from an acute sense of inadequacy, he refused to stand alone, but leaned on others for support: HP Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Stanley G. Weinbaum, A. Merritt, John Collier, AE van Vogt, and , of course, CL Moore. ”Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. Hyperion, 1974, p. 334.
personal data
SURNAME Kuttner, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellin, Edward J. (pen name); Bellin, EJ (pseudonym); Edmonds, Paul (pen name); Gardner, Noel (pseudonym); Garth, Will (pseudonym); Hall, James (pen name); Hammond, Keith (pseudonym); Hastings, Hudson (pseudonym); Horn, Peter (pseudonym); Каттнер ?, Генри (pseudonym); Kent, Kelvin (pseudonym); Kenyon, Robert O. (pen name); Kuttner, H. (pseudonym); Kuttner, Henry (pseudonym); Liddell, CH Jr. (pseudonym); Maepenn, KH (pseudonym); Morgan, Scott (pen name); O'Donnell, Lawrence (pen name); Padgett, Lewis (pen name); Smith, Woodrow Wilson (pen name); Stoddard, Charles (pen name); Williams, Bertram W. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1958
Place of death Santa Monica , California