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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Reading The Best of Henry Kuttner, a collection of short stories. He is another of the long-lost great visionary sci-fi writers.... Never read anything by him. Never heard of him, but cool cool stuff.
He wrote at the same time as the great hard sci fi authors and did so with a humor and a weirdness that predates by decades the cyberpunk sci-fi of the late 70's early 80's. good stuff. |
More Lovecraft-influenced American 50's weird-fi! Excellent choice! Check out a Wikipedia entry on Kuttner while you're at it. He wrote hand in hand with his wife, apparently more than I realized. It's likely that just about everything he wrote was a collaboration with her, though she has given him sole credit for some of his more successful stories. Not sure I buy it, but whatever... I think his life would make for a great film, with such an intensely personal relationship happening out of sight of the readers and industry of the time.