Most of the stories contained within were co-written with C.L. That doesn’t even include the numerous digital collections and reprints from Kuttner’s impressive catalog that have proliferated at Amazon and B&N over the past 18 months.īut we’re here to talk about the 1975 Del Rey paperback The Best of Henry Kuttner, edited by Lester del Rey (presumably, as he was general editor for the series and the actual editor is uncredited). Seriously, that’s not bad for someone who died over 50 years ago.
He’s been a favorite over at Paizo’s Planet Stories imprint as well, and they’ve brought his classics The Dark World, Elak of Atlantis, and Robots Have No Tails back into print in handsome new editions.Ĭentipede Press and the Science Fiction Book Club produced a massive 915-page retrospective of Moore and Kuttner’s collaborative work in 2006, Two Handed Engine: The Selected Stories of Henry Kuttner and C.L.Moore.Īnd his 1943 short story “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” (co-written with Moore) was made into the feature-length film The Last Mimzy by New Line Cinema in 2007. Moore, and a generous volume of his weird menace tales, Terror in the House: The Early Kuttner, Volume One. In just the last few years, there’s been a re-discovery of this brilliant pulp author. Haffner also published the detailed retrospective Detour to Otherness, a collection of tales co-written with his wife, C.L.
It’s not just us with a recent Kuttner obsession.
Robert E Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian, I discussed The Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner and looked at his Weird Tales classic “ The Graveyard Rats.” And we announced the lucky winners of the giveaway copies of Thunder in the Void, the deluxe collection of Kuttner’s Space Opera tales from Haffner Press. The most recent was just last week, when we listed him as one of the luminaries covered by Bud Webster’s Past Masters.īut before that, Connor Gormley wrote a Fantasy Face-Off featuring Henry Kuttner’s Elak of Atlantis vs. There’s been a surge of interest in Henry Kuttner lately, however, and he’s been in the news half a dozen times this year at Black Gate alone. I’ve gotten used to introducing these vintage Best Of collections - as I did recently with The Best of Robert Bloch and The Best of Murray Leinster - assuming that most readers have no idea who the authors are.
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