The Best of Henry Kuttner

These 17 stories create a galaxy of vain, protective & murderous robots, devilish angels, & warm & angry aliens. In “Mimsy Were the Borogoves,” inspiring New Line Cinema’s The Last Mimzy, a boy finds a box of curious objects. When he & his sister play with them — including a crystal cube that magnifies the unimaginable & a doll with removable organs that don’t quite correspond to human ones — the parents grow concerned, for the items are changing the way the children perceive the world.

Bradbury called Kuttner a man who shaped sf & fantasy in its most important years. Marion Zimmer Bradley & Roger Zelazny called him inspiring. He was a writer’s writer whose works anticipated our own computer-controlled world. At his death at 42 in ’58, he had created as many as 170 stories under over a dozen pseudonyms, sometimes writing entire issues of sf magazines in collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore.

Henry Kuttner: A Neglected Master by Ray Bradbury
Mimsy Were the Borogoves (1943) novelette by Kuttner & Moore
Two-Handed Engine (1955) novelette by Moore & Kuttner
The Proud Robot [Gallegher] (1943) novelette by Kuttner & Moore
The Misguided Halo (1939) story by Kuttner
The Voice of the Lobster (1950) novelette by Kuttner
Exit the Professor [Hogben 2] (1947) story by Kuttner & Moore
The Twonky (1942) novelette by Kuttner & Moore
A Gnome There Was (1941) novelette by Kuttner & Moore
The Big Night (1947) novelette by Kuttner
Nothing But Gingerbread Left (1943) story by Kuttner & Moore
The Iron Standard (1943) story by Kuttner & Moore
Cold War [Hogben 5] (1949) novelette by Moore & Kuttner
Or Else (1953) story by Kuttner & Moore
Endowment Policy (1943) story by Kuttner & Moore
Housing Problem (1944) story by Kuttner & Moore
What You Need (1945) story by Kuttner & Moore
Absalom (1946) story by Kuttner & Moore