Henry Kuttner

The Last Mimzy is the ideal introduction to an author who was ahead of his time--and whose time has finally come These seventeen classic stories create their own unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angry aliens. In "Mimsy Were the Borogoves"--the inspiration for New Line Cinema's major motion picture The Last Mimzy--a boy finds a discarded box containing a treasure trove of curious objects. When he and his sister begin to play with these trinkets--including a crystal cube that magnifies the unimaginable and a strange doll with removable organs that don't quite correspond to those of the human body--their parents grow concerned. And they should be. For the items are changing the way the children think and perceive the world around them--for better or worse. Ray Bradbury called Henry Kuttner "a man who shaped science fiction and fantasy in its most important years." Marion Zimmer Bradley and Roger Zelazny said he was a major inspiration. Kuttner was a writer's writer whose visionary works anticipated our own computer-controlled, machine-made world. At the time of his death at forty-two in 1958, he had created as many as 170 stories under more than a dozen pseudonyms--sometimes writing entire issues of science fiction magazines--in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. This definitive collection will be a revelation to those who wish to discover or rediscover Henry Kuttner, a true master of the universe.

The special 300th issue of Weird Tales honors grandmaster Robert Bloch with a special issue dedicated to him. Includes a previously unpublished collaboration between Bloch and Henry Kuttner, plus contributions from Ray Bradbury, Lawrence Watt-Evans. All artwork is by Featured Artist Gahan Wilson.

Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915-February 4, 1958) was a science fiction author born in Los Angeles, California. As a young man he worked for a literaryagency before selling his first story, "The Graveyard Rats", to Weird Tales in 1936. Kuttner was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. They met through their association with the "Lovecraft Circle", a group of writers and fans who corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft. Their work together spanned the 1940s and 1950s andmost of the work was credited to pseudonyms, mainly Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O'Donnell.