Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) was born today, April 7. He, both alone and in collaboration with his wife C. L. Moore, was one of the most prolific authors of the 1940s. One of the things he excelled at was time travel. Over the next week or two I’m going to be looking at some of his time travel stories. The one today is available in an ebook, but some of the others won’t be as easy to obtain.
Before going further, I want to address one thing, and that’s who wrote what in Kuttner and Moore’s collaborations. By Moore’s own admission, they tended to work seamlessly together. She said that at times the only way they could tell who had written what was by a few variations in how they spelled certain words. So anything written with either by-line after their marriage in 1940 was to a lesser or greater degree a collaboration. Often their work was published under pseudonyms, the two most common being Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O’Donnell. I looked at one of their science-fantasy works over at Adventures Fantastic. Continue reading