<div>A powerful and violent crime fiction novel from an iconic author and &ldquo;one of the major names in science fiction&rdquo; (The New York Times). Nick Banning was a man drowning in a land of far-off horizons, a land that had all the vigor sucked out of it ages ago by the Arizona sun. But it wasn&rsquo;t the blasting heat of southwestern desert that bothered Nick&mdash;it was the heat of his own emotions, his desire for Sherry, the woman who had told him no. But Nick was winding up, faster and faster. He meant to have Sherry&mdash;or else. &ldquo;[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds&mdash;full of ideas.&rdquo; &mdash;Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 421</div>

Man Drowning

<div>From the renowned, Hugo Award&ndash;nominated titan of science fiction comes a collection of his best short stories: &ldquo;Kuttner is magic&rdquo; (Joe R. Lansdale, author of Honky Tonk Samurai). In seventeen classic stories, Henry Kuttner creates a unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angry aliens. These stories include &ldquo;Mimsy Were the Borogoves&rdquo;&mdash;the inspiration for New Line Cinema&rsquo;s major motion picture The Last Mimzy&mdash;as well as &ldquo;Two-Handed Engine,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Proud Robot,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Misguided Halo,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Voice of the Lobster,&rdquo; &ldquo;Exit the Professor,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Twonky,&rdquo; &ldquo;A Gnome There Was,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Big Night,&rdquo; &ldquo;Nothing But Gingerbread Left,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Iron Standard,&rdquo; &ldquo;Cold War,&rdquo; &ldquo;Or Else,&rdquo; &ldquo;Endowment Policy,&rdquo; &ldquo;Housing Problem,&rdquo; &ldquo;What You Need,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Absalom.&rdquo; &ldquo;[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds&mdash;full of ideas.&rdquo; &mdash;Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 421</div>

The Best of Henry Kuttner

<div>Ten classic sci-fi and horror stories by &ldquo;one of the major names in science fiction&rdquo; (The New York Times). From Hugo Award&ndash;nominated Henry Kuttner, one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s most respected science fiction writers, comes a collection of stories described to be &ldquo;just about as good as the modern magazine science-fantasy story can get&rdquo; (J. Francis McComas and Anthony Boucher). These ten science fiction stories include: &ldquo;Or Else,&rdquo; &ldquo;Home Is the Hunter,&rdquo; &ldquo;By These Presents,&rdquo; &ldquo;De Profundis,&rdquo; &ldquo;Camouflage,&rdquo; &ldquo;Year Day,&rdquo; &ldquo;Ghost,&rdquo; &ldquo;Shock,&rdquo; &ldquo;Pile of Trouble,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Deadlock.&rdquo; &ldquo;[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds&mdash;full of ideas.&rdquo; &mdash;Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 421</div>

Ahead of Time

<div>A complete collection of Galloway Gallegher stories from &ldquo;one of the major names in science fiction&rdquo; (The New York Times). In this comprehensive collection, Henry Kuttner is back with Galloway Gallegher, his most beloved character in the stories that helped make him famous. Gallegher is a binge-drinking scientist who&rsquo;s a genius when drunk and totally clueless sober. Hounded by creditors and government officials, he wakes from each bender to discover a new invention designed to solve all his problems&mdash;if only he knew how it worked . . . Add a vain and uncooperative robot assistant, a heckling grandfather, and a host of uninvited guests&mdash;from rabbit-like aliens to time-traveling mafia lawyers to his own future corpse&mdash;and Gallegher has more on his hands than even he can handle. Time for another drink! &ldquo;[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds&mdash;full of ideas.&rdquo; &mdash;Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 421</div>

Robots Have No Tails

<div>A San Francisco psychoanalyst turned amateur sleuth takes on the perplexing case of a pathological liar who thinks her husband wants to kill her. Dr. Michael Gray is constantly getting drawn into the lives, and murders, of his troubled clientele. His keen eye for human behavior leads him to meet some of San Francisco&rsquo;s most memorable denizens&mdash;and to forever be in mortal danger. After a shadowy figure attempts to bludgeon her in her bed, housewife Karen Champion believes her husband is out to get her. The problem is no one will believe anything Karen says. A known pathological liar, Karen can&rsquo;t turn to the police&mdash;so she goes to the famous psychoanalyst Michael Gray for help. When she tells Gray what her husband is plotting, Gray is pulled deep into a world of quack doctors, a blackmailing private eye, and a killer who found that one vicious murder was only the beginning. Praise for Henry Kuttner &ldquo;A neglected master.&rdquo; &mdash;Ray Bradbury &ldquo;Kuttner is magic.&rdquo; &mdash;Joe R. Lansdale</div>

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Murder of a Wife

<div>A San Francisco psychoanalyst once again turns amateur sleuth when a playgirl patient is the prime suspect in a prostitute&rsquo;s murder. Dr. Michael Gray is constantly getting drawn into the lives, and murders, of his troubled clientele. His keen eye for human behavior leads him to meet some of San Francisco&rsquo;s most memorable denizens&mdash;and to forever be in mortal danger. Beverly Bond was the kind of girl men didn&rsquo;t tell their wives about. She was blond, beautiful, and your friend&mdash;for a price. After she&rsquo;s found with a knife in her chest and her apartment ablaze, four people confessed to her murder. The evidence, meanwhile, points to reckless heiress Eileen Herrick, one of Gray&rsquo;s patients, who phoned Gray after fleeing Bond&rsquo;s apartment building. Believing Herrick is innocent, Gray sets out to solve the killing of a young woman who knew too much about too many men who had too damned much to lose . . . Praise for Henry Kuttner &ldquo;A neglected master.&rdquo; &mdash;Ray Bradbury &ldquo;Kuttner is magic.&rdquo; &mdash;Joe R. Lansdale</div>

Murder of a Mistress

<div>From &ldquo;a neglected master&rdquo;: All four murder mysteries featuring the psychoanalyst turned sleuth in 1950s San Francisco (Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451). Dr. Michael Gray is constantly drawn into the lives, and murders, of his clientele. Fortunately, this unconventional detective&rsquo;s eye for human behavior just might keep him out of mortal danger . . . The Murder of Eleanor Pope: When a woman is killed in a foggy San Francisco park, the police suspect it was a robbery gone terribly wrong, but Dr. Gray&rsquo;s troubled new patient may be the key to the truth. The Murder of Ann Avery: Everyone thinks a juvenile delinquent murdered Ann Avery, but Dr. Gray has a whole list of potential suspects&mdash;if someone doesn&rsquo;t kill them first. Murder of a Mistress: When a call girl is murdered, four people confess to the deed. But the evidence points to one of Dr. Gray&rsquo;s patients. Heiress Eileen Herrick may be a wild child, but Gray is out to prove she&rsquo;s no killer. Murder of a Wife: Dr. Gray&rsquo;s new patient is housewife Karen Champion. He was warned she&rsquo;s a pathological liar, but he finds it difficult to ignore her claim that her husband is trying to kill her . . . &ldquo;Kuttner is magic.&rdquo; &mdash;Joe R. Lansdale, author of The Thicket</div>

The Michael Gray Novels

<div>Four WWII combatants travel to a distant and dangerous future in this novel by &ldquo;two of the most revered names from [science fiction&rsquo;s] Golden Age&rdquo; (SFReviews.net). During World War II, four bitter enemies are pulled forward a billion years in time by a master being from an alien galaxy. They arrive on a dying Earth&mdash;to Carcasilla, Earth&rsquo;s last citadel&mdash;where the mutated remnants of humanity are making their final stand against the monstrous creations of a fading world. Thrust in the middle of this desperate struggle for survival, the last humans must put aside their differences and stop the looming Armageddon. Praise for Henry Kuttner &ldquo;One of the all-time major names in science fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;A neglected master.&rdquo; &mdash;Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 &ldquo;Kuttner is magic.&rdquo; &mdash;Joe R. Lansdale, author of The Thicket</div>

Earth's Last Citadel

<div>A San Francisco psychoanalyst goes searching for a killer when a troubled teen stands falsely accused of murder. Dr. Michael Gray is constantly getting drawn into the lives, and murders, of his troubled clientele. His keen eye for human behavior leads him to meet some of San Francisco&rsquo;s most memorable denizens&mdash;and to forever be in mortal danger. When a cinema owner&rsquo;s wife Ann Avery is murdered, headlines scream for a fast conviction of the juvenile delinquent she had taken under wing. Dr. Gray, however, has other suspects in mind, including a vicious gang leader, a drug addict, a blackmailing drunk, and Ann&rsquo;s clean-cut husband. But if the good doctor doesn&rsquo;t act quickly, someone might get scratched off his list permanently. Praise for Henry Kuttner &ldquo;A neglected master.&rdquo; &mdash;Ray Bradbury &ldquo;Kuttner is magic.&rdquo; &mdash;Joe R. Lansdale</div>

The Murder of Ann Avery

<div>A psychiatrist travels to a world of magic and gods in this take on &ldquo;Jason and the Argonauts&rdquo; from the Hugo Award&ndash;nominated author of Earth&rsquo;s Last Citadel. Jay Seward remembers a former life in a land of magic, gods, and goddesses&mdash;a time when he was Jason of Iolcus, sailing in the enchanted ship Argo to steal the Golden Fleece from the serpent-temples of Apollo. But one night the memories become startlingly real, as the Argo itself sails out of the spectral mists and a hauntingly beautiful voice calls: &ldquo;Jason . . . come to me!&rdquo; And suddenly he&rsquo;s on the deck of the Argo, sailing into danger and magic . . . &ldquo;A fantasy in the grand tradition of Merritt and the other giants.&rdquo; &mdash;Arthur Leo Zagat, author of the Tomorrow series Praise for Henry Kuttner &ldquo;One of the all-time major names in science fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;A neglected master.&rdquo; &mdash;Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 &ldquo;Kuttner is magic.&rdquo; &mdash;Joe R. Lansdale, author of The Thicket</div>

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Books By Henry Kuttner (10 Books)

Man Drowning

The Best of Henry Kuttner

Ahead of Time

Robots Have No Tails

Murder of a Wife

Murder of a Mistress

The Michael Gray Novels

Earth's Last Citadel

The Murder of Ann Avery

The Mask of Circe

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