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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.

Contents: - I, the Vampire - The Salem Horror - The Shadow on the Screen - The Secret of Kralitz - Chameleon Man

The Ego Machine: When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology-don't do it After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible? Where the World is Quiet: The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully assembling powdery relics of ancient races and civilizations.

Contents: - The Ego Machine - Where the World is Quiet - I, the Vampire - The Salem Horror - The Shadow on the Screen - The Secret of Kralitz - Chameleon Man

A Fiction House Press Classic Reprint: Elak of Atlantis was a four-story series first published in Weird Tales pulp magazine. The two-story Prince Raynor series first appeared in Strange Stories pulp magazine. We reprint the original pulp text along with the pulp interior illustrations.

Earth's second satellite harbors the secret of the eternal quest. Stephen Court welds the scientific forces of today with the wizadry from time's dawn

The Earth is long dead, blasted apart, and the human survivors who settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in an atrophying, class-ridden society ruled by the Immortals - genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Sam Reed was born an immortal, born to rule those with a normal life-span, but his deranged father had him mutilated as a baby so that he wouldn't know of his heritage. And Sam grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and the law, thinking of the Immortals as his enemies. Then he reached the age of eighty, understood what had happened to him and went looking for revenge - and changed his decaying world forever.Fury is a powerful, dark and compelling novel that explores the sensual, bloody and urgent nature of humankind's striving.

When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology-don't do it After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible?

World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible retinue of werewolves, wizards, and witches, but all is not as it seems in this shadowy mirror of the real world, and Bond discovers that a part of him feels more at home here than he ever has on Earth.

Jerry Vanning trailed the fugitive Callahan into the swampy wastes of Venus, Hell-Kingdom of the fabled War-Gods. He reached his goal--walking with the robot-strides of a North-fever slave.Henry Kuttner was an editor and writer who held vast influence in the early days of genre publishing. His short stories were published in magazines such as Weird Tales, Astounding Science Fiction, and Startling Stories.

Jerry Vanning trailed the fugitive Callahan into the swampy wastes of Venus, Hell-Kingdom of the fabled War-Gods. He reached his goal--walking with the robot-strides of a North-fever slave.Henry Kuttner was an editor and writer who held vast influence in the early days of genre publishing. His short stories were published in magazines such as Weird Tales, Astounding Science Fiction, and Startling Stories.