Kuttner was long regarded as the sole author of the Padgett Galloway Gallegher series collected as Robots Have No Tails (stories January 1943-April 1948 Astounding coll of linked stories 1952 as by Padgett vt The Proud Robot: The Complete Galloway Gallegher Stories 1983) but this can no longer be taken for granted. The Padgett stories are ingenious and slickly written, often deploying offbeat Humour. It was then that they devised their best known pseudonyms, Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O'Donnell, much of their best work appearing initially under these names. During World War Two they became part of John W Campbell Jr's stable of writers, working for Astounding Science-Fiction. Moore seems to have been the more fluent and perhaps the more assiduous (indeed, talented) writer, but Kuttner's wit, deftly audacious deployment of ideas and neat exposition complemented her talents very well. Kuttner also published stories under various House Names, including James Hall and Will Garth although he wrote "Dr Cyclops" (June 1940 Thrilling Wonder) under his own name – a novelette confusingly unconnected with the novelization as by Will Garth (probably Alexander Samalman) of that same year's film Dr Cyclops ( 1940) – Kuttner's tale was reprinted as the title story of Dr Cyclops (anth 1967) edited anonymously (see Will Garth for more details).Īfter their marriage, most of Kuttner's and Moore's works were to a considerable extent joint efforts – it is said that each could pick up and smoothly continue any story from wherever the other had left off typing on the single typewriter they seem to have used for at least some of their work together. He used many pseudonyms in this part of his career, and even more after marrying C L Moore in 1940, when the two wrote very many stories in collaboration these names included Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Robert O Kenyon, C H Liddell, K H Maepenn, Scott Morgan and Woodrow Wilson Smith. (He and Barnes also wrote together as Kelvin Kent.) Kuttner achieved a certain notoriety with the slightly risqué stories he wrote for Marvel Science Stories, notably The Time Trap (November 1938 Marvel Science Stories 2013 dos). Early sf work includes a series about the movie business of the future: "Hollywood on the Moon" (April 1938 Thrilling Wonder), "Doom World" (August 1938 Thrilling Wonder), "The Star Parade" (December 1938 Thrilling Wonder), "The Energy Eaters" (October 1939 Thrilling Wonder) and "The Seven Sleepers" (May 1940 Thrilling Wonder), the last two in collaboration with Arthur K Barnes. Kuttner began to publish sf stories in October 1937 with "When the Earth Lived" for Thrilling Wonder Stories, remaining prolific in several modes, including Space Opera, a substantial selection of the latter being assembled as Thunder in the Void (coll 2012) nearly 300 stories are credited to him as a writer of sf and fantasy into the early 1950s, though (see below) much of his later work is inextricably entwined with that of C L Moore. Limited selections of this early work have been assembled as Prince Raynor (April, August 1939 Strange Stories coll 1987 chap), Book of Iod (coll 1995) and The Graveyard Rats and Other Stories (coll 2010 ebook) a more systematic coverage of these years has begun with The Early Kuttner, Volume One: Terror in the House (coll 2010). His stories for the magazine included a Robert E Howard-like Sword-and-Sorcery series collected as Elak of Atlantis (stories May 1938-January 1941 Weird Tales coll of linked stories 1985). (1915-1958) US author, married to C L Moore from 1940 until his death his childhood interest in Weird Tales early led him to correspond with H P Lovecraft and others: his first sale to the magazine was a poem, "Ballad of the Gods", in February 1936, followed by "The Graveyard Rats" (March 1936 Weird Tales).
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