The Original Keeps Duology by Henry Kuttner (ed. Jerry eBooks 2020)
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Overview: Henry Kuttner (1914 – 1958). Husband of C L Moore, aka Keith Hammond, Lawrence O’Donnell, Lewis Padgett
Henry Kuttner worked alone and in collaboration with his wife, the great science fiction and fantasy writer C.L. Moore, one of the four or five most important writers of the 1940’s, the writer whose work went furthest in its sociological and psychological insight, to making science fiction a human as well as technological literature. He was an important influence upon every contemporary and every science fiction writer who succeeded him. In the early 1940’s and under many pseudonyms, Kuttner and Moore published very widely through the range of the science fiction and fantasy pulp markets.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
CLASH BY NIGHT
Astounding Science-Fiction, March, 1943, Volume XXXI, No. 1
THE whole system of which he was a part was doomed, he knew—a mercenary army that fought other mercenary armies for cities that lay beneath the seas of Venus. Yet—there was a fascination and a reasonless loyalty to that futile system that held him.
FURY
Astounding Science-Fiction, May-July 1947, Volume XXXIX, Nos. 3-5
Beneath the roiling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps—fully enclosed cities and within those cities live descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to propel the spaceships that took them to Venus. In massive superstructures built beneath the Venusian seas, a complex feudal society devoted simply to decadence has evolved. Presiding over that society are Immortals—genetic throwbacks to the mutant atomic survivors. While the society is stable, the stability will only lead to its destruction, and the harsh environment outside the Keeps is malevolent and encroaching.
Born into all of this is Sam Harker, son of an Immortal, the object of his father’s disdain and whose mother perishes in childbirth. Sam is subjected to treatments which stunt his growth and leave him hairless, and he is exiled from the society of the Immortals and set on the tumultuous path of a rebel’s life, one inspired by hatred and a desire for vengeance on the society…
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