TY - ABST T1 - "Two-Handed Engine" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) A1 - Catherine L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a machine-dominated society with the judicial system and police replaced by almost infallible machines.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 9.2 N1 -

Rpt. in their No Boundaries (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 123-49; in Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction. Ed. Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg (New York: New Viewpoints, 1977), 146-67, with an editors’ note on 146; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 267-97, with an editor’s note on 265.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Portal in the Picture" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) A1 - [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological authoritarian dystopia set on a parallel world. Mostly adventure.

JF - Startling Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 20.1 N1 -

Rpt. as by Lewis Padgett [pseud.] and C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore as Beyond Earth's Gates. New York: Ace, 1954. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton, Daybreak--2250 A.D., which was originally published as Star Man's Son: 2250 A.D. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.

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Lewis Padgett [pseud. of Kuttner ] on book publication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fury" Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Venus in the future with a degenerated human race living in safety and the successful struggle to revitalize the people.  Sequel to 1943 [Kuttner and Moore], “Clash By Night”.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 39.3 - 5 N1 -

Rpt. as by Kuttner. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1954. Reissued as Destination Infinity. Original title: Fury. New York: Avon, 1956. Rpt. Boston, MA: Garland, 1975.

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Reissued as Destination Infinity.

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Lawrence O'Donnell [pseud.] with the anonymous collaboration of Catherine Lucille Moore

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jesting Pilot" Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia set in a city that has been isolated from the outside world for 600 years to protect it from the wars of the overpopulated world. The city was designed to be a eutopia precisely fitted to the needs of its citizens, who are all hypnotized. The Controllers of the city are bred and raised to run the world until the Barrier around the city is raised. The citizens know nothing of them.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 39.3 U3 -

Lewis Padgett [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After a brief, aborted World War II, the GPC or Global Peace Commission rules the world and limits research to approved topics and prohibits space exploration. An underground movement wants to overthrow it in the name of an undescribed utopia.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) VL - 38.5 - 6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Tomorrow and Tomorrow and The Fairy Chessman (New York: Gnome Press, 1951), 9-108. U.K. ed. London: World Distributors, 1963.

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Lewis Padgett [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Things" Y1 - 1946 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future society perceived as a dystopia by the hero. In fact, it is a society designed to avoid war, and thus is a eutopia, but secrecy and some authoritarianism are necessary to achieve this end.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) VL - 29.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Bypass to Otherness (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961), 101-14. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Clash By Night" Y1 - 1943 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) A1 - [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Permanent war among mercenaries on Venus.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 31.1 U3 -

Lawrence O'Donnell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Iron Standard" Y1 - 1943 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) A1 - [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia on a Venus that sees its system, thousands of years old, as perfect and allows no innovation, which benefits those in power. Men from Earth upset the system

JF - Astounding Science Fiction 32.4 (December 1943) U3 -

Lewis Padgett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Telepathy Is News!” Y1 - 1939 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) ED - Stephen Haffner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia when telepathy becomes possible.

JF - Science Fiction VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner Volume Two. Ed. Stephen Haffner (Royal Oaks, MI: Haffner Press, 2016), 83-105.

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Illus. Jack Binder

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Paul Edmonds [pseud.]. 

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