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Hollywood on the
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Man About Time: The Pete Manx Adventures
Henry
Kuttner
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Arthur
K.
Barnes
Introduction by ???
Cover art by Earle K.
Bergey
ISBN-13 9781893887572
$40.00
600+ pp. Hardcover
Description
Prior to his marriage
to fellow science-fantasy writer Catherine L. Moore in 1940, Henry
Kuttner wrote stories of Lovecraftian horror, weird-menace
"shudder"
tales, and thrilling adventure stories. But he also wrote
blood-n-thunder Space Opera stories in the vein of Edmond Hamilton (one
of young Kuttner's favorite authors) told with a rough-edge style
similar to Kuttner's protege Leigh Brackett.
Arthur K. Barnes, an early
friend of Kuttner, published his first story "Lord of
the Lightning" for Wonder Stories
in December
1931. His "Interplanetary Hunter" series featuring Miss
Gerry Carlyle of the
London Interplanetary Zoo was originally
published in Thrilling Wonder
Stories.
Together, Kuttner & Barnes collaborated (and in some cases, wrote
independently) on two series of science fiction adventures for Thrilling Wonder Stories. The
first, the "Hollywood on the Moon" series, featured ace cameraman Tony
Quade of Nine Planets Films, Inc. and his crew skipping around the
solar system (even teaming up with Gerry Carlyle a few times!)
humorously encountering all manner of weird alien life.
The second series, dealt with the hilarious temporal romps of carnival barker, conman, and
small-time crook Pete Manx. Pete is
always on the run from some debt collector, or running to his lastest
scam for an easy buck. Inevitably, Manx always ends up in the
laboratory of Dr. Mayhem, whose unreliable time machine launches Pete
into the past where he finds himself in hotter water than before.
This volume collects all the SF collaborations of these two punsters
and features the interior illustrations of the original magazines.
Table of Contents
Introduction by ???
Hollywood on the
Moon (Thrilling Wonder Stories
Apr ’38)
Doom World (Thrilling Wonder
Stories Aug ’38)
The Star Parade (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Dec ’38)
The Energy Eaters (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Oct ’39)
The Seven Sleepers (Thrilling
Wonder Stories May ’40)
Trouble on Titan (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Feb ’47)
Roman Holiday (Thrilling Wonder
Stories Aug ’39)
World’s Pharaoh (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Dec ’39)
Science Is Golden (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Apr ’40)
Knight Must Fall (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Jun ’40)
The Comedy of Eras (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Sep ’40)
Man About Time (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Oct ’40)
The Greeks Had a War for It (Thrilling
Wonder
Stories Jan ’41)
Hercules Muscles in (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Feb ’41)
Dames Is Poison (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Jun ’42)
De Wolfe of Wall Street (Thrilling
Wonder
Stories Feb ’43)
Grief of Bagdad (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Jun ’43)
Swing Your Lady (Thrilling
Wonder Stories Win ’44)
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