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 that exiled him in the first place and made him an outcast.
Sam's search for revenge and his great abilities make him more powerful than the more decadent residents of Keeps, even more powerful perhaps than the Immortals. Sam seeks mass appeal as a politician in a campaign that assaults society itself. It is not until everything is destroyed--that is, in the aftermath of destruction--that the reclamation of human destiny is even a remote possibility.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Henry Kuttner (1914-1958) wrote alone as well as 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 1940s and the writer whose work went furthest in its sociological and psychological insight into making science fiction human as well as technological literature.
Kuttner was an important influence upon every contemporary science fiction writer who succeeded him. In the early 1940s, and under many pseudonyms, Kuttner and Moore published very widely through a range of science fiction and fantasy pulp markets. The Kuttners wrote well-regarded science fiction novels, among them, Fury and Mutant. These, along with over fifty shorter works, remain consistently in print, keeping the Kuttner name front and center.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Highly regarded and highly influential in the genre of science fiction writing, Henry Kuttner brings some of the finest prose and plots to his category. His work brings us great science fiction as well as terrific technical writing.
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Review
''Kuttner has power, a way with words, and grasp of technique…brings life and reality to his stories.'' --New York Times, praise for the author
''One of the major names in science fiction.'' --New York Times, praise for the author
''A pomegranate writer: popping with seeds - full of ideas.'' --Ray Bradbury, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author
About the Author
Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) made his first sale to Weird Tales in 1936 and began publishing science fiction stories the following year. In 1940 he married C. L. Moore, and they wrote many stories and novels together under a number of pseudonyms. Kuttner was the author of Fury, Mutant, the Baldy series, and the Hogpen series, among numerous other novels and short stories.
Description:
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 that exiled him in the first place and made him an outcast.
Sam's search for revenge and his great abilities make him more powerful than the more decadent residents of Keeps, even more powerful perhaps than the Immortals. Sam seeks mass appeal as a politician in a campaign that assaults society itself. It is not until everything is destroyed--that is, in the aftermath of destruction--that the reclamation of human destiny is even a remote possibility.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Henry Kuttner (1914-1958) wrote alone as well as 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 1940s and the writer whose work went furthest in its sociological and psychological insight into making science fiction human as well as technological literature.
Kuttner was an important influence upon every contemporary science fiction writer who succeeded him. In the early 1940s, and under many pseudonyms, Kuttner and Moore published very widely through a range of science fiction and fantasy pulp markets. The Kuttners wrote well-regarded science fiction novels, among them, Fury and Mutant. These, along with over fifty shorter works, remain consistently in print, keeping the Kuttner name front and center.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Highly regarded and highly influential in the genre of science fiction writing, Henry Kuttner brings some of the finest prose and plots to his category. His work brings us great science fiction as well as terrific technical writing.
**
Review
''Kuttner has power, a way with words, and grasp of technique…brings life and reality to his stories.'' --New York Times, praise for the author
''One of the major names in science fiction.'' --New York Times, praise for the author
''A pomegranate writer: popping with seeds - full of ideas.'' --Ray Bradbury, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author
About the Author
Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) made his first sale to Weird Tales in 1936 and began publishing science fiction stories the following year. In 1940 he married C. L. Moore, and they wrote many stories and novels together under a number of pseudonyms. Kuttner was the author of Fury, Mutant, the Baldy series, and the Hogpen series, among numerous other novels and short stories.