From: gharlane@nextnet.csus.edu (Gharlane of Eddore)
Subject: Kuttner/Moore "FURY"   was: What is the name of this book?
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Summary: a good one, go thou forth and find it
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:18:46 GMT

Rich Haller asked:

> From: rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller)
> Subject: What is the name of this book?
> Date: 28 Dec 92 22:47:22 GMT
> Organization: University of Oregon
> 
> Back in the 50s, there was a company (the name escapes me) that published
> low priced hard cover SF (I think Fred Pohl was responsible for the idea).
> One of them was a novel that took place on Venus. This Venus was mostly
> covered with water. The hero gets on the wrong side of some powerful
> people and winds up spending years of his life in a drugged state and 
> amnesia.  Eventually,  he recovers, et cetera.
> 
> Anyone know the name of this novel and the author? The two names that my
> memory disgorges as possiblities are Cyril Judd and C.M. Kornbluth.
> 
> -Rich Haller <rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu>   University of Oregon, Eugene, OR,
> USA


"FURY."    Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore.

As far as I can tell, the Venus of the Keeps was first described in 
a story published in "ASTOUNDING" in 1943.

That story is "CLASH BY NIGHT," and is credited to "Lawrence O'Donnell,"
a pseudonym used by Henry Kuttner and his wife, C.L. Moore.....

And it's the same name they used on the novel-length sequel, "FURY," 
when it was serialized in "ASTOUNDING" in 1947. 
 
There have been at least three or four hardbound editions of "FURY," 
some under other titles, and a good many paperback editions, again,
with occasional title variations.
 
The book is one of Kuttner & Moore's best pieces of work, and it's well
worth the trouble of finding.   I've always thought that a book version
*should* include "CLASH BY NIGHT" as a foreword/introduction, but it's 
*not* necessary background; it's just a good, and separate, story.
 
If you can't find it anywhere else, "CLASH BY NIGHT" is in the "Astounding
Science Fiction Anthology" that Campbell put together in 1952. 
 
(on "Cyril Judd"......
 "Cyril Judd" was a composite pen-name Campbell suggested for the
 collaboration of Cyril M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril, when they
 wrote the novel "GUNNER CADE," for "ASTOUNDING" in the early fifties. 
  
 If you look really hard, you'll find a sexed-up Galaxy pb edition 
 (circa 1955?) of "GUNNER CADE" with the title "SIN IN SPACE...."
 and a picture of a blonde, skintight-suited spacewoman pulling off her
 blouse in front of a scroungy-looking spaceman.....
 I've been told the same title and cover got used over again, for a
 *second* "Cyril Judd" novel, since the folks at Galaxy overprinted
 the cover and had to find a way to use it up, but I haven't seen it,
 so don't quote me.
)

 Kuttner and Kornbluth both died about forty years ago.  Contrary to 
rumors I've occasionally seen here and on other networks, Kuttner and
Kornbluth were *NOT* the same person.  (And, concomitantly, Catherine
L. Moore was not married to Kornbluth under *any* name.)  
 
Kuttner/Moore *were*, however, many other folks, including "Lewis Padgett."

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