Also available in Hamlyn Paperbacks by Henry Kuttner
FURY MUTANT

CLASH BY NIGHT
and other stories
HENRY KUTTNER
with C. L. MOORE Selected and introduced by Peter Pinto

Hamlyn Paperbacks
 

CLASH BY NIGHT and other stories ISBN o 600 32150 9
 

CONTENTS
First published in Great Britain in this arrangement by Hamlyn Paperbacks 1980
This selection copyright (c) 1980 by the Estate of Henry Kuttner
CLASH BY NIGHT Copyright (c) 1943 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.,
and originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1943.
Copyright renewed 1970. WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS Copyright (c) 1944 by Street & Smith
Publications, Inc., and originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944.
Copyright renewed 1971.
JUKE-BOX Copyright (c) 1946 by Standard Magazines, Inc., and originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1947.
Copyright renewed 1973. THE EGO MACHINE Copyright (c) 1952 by Space Science Fiction, Inc.,
and originally published in Space Science Fiction, May 1952.
VINTAGE SEASON Copyright (c) 1946 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.,
and originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, September 1946.
Copyright renewed 1973.
INTRODUCTION copyright (c) 1980 by Peter Pinto
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Introduction
Clash by Night
When the Bough Breaks
Juke-Box
The Ego Machine
Vintage Season

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INTRODUCTION
In 1940 two fine science fiction writers married. Not only did Catherine ('C.L.') Moore and Henry Kuttner marry their lives, but they also married their writing careers. From two good writers were born whole companies of pseudonymous great writers (Lewis Padgett, Lawrence O'Donnell . . . to name but thirty). The number of pen-names used by the prolific partners together and apart at one time threatened to swamp the universe of quality SF - indeed, so great was their contribution that when Jack Vance started his illustrious career, a rumour quickly spread that this was yet another reflection of the versatile Kuttner-Moore genius! (A rumour, I hasten to add, that had and has no truth in it whatsoever.)
In 1958 this fruitful collaboration came to an untimely end. Henry Kuttner died at the age of forty-four, and science fiction was sadly diminished. The two were in the midst of their first television script at the time of Henry Kuttner's sudden death. C. L. Moore finished the work and continued in the television field until after her second marriage six years later. She has done no science-fiction writing since the late 19505.
Hamlyn Paperbacks have already published Mutant and Fury, and will continue to bring back into print the works of one of science fiction's great masters. I do not anticipate the best of Kuttner (and Kuttner-and-Moore)'s work becoming unavailable again for any significant length of time from

now until entertaining and highly polished story-telling goes out of fashion.
I have re-edited the collections to eliminate annoying overlaps, to make up the books to convenient lengths, and to collect stories in the same series into the same volumes.
I appreciate this may cause some Kuttner fans of long standing anguish, pain, depletion of resources and the like, but please bear with me; you will now be able to turn your friends on to Galloway Gallegher and Joe, the Hogbens - in a word, 'otherness' - without risking your irreplaceable first editions.
So spread the word. Kuttner is coming back into print. It is now up to you to ensure that future generations of fans are not denied the opportunity to sit amused, baffled, delighted, bewildered, tickled, frightened, amazed, entertained and enthralled by the otherness of the Kuttners, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.
Peter Pinto 1980.