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* PinealWeirdness: Magic in ''The Dark World'' is really PsychicPowers caused by using NinetyPercentOfYourBrain and "the ancient third eye that is the pineal gland".
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Henry Kuttner was the author of many sci-fi and fantasy short stories in TheThirties, [[TheForties Forties]], and [[TheFifties Fifties]].
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Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was the an American author of many sci-fi [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]], {{fantasy}}, and fantasy {{horror}} short stories in TheThirties, the [[TheThirties 1930s]], [[TheForties Forties]], '40s]], and [[TheFifties Fifties]].
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Kuttner liked the writing of fellow science-fiction writer Creator/CLMoore, so a mutual acquaintance, H. P. Lovecraft, gave him Moore's address. Lovecraft failed to mention that 'C. L.' stood for 'Catherine Lucille', so Kuttner addressed his fan letter to 'Mr. C. L. Moore'. Even so, Kuttner and Moore fell in love and eventually married, frequently working as a CreatorCouple thereafter.
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Kuttner liked the writing of fellow science-fiction writer sci-fi author Creator/CLMoore, so a mutual acquaintance, H. P. Lovecraft, gave him Moore's address. Lovecraft failed to mention that 'C. L.' stood for 'Catherine Lucille', so Kuttner addressed his fan letter to 'Mr. C. L. Moore'. Even so, Kuttner and Moore fell in love and eventually married, frequently working as a CreatorCouple thereafter.
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Kuttner is not as well known as many of his contemporaries, mostly due to his death at the relatively young age of 42 and the fact that he wrote under at least 17 different pseudonyms.
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Kuttner is not as well known well-known as many of his contemporaries, mostly due to his death at the relatively young age of 42 and the fact that he wrote under at least 17 different pseudonyms. pseudonyms.
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Some of Kuttner's works have been adapted for film. Written with Creator/CLMoore, their short story "The Twonky" was filmed in 1953, while "Literature/MimsyWereTheBorogoves" was adapted into ''Film/TheLastMimzy'' in 2007. Their "Literature/WhatYouNeed" was adapted as [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed an episode]] of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}''. Kutter's "Literature/TheGraveyardRats" was adapted as a segment of ''Film/TrilogyOfTerrorII'' and an episode of ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities''.
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Some of Kuttner's works have been adapted for film. Written with Creator/CLMoore, their short story "The Twonky" was filmed in 1953, while "Literature/MimsyWereTheBorogoves" was adapted into ''Film/TheLastMimzy'' in 2007. Their "Literature/WhatYouNeed" was adapted as [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E12WhatYouNeed an episode]] of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}''. Kutter's "Literature/TheGraveyardRats" was adapted as a segment of ''Film/TrilogyOfTerrorII'' and an episode of ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities''.
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* CombatClairvoyance: A telepathic mutant in “The Piper’s Son” gets out of a duel after demonstrating how mind-reading would let him anticipate and counter all his opponent’s moves, no matter how instinctive.
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* BrainInAJar: Bart Quentin, one of the central characters in “Camouflage,” has become a brain-in-a-box called a Transplant after a research accident. It doesn’t prevent him from fighting very effectively against an attempt to hijack the spaceship he’s plugged into.
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Kuttner is not as well known as many of his contemporaries, mostly due to his death at the relatively young age of 42.
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Kuttner is not as well known as many of his contemporaries, mostly due to his death at the relatively young age of 42.42 and the fact that he wrote under at least 17 different pseudonyms.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: [[spoiler:[=MacDuff=]]] in ''The Voice of the Lobster''
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giving Robots Have No Tails its own page
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Among his works are the comedic Galloway Gallegher stories, which concern an inventor who reaches unimaginable heights of genius while drunk, which invariably causes trouble when he wakes up the day after with a hangover and no idea what his latest creation is supposed to do.
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Among his works are the comedic Galloway Gallegher stories, which concern an inventor who reaches unimaginable heights of genius while drunk, which invariably causes trouble when he wakes up the day after with a hangover and no idea what his latest creation is supposed to do.
do. These stories are collected in ''Literature/RobotsHaveNoTails''.
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* TheAlcoholic: Gallegher has a severe and probably hereditary drinking problem, which the stories [[PlayedForComedy play for comedy]].
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Vanning]] in "Time Locker"
* DrunkenMaster: Gallegher's genius is activated only when drunk.
* DrunkenMaster: Gallegher's genius is activated only when drunk.
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* FutureSocietyPresentValues: The distant future that Gallegher inhabits is distinctly similar to 1940s urban America.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Gallegher in "Time Locker", when he realizes [[spoiler:that Vanning had reached into the future and crushed ''himself'']].
* LaserGuidedKarma: The Furies are programmed to enforce this in ''Two-Handed Engine''.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The Furies are programmed to enforce this in ''Two-Handed Engine''.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Gallegher in "Time Locker", when he realizes [[spoiler:that Vanning had reached into the future and crushed ''himself'']].
* LaserGuidedKarma:LaserGuidedKarma:
** The Furies are programmed to enforce this in ''Two-Handed Engine''.
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** The Furies are programmed to enforce this in ''Two-Handed Engine''.
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** In "Time Locker", AmoralAttorney Vanning sees a small person attempting to take illict bonds he's hiding in the AppliedPhlebotinum for a client, and squashes the person. [[spoiler:Turns out that all things are contracting faster than Galloway[=/=]Gallegher realizes and Vanning sent himself to the Malebolge.]]
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* PhysicalGod: Horrifyingly, one of the main characters in "Ex Machina" is revealed to be a ''de facto'' god.
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* RoboticPsychopath: Although he's frequently likened to Narcissus and is definitely autosexual (in the sense of being sexually attracted to oneself), Gallegher's robot Joe also seems to legitimately have narcissistic personality disorder. The extent of his autocracy extends ''far'' beyond SecondLawMyAss.
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* SingleTaskRobot: Gallegher's robot, Joe, was created after Gallegher set out to create a simple device for a single purpose, went overboard and ended up with a DoAnythingRobot with all kinds of extra abilities -- which refuses to obey any order not relating to the original single purpose.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Gallegher's robot Joe possesses a wide variety of amazing functions that are all completely incidental to the robot's primary function. Played for laughs.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Gallegher's robot Joe possesses a wide variety of amazing functions that are all completely incidental to the robot's primary function. Played for laughs.
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The driving force of the Gallegher stories.
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Some of Kuttner's works have been adapted for film. Written with Creator/CLMoore, their short story "The Twonky" was filmed in 1953, while "Literature/MimsyWereTheBorogoves" was adapted into ''Film/TheLastMimzy'' in 2007. Their "Literature/WhatYouNeed" was adapted as [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed an episode]] of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}''. Kutter's "Literature/TheGraveyardRats" was adapted as a segment of ''Film/TrilogyOfTerrorII''.
''Film/TrilogyOfTerrorII'' and an episode of ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities''.
