History Creator / HenryKuttner

* SocietyMarchesOn: The distant future that Gallegher inhabits is distinctly similar to 1940s urban America.

* DealWithTheDevil: In "By These Presents", a man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for immortality and invulnerability -- with two conditions, the combination of which gets him in the end.

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/MimsyWereTheBorogroves" 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''.

* BrownNote: In "Nothing But Gingerbread Left", a semantics professor develops a German-language ditty so catchy that a person hearing it will be able to do nothing but [[invoked]] [[EarWorm think about it]]. It is broadcast in occupied Europe as weapon against the Nazis.

* TheAlcoholic: Gallegher has a severe and probably hereditary drinking problem, which the stories [[ValuesDissonance play for comedy]].

* BrownNote[=/=]EarWorm: In "Nothing But Gingerbread Left", a semantics professor develops a German-language ditty so catchy that a person hearing it will be able to do nothing but think about it. It is broadcast in occupied Europe as weapon against the Nazis.

Some of Kuttner's works have been adapted for film. Written with Creator/CLMoroe, their short story "The Twonky" was filmed in 1953, while "Literature/MimsyWereTheBorogroves" 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''.

* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Averted in "What You Need"; the proprietor of the little shop that sells you exactly what you're about to need notes he's been there for years. It's just a very low-key place.

Some of Kuttner's works have been adapted for film. His short story, "The Twonky", was filmed in 1953, while "Mimsy Were the Borogroves" was adapted into ''Film/TheLastMimzy'' in 2007. "What You Need" was adapted as [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed an episode]] of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'', and "The Graveyard Rats" as a segment of ''Film/TrilogyOfTerrorII''.

* AfterTheEnd: ''The Black Sun Rises'' is set in the dark age following a nuclear war.
* AIGettingHigh: "The Ego Machine" has a robot putting his fingers in a light bulb socket. Apparently, it's the robot's analogue of taking a shot of whiskey.

* AlternativeNumberSystem: In "The Iron Standard", the six-fingered Venusians use base-12.

* VenusIsWet: In "Clash by Night" and ''Fury'', Venus is an ocean world where the landmasses are dominated by uninhabitable jungle, forcing the colonists from Earth to live in underwater cities.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: "Endowment Policy"; see ConquererFromTheFuture for details.

** 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. [[Turns out that all things are contracting faster than Galloway[=/=]Gallegher realizes and Vanning sent himself to the Malebolge.]]

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: "Endowment Policy".
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: "The Iron Standard"

* SinglePurposeRobot: 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.

Kuttner liked the writing of fellow science-fiction writer C. L. Moore, 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.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: "Endowment Policy".

* ThoseWackyNazis: Get knocked for a loop by "Nothing But Gingerbread Left".

Some of Kuttner's works have been adapted for film. His short story, "The Twonky", was filmed in 1953, while "Mimsy Were the Borogroves" was adapted into ''Film/TheLastMimzy'' in 2007. "What You Need" was adapted as an episode of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'', and "The Graveyard Rats" as a segment of ''Film/TrilogyOfTerrorII''.

Some of Kuttner's works have been adapted for film. His short story, "The Twonky", was filmed in 1953, while "Mimsy Were the Borogroves" was adapted into ''Film/TheLastMimsy'' in 2007. "What You Need" was adapted as an episode of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'', and "The Graveyard Rats" as a segment of ''Film/TrilogyOfTerrorII''.

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. Some of Kuttner's works have been adapted for film. His short story, "The Twonky", was filmed in 1953, while "Mimsy Were the Borogroves" was adapted into ''The Last Mimsy'' in 2007.

* DealWithTheDevil: "By These Presents"

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.

* BrownNote: In "Nothing But Gingerbread Left", a semantics professor develops a German-language ditty so catchy that a person hearing it will be able to do nothing but think about it. It is broadcast in occupied Europe as weapon against the Nazis.

* 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 is more of a psychopath than a narcissist. The extent of his autocracy extends ''far'' beyond SecondLawMyAss.

* AlternativeNumberSystem: In ''The Iron Standard'', the six-fingered Venusians use base-12.

* BrownNote: ''Nothing But Gingerbread Left''

* IgnoreTheDisability: Discussed in ''Nothing But Gingerbread Left''.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: ''The Iron Standard''

* ThoseWackyNazis: Get knocked for a loop by ''Nothing But Gingerbread Left''