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Lewis Padgett

Autor(a) de The Well of the Worlds

36+ Works 411 Membros 9 Críticas

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Includes the name: Lewis Padgett

Também inclui: Lawrence O'Donnell (1)

Disambiguation Notice:

(eng) Lewis Padgett was the joint pseudonym of the science-fiction authors and spouses Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore. This page should, therefore, not be combined with either of their individual author pages.

Lawrence O'Donnell and C. H. Liddell are also joint pseudonyms of Kuttner and Moore, and those pages also should not be combined with this or with the individual pages.

According to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, all stories attributed to O'Donnell were written by Kuttner and Moore, and no record exists of Kuttner writing solo under the psuedonym O'Donnell.

Obras por Lewis Padgett

The Well of the Worlds (1952) 102 exemplares
Chessboard Planet (The Fairy Chessmen) (1951) — Autor — 22 exemplares
The Far Reality (1961) 14 exemplares
The Day He Died (1948) 13 exemplares
Beyond Earth's Gates 13 exemplares
The Twonky 12 exemplares
Ex Machina [short fiction] (1948) 10 exemplares
Gallegher Plus (1943) 9 exemplares
The Piper's Son [novelette] (1945) 9 exemplares
Murder in Brass 7 exemplares

Associated Works

The World Treasury of Science Fiction (1989) — Contribuidor — 891 exemplares
Adventures in Time and Space (1946) — Contribuidor, algumas edições549 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 447 exemplares
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) — Contribuidor — 392 exemplares
Science Fiction Omnibus (1952) — Contribuidor — 340 exemplares
Twilight Zone: The Original Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 274 exemplares
The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here (1979) — Contribuidor — 242 exemplares
The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology (1952) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 231 exemplares
Tomorrow's Children (1966) — Contribuidor — 197 exemplares
A Treasury of Science Fiction (1948) — Contribuidor, algumas edições; Contribuidor, algumas edições177 exemplares
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) (1981) — Autor, algumas edições107 exemplares
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction - Fourth Series (1984) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) (1944) — Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) (1984) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) (1981) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
Men Against the Stars (1950) — Contribuidor, algumas edições79 exemplares
More Adventures in Time and Space (1951) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Men and Machines (1968) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Chessboard Planet and Other Stories (1945)algumas edições59 exemplares
The Best of Astounding (1944) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Beyond Human Ken (1952) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Souls in Metal: An Anthology of Robot Futures (1977) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
Science Fiction Adventures in Dimension (1930) — Contribuidor, algumas edições44 exemplares
Analog Anthology #3: Children of the Future (1982) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Operation Future (1955) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Analog Anthology #4: Analog's Lighter Side (1982) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Tales in Time (1997) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ... (1974) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Analog Anthology #9: From Mind to Mind (1984) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 (1949) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
The Night Side: Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible (1947) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Shot in the Dark (1950) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Science-Fiction Classics: The Stories That Morphed Into Movies (1999) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
New Worlds For Old (1963) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Astounding Science Fiction 1949 01 (1949) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection, Volume 3 (1990) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Astounding Science Fiction 1943 06 (1943) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Astounding Science Fiction 1943 12 (1943) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Astounding Science Fiction 1947 01 (1947) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Science Fiction Stories 22 (1973) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Astounding Science Fiction 1946 01 (1946) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Astounding Science Fiction 1945 02 (1936) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
ULLSTEIN 2000 SF STORIES 14 (1972) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Astounding Science Fiction 1947 05 (1947) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Astounding Science Fiction 1945 12 (1945) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
ULLSTEIN 2000 SF STORIES 10 — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
O'Donnell, Lawrence
Liddell, C. H.
Padgett, Lewis
Kuttner, Henry
Moore, Catherine Lucille
Sexo
n/a
País (no mapa)
USA
Nota de desambiguação
Lewis Padgett was the joint pseudonym of the science-fiction authors and spouses Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore. This page should, therefore, not be combined with either of their individual author pages.

Lawrence O'Donnell and C. H. Liddell are also joint pseudonyms of Kuttner and Moore, and those pages also should not be combined with this or with the individual pages.

According to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, all stories attributed to O'Donnell were written by Kuttner and Moore, and no record exists of Kuttner writing solo under the psuedonym O'Donnell.

Membros

Críticas

Reading the Ace Doubles tête-bêche books has introduced me to a wide range of authors from science fiction's "Golden Age," yet the authors of the two novels in this collection were well familiar to me. As a longtime fan of the husband-and-wife writing team of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, their novel Beyond Earth Gates (published under their pseudonym "Lewis Padgett," though with Moore's name curiously added) was the first of the two I read. It's an enjoyable story about a Broadway actor who discovers that the fantastic world described to him by his uncle when he was a young boy indeed exists, as he discovers when his clingy and nagging girlfriend gets sucked into it. Accused of murdering her, he subsequently follows her into a parallel world run by a priesthood whose power comes from their control over the mysteries of mechanical technology. While the plot itself is fairly insubstantial, it's propelled by a fun exploration of the world the authors built and the interesting moral dilemma the protagonist finds himself in as to whether he should intervene in a situation he knows nothing about.

There's no such dilemma in Andre Norton's Daybreak-2250 A.D.. Originally published as Star Man's Son, it's about the journey of a mutant human to the ruins of New York City two centuries after a war (known as "the Blow-Up") devastated human civilization. It's the best kind of adventure story, with the protagonist facing a series of trials, making friends, and gradually realizing his full potential as a person. Norton was an excellent writer, and her book reflects her skill at writing a narrative that grabs the reviewer early on and doesn't let go until the last page. Norton's novel is alone worth the price of the collection, and the other novel that accompanies it is a nice bonus that together demonstrates the sort of entertainment value that made science fiction such a popular genre in the 1950s.
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MacDad | May 25, 2021 |
Lewis Padgett was the joint pseudonym of the science fiction authors and spouses Henry Kuttner and C L Moore taken from their mothers maiden names. As Lewis Padgett they wrote nearly 50 novels from 1941-53. Pulp fiction it maybe but if Tomorrow and Tomorrow published in 1951 is an example then it is still worth a quick read.

The novel starts well with Joseph Breden worried about dozing off at work and then failing the psychological test if anyone reports him. He works in a nuclear reactor as a senior technician and he cannot afford for the reactor to get to critical mass. He has recently been having weird dreams where he does just that. Playing chess with the other senior technician on duty he wonders whether he should confide in her, but he is frightened of losing his job. We learn that this is an alternate time line because after the second world war many countries tested atomic bombs and the devastation frightened the world into forming something called the GPC which controls all atomic weapons. A hundred years later and the GPC control nearly everything and the population of the world suffers restrictions. Any scientific research is discouraged and development has atrophied. Any dissent is investigated and quashed, but the atomic bomb testing has created a number of mutants some of whom have survived. When Joseph Breden finally seeks help, he discovers that he has been hypnotised by a dissident group who have harnessed the powers of a mutant brain that can see the future and who believe that not having an atomic third world war, will see mankind atrophy and die. An interesting idea...................

After an interesting beginning the story gallops quickly towards the finishing post, with mutants, alternative time lines and alternative worlds. The story just about remains coherent, but it hurries too quickly towards the end. For the genre it is reasonably well written and any racism or sexism is difficult to spot. There is a sort of sequel "[The Fairy Chessmen]" which I have downloaded to my kindle 3.5 stars.
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baswood | Apr 19, 2021 |
This short story won the Retro-Hugo award for 1943 in 2018.
A strange man (?) appeared in radio factory in the 1940s USA and constructed something with an outer appearance of radio-phonograph set (you know, the old ones, larger and heavier than a modern TV set). A family buys the set. It appeared to be a kind of household robot, at least at first. Later the story turns much more sinister.
A nice story, as well as several other nominees for the same year. Much stronger than modern shorts, nominated this year. I guess it is linked to the downfall of fiction magazines and preference for writing 3-volume series instead of short stories.
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Oleksandr_Zholud | Jan 9, 2019 |
Indeholder "Lewis Padgett: Den hemmelige magt", "Poul Anderson: Kentaur", "John Pierce: Uforanderlig", "Arthur C. Clarke: PÃ¥ rejse i verdensrummet V".

"Lewis Padgett: Den hemmelige magt" handler om Mike Jerrold, der er på besøg i New York. Tilfældigt opdager han en hel etage befolket med robotter, der ignorerer ham, men ser meget målbevidste og intelligente ud. Et senere besøg får ham i forbindelse med receptionsdamen, Betty, som uden blusel fortæller ham at robotterne styrer hele verden, at de er ret ligeglade med om han får det at vide og at de kan påvirke hans hjerne på afstand vha et lille simpelt instrument, som findes alle vegne. Han tror at det er telefonerne, men det er det ikke. Den nemme løsning er at sige pyt og lade sig behandle, så man er svagt ligeglad, ligesom Betty. Og hvad skal han ellers gøre?
"Poul Anderson: Kentaur" handler om at fjernstyre en kunstigt bygget blågrå kentaur kaldet Joe på overfladen af Jupiter vha radiokontakt og psykograf-teknik fra en af månerne, 180000 km væk. Joe fjernstyres af Edward Anglesey og når han ikke styrer sin Joe, sidder han i kørestol for et uheld for længe siden har gjort ham til håbløs invalid. Der er et problem med fjernstyringen, for de k-rør der bruges går meget oftere i stykker her på Jupiter månen end andre steder. En ekspert i psykograf-teknik, Jan Cornelius, sendes til Jupiter og han gætter hurtigt på at det snarere er et problem om psyke end om k-rør. Joe har sin egen hjerne, som er lige så stor som Edwards og lader sig kun dominere, fordi Edward har styret ham otte timer hver dag siden hans "fødsel". Nu er Joe ved selv at overtage styringen og han ønsker fx at man sender nogle hunner ned til ham. Det bliver Edward talerør for og man sender artsfæller ned til Joe. Til sidst er Edwards tanker og viden helt overført til Joe og Edward lader sig sygne hen og dø. Men nede på Jupiters overflade render Joe Anglesey rundt og glæder sig over sin nye flok. Cornelius og stationsleder Arne Viken diskuterer det og Cornelius gætter på at der er mange, krøblinge eller gamle, der gerne vil styre en Jupiter-kentaur på samme måde.
"John Pierce: Uforanderlig" handler om Homer Green, der har fundet ud af salamandernes trick med vævsregenerering. Den 11 september 1943 prøvede han på sig selv og nu skriver vi 4 august 2170 og for ham og hans hund er det stadig 11 september 1943. Man kan snakke med ham og føre en fornuftig samtale og få minutter efter har han glemt det hele.
"Arthur C. Clarke: På rejse i verdensrummet V" handler om tyngdekraft og hvorfor det er svært at slippe fri af en planets tyngdekraft. Flertrinsraketter er smarte.

Arthur C. Clarkes bidrag er en artikel om emnet, ikke en science fiction novelle.
Poul Anderson: "Kentaur" hedder "Call me Joe" ligner ret meget plottet i James Camerons film Avatar.
Tilsvarende er "John Pierce: Uforanderlig" frygtelig tæt på en af Oliver Sacks historier om en mand uden korttidshukommelse.
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bnielsen | Feb 16, 2013 |

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Obras
36
Also by
51
Membros
411
Popularidade
#59,241
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
9
ISBN
14
Línguas
2

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