The Last Mimzy: And Other Stories Originally published as The Best of Henry Kuttner-Fast Shipping

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The Last Mimzy is the ideal introduction to an author who was ahead of his time—and whose time has finally come

These seventeen classic stories create their own uniquegalaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angryaliens. In “Mimsy Were the Borogoves”—the inspiration for New Line Cinema’s majormotion picture The Last Mimzy—a boy finds a discarded box containing a treasure troveof curious objects. When he and his sister begin to play with these trinkets—includinga crystal cube that magnifies the unimaginable and a strange doll with removableorgans that don’t quite correspond to those of the human body—their parents growconcerned. And they should be. For the items are changing the way the children thinkand perceive the world around them—for better or worse.

Ray Bradbury called HenryKuttner “a man who shaped science fiction and fantasy in its most important years.”Marion Zimmer Bradley and Roger Zelazny said he was a major inspiration. Kuttnerwas a writer’s writer whose visionary works anticipated our own computer-controlled,machine-made world. At the time of his death at forty-two in 1958, he had createdas many as 170 stories under more than a dozen pseudonyms—sometimes writing entireissues of science fiction magazines—in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore.

This definitive collection will be a revelation to those who wish to discover orrediscover Henry Kuttner, a true master of the universe.