The professor was covered! And other fantastic troubles. Kattner G.

Henry Kattner, published not only under his real name, but also under a good dozen pseudonyms, is considered one of the four or five leading American science fiction writers of the 1940s. The legendary genre magazines, such as Future, Thrilling Wonder, Planet Stories and Weird Tales, more than willingly accepted the works written by him independently or in co -authorship with his wife, the famous science fiction master and fantasy Katherine Lucille Moore; It happened that the whole release of the magazine was allocated for the work of Kattner.

Almost everything created by this author has a shade of genius, but he especially succeeded in a “small literary form”: stories about hogben mutants, about the eccentric inventor Gallegrus and many others, flavored with inimitable humor, several generations of readers, instilled a persistent Love for science fiction.

The novel “Night Fight”, awarded the Retrospective Prize “Hugo”, is a prior to the famous novel “Fury”. The same prize was awarded the stories “The branch broke off, the cradle flew”, “What you need”, “There is nowhere to retreat.” The book includes the best, won the world's stories of a great master, including a cycle who is beloved by many about an unusual Hogben family!