Fury

Henry Kuttner

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Originally serialised in "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1947. First book edition in 1950. Later republished as Destination: Infinity.

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The Earth is long since dead, blasted in a self sustaining chain reaction. Human survivors settled on Venus have organized themselves into a static, class-ridden society living in huge citadels buried beneath the Venusian seas.

The rulers are Immortals, genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Their subjects are the ordinary people – with normal life-spans.

Sam Reed's insane father had him mutilated as a baby so that he doesn't realize he's an Immortal until he reaches the age of eighty.

Then he goes looking for revenge...

Published
1950
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Henry Kuttner

Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror. His wife was the science fiction author [author_link_857]. Henry Kuttner used several pseudonyms: Lawrence O'Donnell, Kelvin Kent, C. H. Liddell, Henry Kuttner, [author_link_858], Hudson Hastings, Keith Hammond, Peter Horn, Scott Morgan, Will Garth, Woodrow Wilson Smith, Paul Edmonds, Edward J. Bellin, James Hall and Robert O. Kenyon. Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915. His father, whose Jewish parents had come from Prussia and lived in San Francisco since 1859, was a bookseller; the parents of his mother, were from Great Britain.…