Weird Tales vol. 34, no. 5 (November 1939)
I mean, we've got vultures, and we've got a dead body, but we don't have the courage to show the one eating the other?
Not sure what's going on with that white thing over his legs. Is the vulture using a napkin?
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v34n05_1939-11
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Cover story is by Henry Kuttner, another justifiably very famous author.
"...worked in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore." [the latter is also very famous] "...most of the work was credited to pseudonyms, mainly Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O'Donnell."
"L. Sprague de Camp, who knew Kuttner and Moore well, has stated that their collaboration was so seamless that, after a story was completed, it was often impossible for either Kuttner or Moore to recall who had written what"
"...Marion Zimmer Bradley is among many authors who have cited Kuttner as an influence. Her novel The Bloody Sun is dedicated to him. Roger Zelazny has talked about the influence of The Dark World on his Amber series"
"... But Kuttner cheated himself of much fame that he richly deserved by hiding his light under a bushel of pen names that many fans did not know were his. "
Some of his most famous stories included the inventor Gallegher, who created amazing things while blind drunk, such as "The Proud Robot" (as 'Lewis Padgett, 1943, frequently reprinted)
Also "The Twonky" (as Lewis Padgett, 1942), adapted for film of the same name in 1953
The Best of Henry Kuttner anthologizes 17 stories. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975).
And much more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kuttner
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From the C. L. Moore wikipedia page:
"They continued to work in science fiction and fantasy, and their works include two frequently anthologized sci-fi classics: "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" (February 1943), the basis for the film The Last Mimzy (2007), and Vintage Season (September 1946), the basis for the film Timescape (1992)."
Films have never come close to being as good as the Kuttner/Moore/Padget stories they were based on. The above-mentioned 'Mimsy Were the Borogoves' is one of my absolute favorites; go out of your way to find that, if nothing else.
"In 1981, Moore received two annual awards for her career in fantasy literature: the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, chosen by a panel of judges at the World Fantasy Convention, and the Gandalf Grand Master Award, chosen by vote of participants in the World Science Fiction Convention.[8] (Thus she became the eighth and final Grand Master of Fantasy" [plus more awards listed on page]
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