Fury (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Kuttner
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: About seven hundred years in the future
- Setting: Venus
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Immortality, Future, Other worlds, Venus, Amnesia
- Locales: Venus
The Plot
This novel is a sequel to “Clash by Night” (Astounding Science-Fiction, March, 1943), which told of the Free Companions, mercenaries hired to fight for the warring human colonies on Venus so that what is left of human civilization after the atomic destruction of Earth has a chance to prosper in the Keeps, domed cities on the ocean floor. The Free Companions play only a minor role in Fury, which takes place several decades later, when the Keeps have been united and most of the Free Companions have died. Fury relates the great contest of wills...
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