Mutant (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Kuttner
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrasensory powers
- Time of Work: The near future to the twenty-second century
- Setting: Earth
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, Future, Earth, Paranoia, Mutations or mutants
- Locales: Earth
The Plot
This book is composed of five separate stories sharing a common background. The first four—“The Piper’s Son,” “Three Blind Mice,” “The Lion and the Unicorn,” and “Beggars in Velvet”—were published in 1945. The series was popular, but the authors lost interest; the final story, “Humpty Dumpty,” was not published until 1953. When the stories were collected in book form, the authors added framing and linking sections to tie the stories together into a somewhat novellike whole.
Mutant begins two generations after World War II ended...
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