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be read on kindle, Not top priority, not bottom, Early pulp stories by this extremely prolific writer, Thunder Jim is not as good as the later fantasy and SiFi stories but still a good read, Recommended From May through September of, Henery Kuttner published five "Thunder" Jim Wade novelettes in the Thrilling Wonder Stories, Kuttner would go on to science fiction literary success for his many short stories and novels until passing away in.
The Thunder Jim Wade stories were all attributed to "Charles Stoddard", a house pseudonym used by the Thrilling Wonder editors.
Mostly forgotten today, the stories were considered Doc Savage imitations at the time, However, Altus Press printed the complete set two years ago, so now it's possible to read them and compare,
First of all, Thunder Jim has a unique origin: he was raised in a hidden valley by descendant of an ancient Crete civilization.
His father, an famous explorer, crashed his plane in the valley while surveying the area, Thunder Jim survives with the streetwise pilot Miggs, but he's only able to leave the valley as an adult, From the Creteans he's learned he secret of making a metal alloy which makes him wealthy, From Miggs, he's learned all kinds of con artist games and slight of hand tricks, Later, he hooks up with Red Argyle and Dirk Mirat, who become his assistants in all kinds of adventures, From his base of operations in the south pacific, Thunder Jim Wade searches the globe for villains worthy of his talents.

What makes the series of interest is Thunder Jim's allpurpose vehicle: The Thunderbug, The Thunderbug can fly, travel across and under water, or rumble over land on it's retractable treads, Made of the special Cretean alloy, it's just about impervious to bullets or standard explosives, I can't help but wonder if Gerry Anderson read one of these stories and it all came back to him when he was planning Supercar and Thunderbirds.

There are five stories in this collection, The opening story has Thunder Jim journeying back to the lost valley where he was raised to stop a band of criminals from looting the place.
"The Hills of Gold" takes place near Iraq, of all places, "The Poison People" leads him to South America where a band of cutthroats are attempting to loot Inca treasure from it's rightful owners.
"The Devil's Glacier" is another lost valley novelette, this time with vikings, "Waters of Death"
concludes the series in a lost southeast Asian civilization,
It's too bad the series was canceled before it got rolling, There's plenty of local atmosphere in each tale, Some of them have the feel of sketches perhaps Kuttner had to shorten them for space limitations, Still, it's good to have all the stories back in one volume, Available for the first time, . . the complete saga of Thunder Jim Wade! Written by fantasy legend Henry Kuttner, this collection reprints all five adventures of Thunder Jim Wade from.
Long discounted as a Doc Savage clone, THUNDER JIM WADE: THE COMPLETE SERIES brings to life this classic pulp hero and shows him to be much more than a knockoff! Includes an allnew introduction by pulp historian Will Murray! Great pulp adventure!

This was like reading a Doc Savage story, but, at the risk of blasphemy, I think Henry Kuttner wrote better than Lester Dent.
It's too bad Kuttner only wrotestories, I would've loved to read more! Henry Kuttner was, alone and in collaboration with his wife, the great science fiction and fantasy writer sitelink C.
L. Moore, one of the four or five most important writers of thes, the writer whose work went furthest in its sociological and psychological insight to making science fiction a human as well as technological literature.
He was an important influence upon every contemporary and every science fiction writer who succeeded him, In the earlys and under many pseudonyms, Kuttner and Moore published very widely through the range of the science fiction and fantasy pulp markets.
Their fantasy novels, all of them for the lower grade markets like Future, Thrilling Wonder, and Planet Stories, are forgotten now their science fiction novel Henry Kuttner was, alone and in collaboration with his wife, the great science fiction and fantasy writer sitelink C.
L. Moore, one of the four or five most important writers of thes, the writer whose work went furthest in its sociological and psychological insight to making science fiction a human as well as technological literature.
He was an important influence upon every contemporary and every science fiction writer who succeeded him, In the earlys and under many pseudonyms, Kuttner and Moore published very widely through the range of the science fiction and fantasy pulp markets.
Their fantasy novels, all of them for the lower grade markets like Future, Thrilling Wonder, and Planet Stories, are

forgotten now their science fiction novels, Fury and Mutant, are however well regarded.
There is no question but that Kuttner's talent lay primarily in the shorter form Mutant is an amalgamation of five novelettes and Fury, his only true science fiction novel, is considered as secondary material.
There are, however,orshorter works which are among the most significant achievements in the field and they remain consistently in print.
The critic James Blish, quoting a passage from Mutant about the telepathic perception of the little blank, silvery minds of goldfish, noted that writing of this quality was not only rare in science fiction but rare throughout literature: "The Kuttners learned a few thing writing for the pulp magazines, however, that one doesn't learn reading Henry James.
" In the earlys, Kuttner and Moore, both citing weariness with writing, even creative exhaustion, turned away from science fiction both obtained undergraduate degrees in psychology from the University of Southern California and Henry Kuttner, enrolled in an MA program, planned to be a clinical psychologist.
A few science fiction short stories and novelettes appeared Humpty Dumpty finished the Baldy series in, Those stories Home There Is No Returning, Home Is the Hunter, Two Handed Engine, and Rite of Passage were at the highest level of Kuttner's work.
He also published three mystery novels with Harper Row of which only the first is certainly his the other two, apparently, were farmed out by Kuttner to other writers when he found himself incapable of finishing them.
Henry Kuttner died suddenly in his sleep, probably from a stroke, in FebruaryCatherine Moore remarried a physician and survived him by almost three decades but she never published again.
She remained in touch with the science fiction community, however, and was Guest of Honor at the World Convention in Denver inl.
She died of complications of Alzheimer's Disease in, His pseudonyms include:Edward J, Bellin Paul Edmonds Noel Gardner Will Garth James Hall Keith Hammond Hudson Hastings Peter Horn Kelvin Kent Robert O, Kenyon C. H. Liddell Hugh Maepenn Scott Morgan sitelink Lawrence O'Donnell sitelink Lewis Padgett Woodrow Wilson Smith Charles Stoddard sitelink,