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Fury (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)

by Henry Kuttner (Author) "It was white night upon Earth and twilight's dawn on Venus ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (16 Nov 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575071419
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575071414
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 890,619 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Earth is long dead, blasted apart, and the human survivors who settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in an atrophying, class-ridden society ruled by the Immortals - genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Sam Reed was born an immortal, born to rule those with a normal life-span, but his deranged father had him mutilated as a baby so that he wouldn't know of his heritage. And Sam grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and the law, thinking of the Immortals as his enemies. Then he reached the age of eighty, understood what had happened to him and went looking for revenge - and changed his decaying world forever.


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Henry Kuttner (1914-1958) made his first sale to Weird Tales in 1936 and began to publish sf stories the following year. He married C.L. Moore in 1940 and they wrote many stories and novels together under a number of pseudonyms, most notably Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O'Donnell. Fury was one of their collaborations. Henry Kuttner was also the author of the Baldy stories and the Hogpen series.
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4.0 out of 5 stars good story though dated now, 30 Oct 1998
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This review is from: Fury (Hardcover)
The action takes place on a Venus that we don't believe in now. Fast paced, the the way that the characters interact and essential story are as readable now as they ever were. All round this is another example of Henry Kuttners excellent work in this genre.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sci-fi classic, of it's time, but still a good read, 1 Jan 2008
By Jm Leven (London) - See all my reviews
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I haven't read this for years, but I've read it several times, and I'll read it again. It's an easy and compelling read, imaginative and engaging. It's so long since I read it I can't remember the plot, but another reviewer has summed it up well. I remember it as the story of a maverick character who took the first step to bring the human race back to overground living on Venus, where they had been living under the sea for millenia. Kuttner's evocative descriptions of the ferocity ('fury') of the jungle planet on the surface has always stuck in my mind - like one of those speeded up films of a day in a Brazilian rain forest, everything eating everything else.

An enjoyable easy read, and some memorable things about it, but I can't vouch for the writing style, not having read it recently - there tends not to be much style in this genre of this period, but sometimes that's no bad thing.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Stylistic period piece. Worth checking out, 10 Aug 2007
By Rod Williams "hairybloke@aol.com" (London) - See all my reviews
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Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by nuclear war. Humans have fled to live in `Keep's far below the surface of the oceans of Venus since the planet's land masses are covered in jungles inhabited by deadly flora and fauna. The ruling government of this remainder of Humanity is an Oligarchy of immortals, the rest of the race destined to live out normal lifespans.
Against this background is told the story of Sam, the son of Blaze Harker, youngest in a dynasty of a powerful family of immortals. Blaze, however, is borderline insane and, for reasons we need not go into here, has his baby son surgically altered and abandons him to be brought up among the short-lived humans.
The child grows up with the name of Sam Reed, working initially under the tutelage of the Fagin-like Slider.
Meanwhile, the immortal Robin Hale believes that Humanity should be moving out onto the surface of Venus, a policy that the ruling immortals currently oppose.
Sam decides to help, a decision which brings him into conflict with Zachariah Harker, while neither of them are aware of the fact that they are closely related, and from this point on the story is played out with the inevitability of a Shakespeare tragedy.
Stylistically it has that odd juxtaposition of the feudal and the futuristic. For its time the use of drugs and narcotics in a narrative was not standard practice. Addiction features several times, the female surgeon who originally altered Sam's physical appearance for instance was addicted to the lethal embrace of a native life-form which stimulated pure pleasure in her body as it slowly fed on her.
As is common for novels of this period, the concept of genocide (not just a species, but an entire biosphere) is not considered an issue.
For its time, however, it's an original and entertaining piece of work, and one which stands up well to the passage of time.
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