Cover artist Ric Binkley Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1953 OCLC 1689391 | Country United States Publication date 1953 Pages 210 pp Publisher Gnome Press | |
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Genres Short story, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Henry Kuttner books, Science Fiction books | ||
Mutant is a 1953 collection of science fiction short stories by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). It was first published by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.
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P. Schuyler Miller found the story compilation nearly as effective as Simak's City. Groff Conklin, reviewing the 1953 edition for Galaxy, characterized it as "among the most mature, imaginative and moving pictures of a post-atomic-war world." While Boucher and McComas praised the stories as "splendid statements of the difficulties of adjustment between man and esper-man," they found that taken together they became "repetitive in plot and situation." Writing for the New York Times, McComas declared that Kuttner's treatment of the theme was "so perfect, so complete" that all subsequent writers "have been confined within his all-embracing framework" and praised the volume as "a beguiling story rich in reading entertainment."