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Cargando... Robots Have No Tails (1952 original; edición 1952)por Henry Kuttner (Autor), C.L. Moore (Introducción)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. These are pretty typical pulp stories of the 1940s; they're cheesy and breezy. However, I have a fondness for authors of that era in general and the Kuttner/Moore marriage in specific, so it was fun to read these...even though Moore didn't participate in writing this particular set about Galloway Gallegher, the scientist who is a genius only when drunk. All stories revolve around one character – Galloway Gallegher. This man is an inventor. A very good inventor. A genius, in fact. Well… his subconscious is. But only when Gallegher is drunk. Very drunk. So drunk in fact, that Gallegher can never remember exactly what his subconscious (Gallegher Plus) invented, or why. Complete review at: The Great Gnome Press Science Fiction Odyssey, and a close-up examination of the book itself.
Unreal, true; farce, yes--but there's a chuckle on every page, and a belly laugh in every chapter. A worthwhile addition to any s-f connoisseur's library.
A complete collection of Galloway Gallegher stories from "one of the major names in science fiction" (The New York Times). In this comprehensive collection, Henry Kuttner is back with Galloway Gallegher, his most beloved character in the stories that helped make him famous. Gallegher is a binge-drinking scientist who's a genius when drunk and totally clueless sober. Hounded by creditors and government officials, he wakes from each bender to discover a new invention designed to solve all his problems--if only he knew how it worked . . . Add a vain and uncooperative robot assistant, a heckling grandfather, and a host of uninvited guests--from rabbit-like aliens to time-traveling mafia lawyers to his own future corpse--and Gallegher has more on his hands than even he can handle. Time for another drink! "[A] pomegranate writer: popping with seeds--full of ideas." --Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 421 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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