Dictator of the Americas
By Henry Kuttner and Karl Wurf
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Could John Stone and that lovely green-eyed Aphrodite free themselves from the mad Dictator who ruthlessly ruled the Americas of 2503 A.D.—with every fiendish scientific device of that generation at his hellish call?
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Dictator of the Americas - Henry Kuttner
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
DICTATOR OF THE AMERICAS
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Copyright © 2021 by Wildside Press LLC.
Introduction copyright © 2021 by Karl Wurf.
Originally published in Marvel Science Stories, August 1938, under the pseudonym James Hall.
Published by Wildside Press LLC.
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INTRODUCTION
Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915. As a young man, he worked in his spare time for the literary agency of his uncle, Laurence D’Orsay (in fact his first cousin by marriage), in Los Angeles before selling his first story, The Graveyard Rats,
to Weird Tales in early 1936. It was while working for the d’Orsay Agency that Kuttner picked Leigh Brackett’s early manuscripts off the slush pile. It was under his tutelage that she sold her first story (to John W. Campbell at Astounding Stories).
Kuttner was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C.L. Moore. They met through their association with the Lovecraft Circle,
a group of writers and fans who corresponded with H.P. Lovecraft. Their work together spanned the 1940s and 1950s, with most of it credited to pseudonyms (mainly Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O’Donnell).
L. Sprague de Camp, who knew Kuttner and Moore well, has stated that their collaboration was so seamless that, after a story was completed, it was often impossible for either Kuttner or Moore to recall who had written what. According to de Camp, it was typical for either partner to break off from a story in mid-paragraph or even mid-sentence, with the latest page of the manuscript still in the typewriter. The other spouse would routinely continue the story where the first had