FURY

In the 1960's, when I was at school, I read a lot of sf paperbacks including ones by Poul Anderson although he was not yet a favourite. He is now. In some cases, I wanted to read every work by a particular author, e.g., Asimov, Blish, Heinlein and Simak. Anderson was not yet on that list. He is now. In other cases, I knew of an author only by a single work, e.g., Henry Kuttner, Fury; Ward Moore, Bring The Jubilee. 

I have a copy of the Mayflower-Dell Paperback Fury, 1963, that I had then. See image. It cannot be the same copy if only because this one is stamped "Market Bookstall, Lancaster." (That alone dates it considerably even within Lancaster.) However, I do not remember rereading this novel since the 1960's. 

My current questions are:

How does this novel by Henry Kuttner measure up to what Anderson and others were writing back then?

What will I think about the novel if I reread it now?

We recognized and took for granted some common ideas among sf writers. For example, Fury is about:

"...Sam Reed, an Immortal."

-Groff Conklin, FOREWORD IN Henry Kuttner, Fury (London, 1963, reissued June 1966), p. 5.

So how will Kuttner's "Immortal" compare with those of Anderson and others?

I remember that the INTRODUCTION began:

"It was white night on Earth..." (p. 3)

(Why "white"?)

- and that the EPILOGUE consisted of two words:

"Sam woke -" (p. 190)

We might post about Fury while continuing to reread Anderson's Starfarers and also, in my case, to reread yet again Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.

Laters.