He was born in Los Angeles in 1915. Left without a father at an early age, he lived in poverty and was forced to earn money while still a teenager. Henry Kuttner's brilliant and idiosyncratic literary talent began publishing in magazines when he was just twenty years old and quickly became one of the leading masters of the golden age of science fiction. He tried many genres and used more than fifteen pseudonyms, as a result of which it is impossible to determine the exact number of works he wrote. There was also a creative tandem with his wife, and Catherine Lucille Moore, also a famous science fiction writer, played a huge role in his life; they were often published under the same pseudonym (even under Kuttner's own name). And although Henry did not take his writing career seriously and dreamed of becoming a clinical psychiatrist, his contribution to science fiction cannot be overestimated, and there are hardly fewer fans of his work in Russia than in his homeland. This volume includes novels and stories written during the period Kuttner’s close collaboration with American “pulp magazines”, when he was fascinated by the topic of “space odysseys”, adventures in space. Most of these works are published in Russian for the first time.