The story follows a repetitive cycle, with many different civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first. Still, Raft was a doctor, and when those drums throbbed in the jungle something curious happened here in his little hospital of plastic shacks, smelling of antiseptic.Ī work of unprecedented scale, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive. He left all that to Dan Craddock, with his Welsh ghosts and his shadow-people of the lost centuries. Kuttner’s writing depicts another world, with a warrior race and man-beings who cannot stand a woman appointed to rule them: Raft wasn’t an imaginative man. Henry Kuttner’s groundbreaking Fantasy work of time, warriors, women and cats. 25th 2008***īy Henry Kuttner (writing as Keith Hammond)Ī short 1946 novel, 96 pages long.
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