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The Best of Kuttner Volume I
Henry Kuttner
A Mayflower Paperback

CONTENTS
Or Else
Year Day
Shock
See You Later
The Proud Robot
The Ego Machine
Juke Box
Cold War
Call Him Demon
The Piper's Son
Absalom
Housing Problem
A Gnome There Was
The Big Night
Don't Look Now

THE BEST OF KUTTNER 1
Henry Kuttner

Copyright (c) Henry Kuttner
First publication in this form
Published as a Mayflower Paperback 1965
Reprinted 1970.
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registered under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956.
Mayflower Paperbacks are published by Mayflower Books, 3 Upper James Street, London
Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk


OR ELSE

Miguel and Fernandez were shooting inaccurately at each other across the valley when the flying
saucer landed. They wasted a few bullets on the strange airship. The pilot appeared and began to
walk across the valley and up the slope toward Miguel, who lay in the uncertain shade of a cholla,
swearing and working the bolt of his rifle as rapidly as he could. His aim, never good, grew worse
as the stranger approached. Finally, at the last minute, Miguel dropped his rifle, seized the
machete beside him, and sprang to his feet.
"Die then," he said, and swung the blade. The steel blazed in the hot Mexican sun. The machete
rebounded elastically from the stranger's neck and flew high in the air, while Miguel's arm