Time ago! and other incredible stories

Henry Kattner, published not only under his real name, but also under a good dozen pseudonyms, is considered one of the four or five leading American science fiction writers of the 1940s. Legendary genre magazines, such as "Future", "Thrilling Wonder", "Planet Stories" and "Weird Tales", more than eagerly accepted the works written by him independently or in co -authorship with his wife, a famous master of science fiction and fantasy Katherine Lucille Moore that the whole release of the magazine was allocated for the work of Kattner. Almost everything created by this author has a shade of genius, but he especially succeeded in a "small literary form": stories about hogben mutants, about the eccentric inventor of Galleger and many others, flavored with inimitable humor, several generations of readers instilled a persistent love of science fiction.
Almost all the works included in this collection are published in Russian for the first time or in a new translation. The story "God named Cro" and "Children"s Hour" awarded the prize "Hugo"