He was born in Los Angeles in 1915. Being left without a father early, he lived in poverty and as a teenager was forced to earn . Thanks to his bright and peculiar literary talent, Henry Kuttner began to publish in magazines, barely twenty years old, and quickly became one of the main masters of the golden age of fiction. He tried many genres and used more than fifteen pseudonyms, as a result of which the exact number of works he wrote cannot be determined. And there was also a creative tandem with his wife, and Catherine Lucille Moore, also a well-known science fiction writer, played a huge role in his life; they were often published under one pseudonym (even under the name of Kutner). And even though Henry did not take his writing career seriously and dreamed of becoming a clinical psychiatrist, his contribution to fiction cannot be overestimated, and fans of his work in Russia are hardly less than in his homeland. This volume includes stories and short stories written during the period of Kattner's close cooperation with American "palp magazines", when he was passionate about the topic of "space odysseys", adventures in space. In Russian, most of these works are published for the first time.