Ahead of Time is a collection of science fiction stories by the American writer Henry Kuttner, first published in hardcover by Ballantine Books in 1953, with a paperback edition shortly afterwards. A British hardcover appeared in 1954, with a paperback following in 1961. Paperback reissues of both the UK and US editions appeared in the mid-1960s. A French translation appeared in 1962 and an Italian translation in 1971.[1]
Stories marked with an asterisk (*) have been identified as collaborations by Kuttner and his wife, C. L. Moore.[2]
Reception
Boucher and McComas, describing Kuttner as "one of s.f.'s most literate and intelligent storytellers", found the collection to be "just about as good as the modern magazine science-fantasy story can get".[3]P. Schuyler Miller similarly reported that Ahead of Time was "as good as any of the short-story collections now being published".[4]New Worlds reviewer Leslie Flood described Ahead of Time as "excellent".[5]
