Book cover Hogben and all-all-all
Högbeny are fantastic literary characters created by American science fiction writers Henry Kuttner and his wife Catherine Moore . The stories about the Hogben mutants are rightfully considered to be classics of humorous fiction , they can be attributed to philosophical and satirical fiction [1] .
Written in the name of Hogben’s middle son, a simple Sonka, he mocks American life and the inhabitants of the Midwest of the 1940s . The action takes place in Kentucky , in the rural American outback.
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Characters
Mutants Hogben at Kuttner - came from the dead Atlantis [2] .
- Sonk Hogben , the middle son of the family, lost count of his age under Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell , although he looks eighteen, can fly , become invisible , instantly travel in space, split , transmute elements and create the most complex technical devices on an intuitive level without the slightest knowledge of the laws of physics.
- Baby Tiny Sam , the youngest son of Hogben, a two-headed baby, about four hundred years old, weighing about one hundred thirty kilograms (eight poods ), lives in a cistern, screams ultrasound and can predict the future.
- Daddy , the father of the family, an invisible alcoholic, has the ability to teleport maize vodka from any tank directly into the blood and turn alcohol into glucose (and vice versa). Is in a state of permanent intoxication. Born to Julius Caesar .
- Mommy , a good and sensible housewife. "Able to emit a directional beam of infrasonic waves" to influence the annoying pesky.
- Grandpa , the family's brain, sleeps all the time, communicates telepathically with the family. Born after the flood in Atlantis . The same can predict the future.
- Uncle Les (Leicester), a blockhead, loves to fly, has 2 hearts in the chest (one gold ) and there is an indirect mention of the ability of invisibility.
- Uncle Lem (Lemuel), from Southern Kentucky , has 3 legs (the third (central) masks with a hump tucking back), hibernates for a year, lazy to complete inability to cook for himself - he gets hungry, he hypnotizes the raccoons , and they themselves collect the brushwood and fry yourself.
- Prohvessor Thomas Galbraith from New York , lives with Hogbens in a small bottle, because he threatened to investigate them in full science.
Hogben Cycle Works ( Hogben )
- War Games ( eng. The Old Army Game ), ( 1941 )
- The Prohvorsor is covered (in another translation - "Less Professor", Eng. Exit the Professor ), ( 1947 )
- The boiler with troubles ( eng. Pile of Trouble ), ( 1948 ), in the Russian translation also "Sheer Trouble" [3] .
- See you later! ( eng. See You Later ), ( 1949 )
- Pkhi-chologichesky war ( English Cold War ), ( 1949 )
Notes
- ↑ Smelkov Yu. S. Humanism of the technical era // Questions of literature . - 1973. - № 11 . - pp . 43-71 .
- ↑ J. Verov, I. Minakov. On fantastic assumptions and other terrible things // If . - 2009. - № 3 .
- ↑ Henry Kuttner . “Big Trouble” Collection “For Sale Planet”, Minsk, Publishing House of the University, 1986
Links
- Cycle in the Fiction Lab
- ISFDB cycle
- Sergey Berezhnoy . Human Ego (Review of the Hogben Collection and All-All-All) , 1998
- Max Fry . Hogbens are always somewhere near . gazeta.ru (July 26, 1999).