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{{Short description|1953 collection of science fiction short stories by Lewis Padgett}}
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| author        = [[Lewis Padgett]]
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| cover_artist  = Ric Binkley
| country       = United States
| language      = English
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| publisher     = [[Gnome Press]]
| release_date  = 1953
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| media_type    = Print (hardback)
| pages         = 210
| oclc          = 1689391
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'''''Mutant''''' is a 1953 collection of [[science fiction]] short stories by [[Lewis Padgett]] (pseudonym of American writer [[Henry Kuttner]] and [[C. L. Moore]]).  It was first published by [[Gnome Press]] in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies.  The stories all originally appeared in the magazine ''[[Astounding Science Fiction|Astounding]]''.
==Contents==
* "The Piper’s Son"
* "Three Blind Mice"
* "The Lion and the Unicorn"
* "Beggars in Velvet"
* "Humpty Dumpty"
* Epilogue
==Reception==
[[P. Schuyler Miller]] found the story compilation nearly as effective as [[Clifford D. Simak|Simak's]] ''[[City (novel)|City]]''.<ref>"The Reference Library", ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'', August 1954, p.155</ref> [[Groff Conklin]], reviewing the 1953 edition for [[Galaxy Science Fiction|''Galaxy'']], characterized it as "among the most mature, imaginative and moving pictures of a post-atomic-war world."<ref>"Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'', May 1954, p.129</ref> While [[Anthony Boucher|Boucher]] and [[J. Francis McComas|McComas]] praised the stories as "splendid statements of the difficulties of adjustment between man and esper-man," they found that taken together they became "repetitive in plot and situation."<ref>"Recommended Reading," ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]]'', April 1954, p.73.</ref> Writing for the ''[[New York Times]]'', McComas declared that Kuttner's treatment of the theme was "so perfect, so complete" that all subsequent writers "have been confined within his all-embracing framework" and praised the volume as "a beguiling story rich in reading entertainment."<ref>"Spaceman's Realm", ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'', December 20, 1953, p.17</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Sources==
*{{cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker |author2=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=301 | year=1998}}
*{{cite web |last = Contento  |first = William G. |authorlink = |title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections |publisher = |url = http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/t75.htm#A1633 |format = |doi = |accessdate = 2008-02-28 }}
==External links==
* {{StandardEbooks|Standard Ebooks URL=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-kuttner/short-fiction|Display Name=A collection of Henry Kuttner's short fiction in the public domain|noitalics=true}}
* {{isfdb title|id=38206|title=Mutants}}
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