We all know Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC and the show The West Wing

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But did anyone here know that the name "Lawrence O'Donnell" was also a pseudonym for the writing pair Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore?

I didn't realize that until I was reading an anthology of early Science Fiction stories and one was attributed to the pair writing under that name!

"Vintage Season" is probably one of the most famous - published in 1946, it was later loosely adapted into the 1992 American film Timescape, also titled Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, starring Jeff Daniels.

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1. He was also an actor

I mean the one on MSNBC. I was watching reruns of Monk, and there a younger Larry was as a judge.

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2. Yes, I've seen that episode

I just thought it was amazing to find the same name on a science fiction novella written before the currently popular Lawrence O'Donnell was born!

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5. O'Donnell also played Jed Bartlett's father in TWW.

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3. I love their work! "Vintage Season" is one of the best SF stories of all time...

...and both of them, under their own names, "O'Donnell", and "Lewis Padgett", wrote some great work. Try "Fury"--mostly by Kuttner--and "Judgment Night", by Moore. The latter is from 1944, and hasn't aged a day. My favorite all-time space opera, haunting and evocative...

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4. My favorites are the short stories in "Robots Have No Tails"

But C. L. Moore admitted that Henry Kuttner actually wrote all of those stories and published them under the name Lewis Padgett.

Interesting fact - "They (Kuttener and Moore) met through their association with the "Lovecraft Circle", a group of writers and fans who corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kuttner#Kuttner_and_Moore