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The Best Of Fredric Brown
''The Best of Fredric Brown'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Fredric Brown, edited by Robert Bloch. It was first published in hardback by Nelson Doubleday in January 1977 and in paperback by Ballantine Books in May of the same year as a volume in its Classic Library of Science Fiction. The book has been translated into German and Spanish. Summary The book contains thirty-one short works of fiction by the author, together with an introduction by editor Robert Bloch. Contents *"Introduction" (Robert Bloch) *"Arena" (from ''Astounding Science Fiction'', Jun. 1944) *"Imagine" (poem) (from ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', May 1955) *"It Didn't Happen" (from ''Playboy'', Oct. 1963) *"Recessional" (from '' The Dude'', Mar. 1960) *"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" (with Carl Onspaugh) (from ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', Jun. 1965) *"Puppet Show" (from ''Playboy'', Nov. 1962) *"Nightmare in Yellow" (from ''Nightmares and Geeze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena (short Story)
"Arena" is a science fiction short story by American writer Fredric Brown, first published in the June 1944 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction'' magazine. The members of the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it as one of the best science fiction stories published before the advent of the Nebula Awards, and as such it was included in ''The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964''. Plot summary Amid escalating conflict between Earth and mysterious alien Outsiders, massive armadas from both sides are set to meet in what looks to be an evenly matched battle. Bob Carson, the pilot of a small one-man scout ship, blacks out while engaging with an Outsider counterpart. When he awakens, he finds himself naked in a small enclosed, circular area about across. In the distance is an Outsider, which Carson labels a "Roller" because its form is that of a red sphere about in diameter with about a dozen thin, retractable tentacles. Carson hears a voice in his mind th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unknown (magazine)
''Unknown'' (also known as ''Unknown Worlds'') was an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1943 by Street & Smith, and edited by John W. Campbell. ''Unknown'' was a companion to Street & Smith's science fiction pulp, ''Astounding Science Fiction'', which was also edited by Campbell at the time; many authors and illustrators contributed to both magazines. The leading fantasy magazine in the 1930s was ''Weird Tales'', which focused on shock and horror. Campbell wanted to publish a fantasy magazine with more finesse and humor than ''Weird Tales'', and put his plans into action when Eric Frank Russell sent him the manuscript of his novel '' Sinister Barrier'', about aliens who own the human race. ''Unknown''s first issue appeared in March 1939; in addition to ''Sinister Barrier'', it included H. L. Gold's "Trouble With Water", a humorous fantasy about a New Yorker who meets a water gnome. Gold's story was the first of many in ''Unknown'' to combine commonpl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Future (magazine)
''Captain Future'' was a science fiction pulp magazine launched in 1940 by Better Publications, and edited initially by Mort Weisinger. It featured the adventures of Captain Future, a super-scientist whose real name was Curt Newton, in every issue. All but two of the novels in the magazine were written by Edmond Hamilton; the other two were by Joseph Samachson. The magazine also published other stories that had nothing to do with the title character, including Fredric Brown's first science fiction sale, "Not Yet the End". ''Captain Future'' published unabashed space opera, and was, in the words of science fiction historian Mike Ashley, "perhaps the most juvenile" of the science fiction pulps to appear in the early years of World War II. Wartime paper shortages eventually led to the magazine's cancellation: the last issue was dated Spring 1944. Publication history and contents Although science fiction (sf) had been published before the 1920s, it did not begin to coalesce i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planet Stories
''Planet Stories'' was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on some other planets, and was initially focused on a young readership. Malcolm Reiss was editor or editor-in-chief for all of its 71 issues. ''Planet Stories'' was launched at the same time as ''Planet Comics'', the success of which probably helped to fund the early issues of ''Planet Stories''. ''Planet Stories'' did not pay well enough to regularly attract the leading science fiction writers of the day, but occasionally obtained work from well-known authors, including Isaac Asimov and Clifford D. Simak. In 1952 ''Planet Stories'' published Philip K. Dick's first sale, and printed four more of his stories over the next three years. The two writers most identified with ''Planet Stories'' are Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury, both of whom set many of their stories on a romanticized version of Mars that o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knock (short Story)
"Knock" is a science fiction short story by American writer Fredric Brown. It begins with a piece of Flash fiction based on the following passage by Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Fredric Brown condensed this text into "a sweet little action story that is only two sentences long". "Knock" then goes on to elaborate on those two sentences and build a more complete plot around them. It was published in the December 1948 issue of ''Thrilling Wonder Stories''. There have been three different radio adaptations ('' Dimension X'', ''X Minus One'' and Sci Fi Channel's ''Seeing Ear Theatre''). The story was reprinted in '' The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949''Everett F. Bieler & T. E. Dikty, eds., '' The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949'' New York: Frederick Fell, Aug. 1949, 314 pp. Plot summary The first two lines are a complete story by themselves: Reception The story won the 2012 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award honors underread science fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weird Tales
''Weird Tales'' is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, printed early work by H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and Clark Ashton Smith, all of whom went on to be popular writers, but within a year, the magazine was in financial trouble. Henneberger sold his interest in the publisher, Rural Publishing Corporation, to Lansinger, and refinanced ''Weird Tales'', with Farnsworth Wright as the new editor. The first issue under Wright's control was dated November 1924. The magazine was more successful under Wright, and despite occasional financial setbacks, it prospered over the next 15 years. Under Wright's control, the magazine lived up to its subtitle, "The Unique Magazine", and published a wide range of unusual fiction. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos stories first appeared in ''Weird Tales'', starti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels And Spaceships
''Angels and Spaceships'' is a 1954 collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American writer Fredric Brown. It was initially published in hardcover by E. P. Dutton; a later Bantam paperback edition was retitled ''Star Shine''. Contents *"Introduction" (original essay by author) *"Pattern" (original) *"Placet is a Crazy Place" ( ''Astounding'' 1946) *"Answer" (original) *"Etaoin Shrdlu" ( ''Unknown'' 1942) *"Preposterous" (original) *"Armageddon" ''Unknown'' 1941) *"Politeness" (original) *" The Waveries" (''Astounding'' 1945) *"Reconciliation" (original) *"The Hat Trick" (''Unknown'' 1943) *"Search" (original) *"Letter to a Phoenix" (''Astounding'' 1949) *"Daisies" (original) *"The Angelic Angleworm" (''Unknown'' 1943) *"Sentence" (original) *"The Yehudi Principle" (''Astounding'' 1944) *"Solipsist" (original) The original stories are generally very short vignettes. Reception Anthony Boucher found the collection "contains a little of everything, from screwball fant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonder Stories
''Wonder Stories'' was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, ''Amazing Stories'', when his media company Experimenter Publishing went bankrupt. Within a few months of the bankruptcy, Gernsback launched three new magazines: ''Air Wonder Stories'', ''Science Wonder Stories'', and ''Science Wonder Quarterly''. ''Air Wonder Stories'' and ''Science Wonder Stories'' were merged in 1930 as ''Wonder Stories'', and the quarterly was renamed ''Wonder Stories Quarterly''. The magazines were not financially successful, and in 1936 Gernsback sold ''Wonder Stories'' to Ned Pines at Beacon Publications, where, retitled ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'', it continued for nearly 20 years. The last issue was dated Winter 1955, and the title was then merged with '' Startling Stories'', another of Pines' science fiction magazines. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy Science Fiction
''Galaxy Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L. Gold, who rapidly made ''Galaxy'' the leading science fiction magazine of its time, focusing on stories about social issues rather than technology. Gold published many notable stories during his tenure, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fireman", later expanded as ''Fahrenheit 451''; Robert A. Heinlein's ''The Puppet Masters''; and Alfred Bester's ''The Demolished Man''. In 1952, the magazine was acquired by Robert Guinn, its printer. By the late 1950s, Frederik Pohl was helping Gold with most aspects of the magazine's production. When Gold's health worsened, Pohl took over as editor, starting officially at the end of 1961, though he had been doing the majority of the production work for some time. Under Pohl ''Gala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightmares And Geezenstacks
''Nightmares and Geezenstacks'' is a short story collection consisting of 47 horror, science fiction and crime stories by American writer Fredric Brown. It was first published in 1961 by Bantam Books and most recently republished by Valancourt Books. Contents * ''Nasty'' * ''Abominable'' * ''Rebound'' €śThe Power” * ''Nightmare in Gray'' * ''Nightmare in Green'' * ''Nightmare in White'' * ''Nightmare in Blue'' * ''Nightmare in Yellow'' * ''Nightmare in Red'' * ''Unfortunately'' * ''Granny’s Birthday'' * ''Cat Burglar'' * ''The House'' * ''Second Chance'' * ''Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility'' * ''Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability'' * ''Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality'' * ''Dead Letter'' €śThe Letter” * ''Recessional'' * ''Hobbyist'' * ''The Ring of Hans Carvel'' * ''Vengeance Fleet'' €śVengeance, Unlimited”* ''Rope Trick'' * ''Fatal Error'' €śThe Perfect Crime” * ''The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I'' * ''The Short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dude (magazine)
''The Dude: The Magazine Devoted to Pleasure'' was a men's magazine of the 1950s that was published bi-monthly by the Mystery Publishing Co., Inc. at 48 West 48th Street, New York, New York. The magazine was published from August 1956 to 1976. The magazine contained articles on style, music, society, politics, women, and contained seminude pictures of women. In March 1957 ''The Dude'' published work by William Faulkner. The Dude cost 50 cents. In Vol 6, No 4 of March 1962 featured a "New Fiction" by Nelson Algren an American author who lived in Chicago in the 1950s. The article was titled "God Bless the Lonesome Gas Man...For He Protects Us All", categorized as humor. The article is about the infamous People's Gas company and the industrialization of Chicago. It alludes to a bar, which Algren calls "The Poor Loser's Corner", in reality, it is a Ukrainian Village local dive bar, Rainbo Club. This historical Chicago bar is located on the corner of Division and Damen, where the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
