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1.From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown by: Fredric Brown February 01, 2001
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As a long time Fredric Brown fan, I never thought I'd see a complete collection of his marvellous stories. He's fantastic. Quick, witty, poignant or just fun, Fredric Brown to me is THE O'Henry of science fiction.

2.Here Comes a Candle by: Fredric Brown September 01, 2006
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As a long time Fredric Brown fan, I never thought I'd see a complete collection of his marvellous stories. He's fantastic. Quick, witty, poignant or just fun, Fredric Brown to me is THE O'Henry of science fiction.

3.The Screaming Mimi by: Fredric Brown July 22, 2008
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Blackmask is to be commended for republishing a lot of pulp era fiction which has gone public domain. The downside is that apparently they seek out a copy of the original, scan it and then OCR the images. This causes a lot of typos; in this book, for instance, the word "time" is almost always rendered as "tune", and sometimes you have to figure out that "bun" means "him". Of course these are all real words, so they are not caught by spellcheck.. That aside, this is an engaging little mystery, and perhaps the Chicagoest book I have read. Brown gives you enough clues to figure out more or less what's going on, but the real draw is the engaging character of Sweeny. One reviewer below called the book homophobic. I think that's an overstatement. A book from 1949 is not going ... Read More

4.Martians and Madness (Nesfa's Choice Series) by: Fredric Brown 2002-09
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Fredric Brown was a master of the short story, but his trademark wit and imagination often failed him when he turned to writing novels, where he did his best work in the mystery field rather than in SF. Two of the five stories here - Martians, Go Home and What Mad Universe - are considered classics. The Mind Thing is pretty decent also. But the remaining two stories are best skipped or forgotten. (And including the two shorter stories later forcibly fused together to create Rogue in Space was surely not worth the effort.) I'm giving this four stars, but it's a low four stars; really more like 3.5

5.Honeymoon in Hell by: Fredric Brown 1982
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Fredric Brown was the acknowledged master of "short-shorts" - stories that typically ran only 5-10 pages in length, sometimes only a page or two. "Honeymoon in Hell" collects 21 of these stories into a slim volume, and you'd be hard-put to come up with a better collection of imaginative, evocative, and sometimes frightening vignettes. Worth seeking out - or you can get all of Brown's short stories in one volume if you purchase the NESFA anthology "From These Ashes." (A companion volume, "Martians and Madness," anthologizes Brown's five SF novels.)

6.THE FAR CRY by: Fredric Brown July 02, 1991
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An alcoholic, middle-aged businessman takes a summer vaction in a remote part of New Mexico, on the advice of his doctor. George Weaver is recovering from a nervous breakdown brought on by overwork and the tensions of his unhappy marriage. He rents an abandoned house where a murder took place a few years earlier, and is urged by a writer friend to research the unsolved crime and write an article about it for a true crime magazine. What begins as a mild curiosity and the need to keep busy result in Weaver becoming completely obsessed with the case, and the murder victim. He becomes involved with the details of the young woman's tragic death to the point that it takes over his life completely, made worse by his increasingly heavy drinking. He is not pleased to learn that his wife is planning on joining him soon, and ... Read More

7.Nightmares and Geezenstacks by: Fredric Brown July 27, 1979
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This is a classic collection of clever, twisted s-f from Fredric Brown, master of the short-short story. If you like offbeat, mind-bending fiction, this is the book for you!

8.The Fabulous Clipjoint by: Fredric Brown August 01, 2004
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Ed Hunter's father, an alcoholic printer with a shrewish wife, is murdered on his way home from a late night binge. Aside from an alcoholic witch of a stepmother and an over-sexed younger stepsister (neither of whom he particularly likes) the only family Ed has left is Uncle Ambrose, an itinerant carnival worker that Ed hasn't seen in over a decade. Ed searches out his Uncle Am and together they set off on a quest to find and punish the killer. Under Uncle Am's guidance Ed learns (1) that his father wasn't the mediocrity Ed thought him to be, (2) that he, Ed, is capable of much more than he ever imagined, and (3) who killed his father. Fredric Brown was the master of the surprise ending. The ending of "Clipjoint" is all-the-more surprising because he telegraphs the identity of the killer but still manages to bring ... Read More

9.The Lenient Beast by: Fredric Brown June 01, 2005
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Fredric Brown's masterful mystery novel (which I read in one sitting) is a skillfully written tale featuring multiple first person perspectives. Fully developed characters and absoultely dead-on, realistic dialog kept me engaged throughout. Brown touches on a range of human issues such as interracial marriage, anti-semitism and alchoholism in a truthful manner and weaves this into a murder mystery laden with psychological torment, a la Jim Thompson. This is simply one of the best books I've read in a long time.

10.Star Shine (Previously Published as Angels and Spaceships) (Bantam #1423) by: Fredric Brown 1956
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The synopsis on the jacket reads, in part; "Have you heard of the linotype machine which came alive and made a slave of the printer? Or about the time the earth was surrounded by radio-type waves which cut off electricity and forced people to go back to the horse and buggy days? Or the little boy who beat the Devil with a water pistol? Or of Yehundi, a new type of genie in the bottle, who did anything and everything for his master? Or of the Celestial Compositor who didn't pay attention to his business and who made the life of one earthling very miserable indeed. Fredric Brown tells about these and many other equally intriguing events in this collection which includes both stories of fantasy and science fiction, and some stories that are a mixture of both. But into whatever category they ... Read More

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