Author: Fredric Brown
Narrator: Brandon Gaylor
Unabridged: 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brandon E. Gaylor
Published: 09/14/2020
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Fredric Brown
(1906–1972) was the only writer to achieve equal prominence in the mystery and
science fiction genres. His first foray into mystery, The Fabulous Clipjoint, won the Mystery
Writers of America’s Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Brown was
also the acknowledged master of the short short story; the famous collection Nightmares and Geezenstacks demonstrates his consummate mastery of a form limited to no more than five
hundred words. His short story “Arena†was the basis of a famed Star Trek episode; “Martians, Go Home!†was adapted for a 1992
film; “The Last Martian†was adapted for Serling’s Twilight Zone and starred Steve McQueen at the start of his career.
Brown’s work, more than forty years after his death, is increasingly prominent.
And the Gods Laughed by Fredric Brown, Planet Stories, Spring 1944 - short story. Read from a scanned copy on Internet Archive. This starts out as a tall tale but has a dark twist at the end. Humans make first contact with an alien race but one person begins to have suspicions about their intent. What......more
Read this because it was nominated for a retro Hugo award, so I was reading quite a few works from the same year in a short period of time. This one has not aged well in presentation of Indigenous peoples, and has some nasty colonial attitudes baked in as well. It is, however and interesting tall ta......more
I'm a big fan of Frederic Brown and have been for years. I've only found his work kin his novel Martians Go Home and in the collection of short stories Nightmares and Geezenstacks. This collection. of his works is mammoth. It includes most if not all of his short stories . It's a limited and numbere......more