Fredric Brown (1906-1972), one of science fiction's greatest masters from the Golden Age, is famous for his many classic short stories -- quite a few of which are presented here, including "Arena," "Knock," "Earthmen Bearing Gifts," "The Star Mouse," and many more. The 32 tales of science fiction and fantasy assembled in this massive volume include:ARENAEXPERIMENTKEEP OUTHAPPY ENDINGHALL OF MIRRORSEARTHMEN BEARING GIFTSIMAGINEIT DIDN...

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) is perhaps best remembered for his use of humor and his mastery of the "short-short" form (these days called flash fiction) -- stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. (He also wrote excellent short stories and novels.) This volume contains 27 of his stories, including the classics "The Waveries," "Honeymoon in Hell," "Cartoonist," and many more!Included are:THE WAVERIESOBEDIENCEALL G...

From These Ashes contains the complete short fantasy and science fiction of Fredric Brown except for two stories, "Gateway to Darkness," and "Gateway to Glory" which were rewritten to be parts of Rogue in Space. They are published, along with Rogue in Space, in the second Fredric Brown volume (novels) Martians and Madness.TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction by Barry N. MalzbergA Word from Our SponsorAbominableAelurophobeAll Good BEMsAnd the Gods L...

**Discover this much-loved murder mystery classic, perfect for fans of The British Library Crime Classics!'Ingenious** . . . Plunges the reader into a desperate, working-class America*'* – Washington PostIn 1940s Chicago, a man is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a mugging gone awry.The police aren’t interested in finding Wallace’s murderer, but his teenage son, Ed, thinks there’s more to this than me...

"Ingenious . . . Plunges the reader into a desperate, working-class America now better known through William Lindsay Gresham's precisely contemporary novel Nightmare Alley and such film-noir classics as Out of the Past and The Postman Always Rings Twice." — Washington Post"[Fredric Brown is] my favorite writer of all time." —Mickey SpillaneWhen Wally Hunter is found bludgeoned to death in an alley in Chic...

Fantascienza - racconto lungo (34 pagine) - Un uomo contro un alieno: dal loro scontro dipende il destino di due civiltà.Un grande classico dal quale è stato tratto uno dei più famosi episodi di Star TrekUn uomo e un alieno, soli, su un pianeta inospitale. Sono chiamati a confrontarsi come campioni della propria specie, ma non hanno a disposizione armi, se non quelle che saranno in grado di costruisi da sé, con le poche risorse offerte dal pianeta.Fr...

Uno dei testi cult della fantascienzaKeith Winton, direttore del pulp magazine americano Storie sorprendenti (il celebre Amazing Stories), sta pensando a come sarebbe l’universo desiderato da Joe Doppelberg, accanito lettore della sua rivista...Proprio in quell’istante viene investito dalla scarica elettrica di un misterioso razzo lunare sperimentale, ritrovandosi trasportato in quel mondo. Qui viene scambiato per una spia arturiana e inizia un’epopea in cui...

Martians and Madness contains the complete science fiction and fantasy novels of Fredric Brown as well as, "Gateway to Darkness," and "Gateway to Glory" which were rewritten to be parts of Rogue in Space. It is a companion volume to From These Ashes, the complete short SF of Fredric Brown.Table of ContentsIntroduction by William TennWhat Mad UniverseMartians Go HomeRogue in SpaceThe Lights in the Sky Are StarsThe Mind Thing"Gateway t...

One of the great pulp writers, Fredric Brown (1906-1972) combined a flair for the horrific, a quirky sense of humor, and a wild imagination, and published many classic novels in the mystery and science fiction genres. But he was also a master of the “short-short story,” tales only a page or two in length, but hard-hitting and with a wicked twist at the end. Nightmares and Geezenstacks (1961) collects 47 short gems by Brown, ranging from science fiction to noir crime to horror, inc...

BUG-EYED MONSTERS ON BROADWAYPulp SF magazine editor Keith Winton was answering a letter from a teenage fan when the first moon rocket fell back to Earth and blew him away.But where to? Greenville, New York, looked the same, but Bems (Bug-Eyed Monsters) just like the ones on the cover of Startling Stories walked the streets without attracting undue comment.And when he brought out a half-dollar coin in a drugstore, the cops wanted to shoot him on sight as an Arcturia...

He had no name, no language, no friends. He had not been born and he could not multiply. He had just 'Happened' - an accidental combination of atoms that could think and learn and do a lot of incredible things. He had floated free in space for billions of years, for all he knew he was the only living thing in the Universe. So when he met three human beings wrangling and bickering in their funny-looking space ship, his whole life changed. Because he suddenly knew that he could make them do ...

Vice and murder prowl Chicago--and one man hunts a killer through the glittering Gold Coast and seamy back alleys! Edgar Award Winner for Best First Novel (1948).