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" [Ed & Am are] an engaging pair of detectives… [Fredric Brown is] a real pro— a natural storyteller." — New York TimesBefore getting his ticket punched while crossing the street, Jason Rogers may have swiped $46,000 from the town where he was treasurer. In fact, there isn' t a shred of evidence that doesn' t point to him — only his surviving daughter believes in his innocence. Then again, she might have 46,000 good reasons to. When Hunter & Hunter get the...

On a cramped asteroid-mining ship, the men kill long shifts by swapping wild stories, until Hank begins one about a first landing on Ganymede that turns from frontier adventure into nightmare. The crew had gone expecting a strange but manageable moon, with breathable air, low gravity, and bizarre animal life; instead, they found a civilized native tribe whose gold earrings seemed to carry an almost ceremonial importance. Hank's account follows a small scientific expedition led by the sharp...

"Chills, terror, and volcanic climax." — Chicago Tribune"Exciting…amorous…mystifying." — Hartford CourantIt's Ed Hunter's first case with Chicago's Starlock Agency, after he and Am left the carney life behind—investigating a rural inventor who claims his new receiver is picking up signals from outer space. On his way to interview the subject, Ed is startled by an inhuman growl before stumb...

"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...

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...

" [Fredric Brown is] my favorite writer of all time." — Mickey Spillane" [Ed & Am are] an engaging pair of detectives . . . [Brown is] a real pro— a natural storyteller." — New York TimesEd Hunter and his Uncle Am have left Chicago and hit the road, traveling with the carnival through podunk Midwestern towns— drinking, gambling, and fleecing the local rubes. Nineteen-year-old Ed is no closer to figuring out what he' s running from ...

On a barren frontier world where survival depends on science, a generation of children is raised to become something new: Martians. Carefully adapted from birth to breathe thinner air, endure brutal cold, and thrive under alien skies, they are the perfect colonists for humanity's last great hope. But Fredric Brown's sharp, unsettling tale is not merely about conquering Mars. It is about what happens when a grand experiment in human adaptation collides with pride, resentment, and the darkes...

A moody collection of classic sci-fi tales from three masters of the genre. Vintage Science Fiction Stories Vol. 8 brings together inventive, unsettling, and thought-provoking stories by Philip K. Dick, Fredric Brown, and Robert Sheckley in one atmospheric volume.

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...

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 ...

"HE" was really an "IT"He was incapable of love or mercy, or hate. And he certainly never felt the lack. He was almost pure thought.He was just doing what he had to do - looking for the right body to play host to him. Once he found it and moved in, he would execute one of the most incredible plans ever conceived. He would be hailed as a hero on his own planet and...EARTH WOULD NEVER KNOW WHAT HIT IT!

In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter—here are five of their finest worksThis is the first of two volumes gathering the best American crime fiction of the 1960s, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, transformative decade.In The Murderers (1961) by Fred...