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Fredric Brown (October 29th 1906 Cincinnati, Ohio - March 11th 1972 Tucson, Arizona) is an American writer of Science-fiction famous for its news with the humorous perfume. It also published novels and police or burlesques news like Martiens, Go Home!
Biography
It starts to work at the 16 years age, exerting various trades, after having lost his mother and her father, respectively one and two years earlier.Brown was published all her life in “pulps” , these magazines popular and good market which gather police stories or science fiction. Its first fiction, The Moon for has Nickel was published in the review Detective Story in March 1938. In the Years 1960, it was published in Playboy and other magazines for men, where its very short and often funny stories with an unexpected fall made wonder.
Humor was present in its novels. What Mad Universe writes in 1949 plays with the Cliché S of the kind, telling the history of an editor of magazine sent in a parallel world and taking again a childish vision of the accounts published in the review. In the same way, in 1954, Martians, Go Home! describes a Martian invasion seen through the eyes of an author of science fiction.
One of its short stories most popular, Arena , is at the base of an episode of the series Star Trek .
He dies in 1972, whereas, alcoholic and reached pulmonary Emphysème, he had stopped writing for nine years.
Works
News
Novels
Posthumous publications
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The Best off Fredric Brown collection of news by Robert Bloch (Nelson Doubleday, 1976)
- From Ashes Thesis: The Supplements Shorts Sf Of Fredric Brown (2001), ISBN 1-886778-18-3
then of its novels:
- Martians And Madness (2002), ISBN 1-886778-17-5
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