He also wrote, aside from sf (NOT sci-fi) and hb cf, not a
little horror fiction and some lighter fantasies. NIGHTMARES
AND GEEZENSTACKS collects a number of his vignettes, and some
longer stories...it's not all of his best work by any means
(some is quite minor work), but it's mildly representative of
some of his work, and it was in print forever. TM
-----Original Message----- From: Robison Michael R CNIN
[mailto:
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil]
Steve Harbin wrote: Fredric Brown is a great author, whom you
want to check out since you haven't done so. He wrote both
mystery and science fiction from the 40's through the 60's.
His main claims to fame or the excellence and humor and word
play of some of his short stories (especially the sci-fi
ones) and his shocker "O. Henry" type endings, in both his
mystery and sci-fi stories. His only series of hard boiled
detective stories are the "Ed and Am Hunter" series of novels
and a couple of short stories, which I believe were discussed
a while back a little. Check the archives. If not I'll be
happy to send you a list. Also, check out Kevin's great web
site ThrillingDetective. It has a section on Fred
Brown.
************ Thanks, Steve. I'll check out the archives and
Kevin's site and see what I can find. I'm still reading 30's
stuff and loving the heck out of it, but here in another
month or so I hope to graduate to the 40's. If there are any
of his novels that you would recommend over others, let me
know. I've had really good luck getting out-of- print stuff
from Abebooks.
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