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Fletcher Pratt

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Buffalo, New York, The United States

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History, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956) was a science fiction and fantasy writer; he was also well-known as a writer on naval history and on the American Civil War.

Pratt attended Hobart College for one year. During the 1920s he worked for the Buffalo Courier-Express and on a Staten Island newspaper. In the late 1920s he began selling stories to pulp magazines. When a fire gutted his apartment in the 1930s he used the insurance money to study at the Sorbonne for a year. After that he began writing histories.

Wargamers know Pratt as the inventor of a set of rules for civilian naval wargaming before the Second World War. This was known as the "Naval War Game" and was based on a wargame developed by Fred T. Jane involving dozens of tiny wooden ships,...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 1,240 ratings · 75 reviews · 53 distinct works

	The Well of the Unicorn 3.37 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1948 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Compleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt 3.95 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Blue Star 3.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1952 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Battles that Changed History 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1956 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Invaders From Rigel 2.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1960	My rating:
	All About Famous Inventors And Their Inventions 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1955	My rating:
	The Incompleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt 3.82 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1940 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Civil War in Pictures 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1955 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Civil War 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1955	My rating:

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“The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. ("The Gift Of God").”
― Fletcher Pratt, Tales From Gavagan's Bar

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“A fine young man and a fine young felly he always was, except that in the old days, before you began coming in here, Mr. Witherwax, he maybe had too much money and spent too much of it on girls. Take them alone, either one; the money without the women, or a good girl without the money that can be a help to a young felly, and he's fixed for life. But put them together; and often as not, the young felly goes on the booze. ("The Better Mousetrap")”
― Fletcher Pratt, Tales From Gavagan's Bar

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“Need 'nether whiskey. Whiskey chaser. Gotta get two men drunk.'

Mr. Cohan placed both hands on the bar. 'Mr. Walsh,' he said severely, 'in Gavagan's we will serve a man a drink to wet his whistle, or even because his old woman has pasted him with a dornick, but a drink to get drunk with I do not sell. Now I'm telling you you've had enough for tonight, and in the morning you'll be thanking me...' ("My Brother's Keeper")”
― Fletcher Pratt, Tales From Gavagan's Bar

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