Fredric Brown

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born

October 29, 1906 in Cincinnati, Ohio, The United States

died

March 11, 1972

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers

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Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.

Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work....more

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Books by Fredric Brown

Average rating: 4.02 · 3,514 ratings · 320 reviews · 153 distinct works

	Martians, Go Home 3.72 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1955 — 15 editions	My rating:
	What Mad Universe 3.98 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1948 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Nightmares And Geezenstacks 4.28 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1961 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Fabulous Clipjoint 3.94 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1947 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Best Of Fredric Brown 4.35 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Night of the Jabberwock 4.16 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1950 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Screaming Mimi 4.07 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1949 — 13 editions	My rating:
	From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown, Ben Yalow (Editor) 4.54 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Here Comes a Candle by Fredric Brown, Bill Pronzini (Introduction) 3.75 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1950 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Far Cry 4.05 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1951 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Series by Fredric Brown

Ed & Am Hunter (7 books)
by Fredric Brown

3.91 avg rating — 190 ratings

Quotes by Fredric Brown

“There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long:
'The last man on Earth sat along in a room. There was a knock at the door…'
Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots. The horror, of course, isn't in the story at all; it's in the ellipsis, the implication: what knocked at the door. Faced with the unknown, the human mind supplies something vaguely horrible.”
― Fredric Brown, Space On My Hands

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“THERE IS A LOVELY LITTLE horror story about the peasant who started through the haunted wood—the wood that was, people said, inhabited by devils who took any mortal who came their way. But the peasant thought, as he walked slowly along:

I am a good man and have done no wrong. If devils can harm me, then there isn't any justice.

A voice behind him said, “There isn't.”
― Fredric Brown

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“The funeral was beautiful.
I didn't mind it, really. It wasn't exactly Pop's funeral, to me. When I'd been alone with him, there in the little room, well, that was it, as far as I was concerned. I'd said good-bye to him, sort of, then.
This was just something you had to go through with, on account of other people and out of respect for Pop.”
― Fredric Brown, The Fabulous Clipjoint

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