fredric brown

Fredric Brown born Cincinnati, Ohio: 29 October 1906 died Tucson, Arizona: 11 March 1972 Fredric Brown was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, detective, mystery and horror, and of non-fiction, and a former proof-reader He is known for his use of humour, his postmodern outlook...

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, my name is Gerard Rorik, in south of the Netherlands, retired sailor. I am in search for a scifi pocket book and lost the author and title, but have some clues I hope: A man (Crene?) travels space with his girl, and by coincidence landed on a kind of astroid, that...

Short story or short novelette. Fifties or Sixties. Alien in First Contact is hideous...like a flayed man. With a human and a donkey. It turns out the alien is a "puppet" (even named after some puppet) and that it was made to look so bad to see if humans would react xenophobically to such a...

Hi, hoping anyone can help. About 25 years ago I borrowed a sci-fi short story collection off of my grandfather and re-read it every year for about 10 years till I moved/lost it. I am trying to find the name/author of the last story in in it.? It was only a single page and 2 paragraphs long and...

I am trying to find a short story. Its about a guy who begins to have inexplicable accidents. He gets a sunburn on a rainy day at one point. He figures out that what ever celestial printer is typing his life, is malfunctioning. The 'e' is skipping. So then he must try to get to Heaven...

Memory lapse. I read this maybe thirty years ago but it was older than that. Little green men come to Earth and are proper sneering know it alls. They go around telling tales about Terrans having affairs and cheating on income tax etc until people get really irked with them. Can't remember any...

In the early 1950's I saved my allowance for three weeks to buy a 25 cent Sci Fi magazine at the newsstand (instead of buying a 10 cent comic book every week) because I liked what I read every week standing at the rack. That magazine contained a story about an astronaut stranded on an...

I just recently purchased a couple of Fredric Brown's short story collections, Honeymoon in Hell and Space on my Hands, for a couple of bucks each. I have never read him before but they look like they may be in the same vein as Lovecraft or Bradbury and the covers were irresistible so I had to...

Basic plot story 1 - guy crash lands on alien planet. Planet is red with magenta animals, orange plants, etc. Guy really misses color green. Only green he sees is ray from ray gun. Guy has imaginary friend that sits on his shoulder and spends his days looking for earlier crash landing site...

I've been looking for this particular book for years... And I've never ACTUALLY read it. I've only ever read a blurb for it (at the end of a book I no longer have), which read something similar to "The year is 3234 AD. Mankind has achieved unity, peace and interstellar travel, mastered biology...

Hi guys! I’m writing because I’m looking for small help. I’m trying to find out short science fiction story “Man of Distinction” wrote by Fredric Brown. I know it only from Polish translation. I need English version because I made a short movie based on this story but I don’t have original to...

I remember a SF book from about 45 years ago--it certainly wasn't a classic, but it was 'cute' and I'd like to see if it's still available. I think its title was "Rogue Planet", but I haven't been able to find a match for this book. It was about an intelligent planet that migrated into the...

A few years, two or three back, in High school I took a science fiction class. In it we covered a story that I didnt get to read much of the first time around. I don't remember tons of details but I liked the story and cannot remember the author or title of it. The story went something like...

It's the story I once read when I was a child and I vaugely remembered it. However, I still remember the impression it had on me and want to read it again. It's about a guy who was put into a confined space with a small living organism. As it turned out, that thing was an alien and the guy had...