Welcome, all, to the FredricBrown list at onelist.com. This gives us an excellent opportunity to discuss this unique author, whom I consider among the best in...
jamesroberts@xxxxxxxx...
Dec 24, 1999 3:23 pm
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Hi, James, and thanks for the warm welcome. I'm thrilled this list is starting up, because Fredric Brown is, hands-down, the author I most admire. You...
DSwierczy@xxx.xxx
Dec 24, 1999 4:10 pm
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I am acquainted with Fredric Brown's son, Linn L. Brown, who is a retired weekly newspaper editor now living in Kansas City, and I have asked him several times...
jamesroberts@xxxxxxxx...
Dec 24, 1999 9:48 pm
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I'm very much looking forward to hearing from Linn Brown. By the way, there's an item on bid at Ebay right now--a vinyl recording of Fred Brown stories, set to...
DSwierczy@...
Dec 25, 1999 3:33 pm
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I'm very much looking forward to hearing from Linn Brown. By the way, there's an item on bid at Ebay right now--a vinyl recording of Fred Brown stories, set to...
DSwierczy@xxx.xxx
Dec 27, 1999 3:55 pm
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... I bid on that myself, even though I haven't owned a record player in 20 years! I have not come across any reference to such an effort on Brown's part, but...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@xxxxxxxx...
Dec 29, 1999 1:40 am
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I am having lunch Friday with Linn L. Brown, son of Fred, at a local watering hole/chili parlor. Are there any questions members of the group would like for me...
jamesroberts@xxxxxxxx...
Jan 6, 2000 3:31 am
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Hi, James-- That's great to hear. I do have a question or two for you, if you don't mind: 1.) Any updates on publishers bringing back some of Brown's work?...
DSwierczy@xxx.xxx
Jan 6, 2000 4:58 pm
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Earlier this week, I mentioned that I was going to have lunch with Linn L. Brown (for those new to the list, Linn Brown, a retired newspaper editor who once...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@xxxxxxxx...
Jan 8, 2000 5:10 am
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Jim-- Thanks for the excellent post. ... Just curious: Did you become a Brown fan after meeting Linn, or before? ... I know that NESFA (the New England Science...
DSwierczy@xxx.xxx
Jan 8, 2000 2:22 pm
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Today I picked up a copy of the June, 1968, edition of *Galaxy Science Fiction.* What triggered this post is the double-paged advertisement in the first few...
jamesroberts@...
Jan 22, 2000 11:23 pm
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Jim: Interesting ad. I'd never heard of it so, like you, must surmise what went on. Fred was about as apolitical a person as I've met and I don't recall him ...
LinnLBrown@...
Jan 23, 2000 12:30 am
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Aside from Fred and Mack taking opposing sides, the whole double-page ad itself sounds weird. Who paid for it/organized it, I wonder? It's like a bunch of sf...
DSwierczy@...
Jan 23, 2000 1:09 am
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... I'll scan the pages of the ad in and post them later. It really is a "Who's Who" with writers like Ellison, Goulart and Harry Harrison on the "get out"...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Jan 23, 2000 4:30 am
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Duane: I wasn't living with Fred at the time, 1968, but my recollection is that he wasn't writing much at the time, and that it was not a good period for him ...
LinnLBrown@...
Jan 23, 2000 3:31 pm
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Linn: Thanks for your response. By the way, I'm thrilled you've joined the list. I hope you won't mind all of the questions I'm sure to ask during the coming ...
DSwierczy@...
Jan 23, 2000 4:34 pm
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I have a copy of a "coffee table" book called *The Fine Art of Murder* and edited by Ed Gorman, that masterful editor Martin H. Greenberg, and a couple other,...
jamesroberts@...
Jan 25, 2000 5:21 am
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As the subject line says, I found this on the Ellison newsgoup (news:alt.fan.harlan-ellison) and thought the members of this group might be interested as well....
jamesroberts@...
Feb 17, 2000 3:17 am
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I recently received this e-mail from Dennis McMillan ( http://www.dennismcmillan.com ), who published much of Fredric Brown's work in the 1980s and 90s....
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Feb 21, 2000 12:09 am
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Jim-- That's great news. I'd love an order form, if you wouldn't mind shooting it my way. By the way, has anyone heard more about NESFA's planned Brown SF...
DSwierczy@...
Feb 21, 2000 4:35 am
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Here's is a link to the NESFA site, announcing publication mid-2000 of a collection of Fredric Brown's science fiction titles: ...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Feb 22, 2000 3:55 am
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I'm not a fan of those Top Ten lists, but I'd still like to know what your favorite Fred Brown story is, and why. I have to: "The Rustle of Wings," which I...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Feb 22, 2000 4:03 am
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Good question on one's favorite FB. Mine has to be "Come and Go Mad," and is surely my most re-read piece of his. Recollection of my first reading of it is...
linnlbrown@...
Feb 22, 2000 8:53 am
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Favorite Brown story? Boy, that's a tough one. But if I were to be held at gunpoint, I'd have to say "Don't Look Behind You," which does the near-impossible:...
DSwierczy@...
Feb 22, 2000 10:01 pm
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Oh, damn. "Don't Look Behind You." I'd overlooked that in picking my favorite. Duane has made an excellent pick. I still can't reread that without the...
linnlbrown@...
Feb 23, 2000 12:58 am
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... That's true; when I first read that story, it was in a 45- or 50-year-old Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. I sat down to read it in my rocking chair in the...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Feb 23, 2000 3:44 am
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I recently finished *The Shores of Another Sea* by Chad Oliver and was struck my the way the late Mr. Oliver was able to make first contact with alien life...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Apr 28, 2000 3:45 am
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Hi, Jim-- ... I agree. MARTIANS is funniest novel I've ever read--SF or otherwise. And yet, it's still full of the freewheeling Fredric Brown-type creativity...
DSwierczy@...
Apr 28, 2000 11:41 am
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In a message dated 4/27/00 10:45:39 PM Central Daylight Time, jamesroberts@... writes: << Also, has anyone other than me seen the video "Martians Go...
linnlbrown@...
Apr 29, 2000 2:10 pm
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... There's a story here; I gave the video and a copy of the screenplay (acquired off the virtual source of flotsam, eBay) to Linn. It really is dreadful. -- ...
