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. -- ...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Apr 29, 2000 10:47 pm
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... It's been a long time since I've seen *The Hidden* -- do the "hosts" have to die before a transference occurs? ... I've seen Tenn but haven't yet read him;...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Apr 29, 2000 10:53 pm
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... Yes. The alien hosts rides the body until it is no longer viable--in other words, shot up to holy hell--at which point the dying body finds a new host, and...
Bleed272@...
Apr 30, 2000 1:18 am
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... Not exactly, but close. The Mind Thing, in my opinion, was a bit of a nod to Invasion of the Body Snatchers and may have had some political overtones....
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Apr 30, 2000 2:54 am
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One of our members, Linn L. Brown, tumbled across this story which is as ironic and as twisting as any Fred Brown could have written. It follows. At the 1994...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
May 7, 2000 2:34 pm
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Wow. That is one helluva of a Brown-esque story. Thanks for sharing it. On another note, I belong to another mailing list that discusses fiction magazines, and...
DSwierczy@...
May 7, 2000 10:10 pm
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Search me. Do tell. I'd be more than fascinated. Linn Brown...
linnlbrown@...
May 7, 2000 11:26 pm
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... Jessica Amanda Salmonson, a regional writer from Seattle, has published a book titled *John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarrelling Through my Head*,...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
May 7, 2000 11:29 pm
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... Ugh. Sounds dreadful. I'll try to track down the Barthelme short--I think I have a collection or two of his around here somewhere. What I heard was that it...
DSwierczy@...
May 8, 2000 12:14 am
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... I'll defer to Linn as the ultimate authority on this, but offer my observations. First, we have to remember that Fred Brown's work appeared in pulp ...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
May 8, 2000 12:40 am
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In a message dated 5/7/00 7:15:16 PM Central Daylight Time, DSwierczy@... writes: << How well known was Brown in his prime? I mean, was he as well known as...
linnlbrown@...
May 8, 2000 4:50 pm
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Thanks, James and Linn, for your comments on Fred's popularity. Hope it wasn't too dumb a question--I only ask because I wasn't around for Fred's prime. (I was...
DSwierczy@...
May 9, 2000 12:31 am
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I picked up my copy of Psycho by Robert Bloch and found that it was dedicated to an agent, Harry Artshuler (sp?). Is this Fred Brown's long-time agent? I know...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
May 21, 2000 6:16 am
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Jim: Yeah, Harry Altshuler was Fred's almost-always agent, and to boot the guy who took care of Fred's widow, Beth, in her failing years. I don't know how the ...
linnlbrown@...
May 21, 2000 4:06 pm
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... -- jim roberts Freedom lies in being bold! http://home.earthlink.net/~jamesroberts mailto:jamesroberts@......
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
May 22, 2000 3:35 am
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... Sorry about the earlier mis-fired e-mail. That's a nice story; the fact that he took care of Fred's widow in the twilight of his own years says a lot about...
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
May 22, 2000 3:51 am
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I recently acquired two titles in my Fredric Brown collection. The first is the Dennis McMillan-published edition of Brother Monster, Brown's unfinished novel....
Jim Roberts
jamesroberts@...
Jun 7, 2000 3:55 am
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I stumbled across the following entry at a web page which promotes old time radio. Listed are the 100 top radio events of the past century. Among them the...
