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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Jim Roberts
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Aug 23, 2000 2:37 am
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Re Yehudi. I have it in my eight-year-old's mind that there was a then-popular poem, a ditty, which identified Yehudi as "a little man who wasn't there." I...
linnlbrown@...
Aug 23, 2000 3:12 pm
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... I think that's right? And then there's something like "He wasn't there again today; I do wish that guy'd stay away" or something like that. Now I'll have...
Jim Roberts
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Aug 24, 2000 3:07 am
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About a year or two ago, I bought and read Seabrook's book "Martians and Misplaced Clues" which detailed the life of Fredric Brown. I seem to recall (I loaned...
Jim Roberts
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Sep 6, 2000 2:39 am
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Hi, Jim-- I still have my copy of MARTIANS fortunately, and there was only one reference: to a story called "Trouble Valley" which appeared in WESTERN SHORT ...
DSwierczy@...
Sep 6, 2000 11:26 am
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In a message dated 9/5/00 9:42:41 PM Central Daylight Time, jamesroberts@... writes: << Did Fred write some westerns? >> Hell, not that I know of....
linnlbrown@...
Sep 6, 2000 7:06 pm
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Hi everyone, My name is Emmanuel Jackson, I'm 30, French, and I admit it, a Fred Brown fan. I've started reading his stories with "Martians go home !" My...
emmanuel jackson
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Oct 11, 2000 10:32 pm
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Hi, Emmanuel-- Off hand, I know I can help you with two of those stories. "Obit for Obie" was recently reprinted in a U.S. collection, PURE PULP, edited by Ed...
Bleed272@...
Oct 12, 2000 3:36 am
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... I think a lot of what we see in Fred's work is the willingness to adapt to the marketplace. When mystery pulps were booming, he wrote mysteries. When...
Jim Roberts
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Oct 12, 2000 4:57 am
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Hot diggity dog! A Frederic Brown list!!!! I can hardly believe it. I was bragging to Bruce Clayton (an author of survivalist literature in the 80's) that...
Chuck Harvey
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Oct 24, 2000 6:02 am
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... Hi Chuck and welcome to the group. Dennis McMillan in the mid-1980s and early 1990s took it upon himself to publish a lot of the previously unreprinted...
Jim Roberts
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Oct 24, 2000 11:43 am
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I just found out about this list, so I thought I'd join. To answer some questions asked earlier: _From These Ashes_ is the NESFA Press collection of all of...
Ben Yalow
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Jan 15, 2001 4:33 pm
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Great! Thanks for the update! Can you tell us when NESFA will be taking orders for this title, and how much the book will be? Thanks again! -- jim roberts ...
James Roberts
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Jan 15, 2001 5:43 pm
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Great! Thanks for the update! Can you tell us when NESFA will be taking orders for this title, and how much the book will be? Thanks again! -- jim roberts ...
James Roberts
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Jan 15, 2001 5:47 pm
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... We generally don't take order for books until we have them in hand -- that way, we don't hold people's money without being able to ship books. Right now,...
Ben Yalow
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Jan 15, 2001 9:02 pm
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At 11:29 15.01.2001 -0500, Ben Yalow wrote: snip ... Will this second volume include the unfinished "Brother monster" book? (I tried counting the S.F. novels I...
Ole J. Rogeberg
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Jan 17, 2001 11:41 am
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... _The Lights in the Sky Are Stars_ is the fifth one. ... Agreed. It's not right for NESFA Press -- we do SF publishing -- but somebody should do it. The...
