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Between 1956 and 1992, under the name Grendel Briarton (an anagram of his real name), Reginald Bretnor wrote 122 very short sci-fi stories about Ferdinand Feghoot, a time-traveling, galaxy-hopping emissary from the Society for the Aesthetic Rearrange...
Mr. Coastguard, this is what has happened to Pietro Pugliese, who is captain of the fishing boat Il Trovatore, of Monterey. Me, Joe Tonelli, I am his engineer. I know.It is because of Mrs. Pigafetta, from Taranto. It is her fault. Also the porpoises....
A World War I spy-vs-counterspy tale, of the genteel, old-school variety....
Welcome to the first volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s "Thrillogy" series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. This time we focus on the work of Reginald Bretnor (1911-1992). Included are: PAPER TIGER THE MURDERERS' CIRCLE THE PHOT...
Essays by John W. Campbell, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Don Fabun, Fletcher Pratt, Rosalie Moore, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Wylie, Gerald Heard, and Reginald Bretnor. The original 1953 edition was the first serious discussi...
ECHO THROUGH THE LAND... From the gray gunsmoke mists of a far-off alien realm to a violent valley of sinister shadows and frightfully bloody death, from an evil planet haunted by generals of the past and the soldiers who served them to a brutal t...
Papa Schimmelhorn, a lecherous, elderly cuckoo-clock assembler who has solved great problems of time and space, joins forces with incidiously vile alchemist Gaspar Gansfleisch and the luscious Priestess Philippa Theophrasta Bombast von Hohenheim to c...
From the fearless fighting men of inter-galactic space to the Spartan few who held the pass at Thermopylae. From the hardy starship troopers of futuristic mercenary frays to those last Roman centurions, holding back the barbaric hordes. From those ce...
She was a living doll who got all wound up -- in murder! An offbeat novel about some very strange happenings, by an acclaimed mystery and science fiction author (and the creator of Ferdinand Feghoot)....
If not for two items, this would be a funny story -- the Atomic Age brought back the 1925 vogue, and inhibition is not shatter-proof....