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Science Fiction
Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A?hard-drinking reporter, a schizophrenic stripper, a disgraced psychoanalyst, and a mysterious serial killer who razors his female victims to death, collide with deadly and shocking reverberations in Fredric Brown's... See More
World Literature
A groundbreaking science fiction novelette from the early days of Galaxy magazine -- plus a new foreword by Paul Di Filippo. Appearing in the second issue of Galaxy dated November 1950, Honeymoon in Hell showcased the... See More
Poetry & Drama
In the aftermath of 9/11, the potential terror of weapons of mass destruction--from nuclear, biological, and chemical to dirty bombs--preoccupies national security experts. In Chemical Warfare, Frederic J. Brown, presents a... See More
Science Fiction
Fredric Brown (1906-1972) is perhaps best remembered for his use of humor and his mastery of the "short-short" form (these days called flash fiction) -- stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices... See More
Fantasy
Fredric Brown (1906-1972), one of science fiction's greatest masters from the Golden Age, is famous for his many classic short stories -- quite a few of which are presented here, including "Arena," "Knock," "Earthmen Bearing... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre's literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter -- here are five of their finest works This is the first of two... See More
Science Fiction
Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short): UNKNOWN THINGS, by Reginald Bretnor CAPTIVES... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Maybe a woman's place was in the home in 1949 -- but then again, maybe it wasn't for a woman sheriff! A classic mystery by Fredric Brown, ripped from the pages of the Summer, 1949 issue of Mystery Book Magazine. See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"Ingenious... Plunges the reader into a desperate, working-class America now better known through William Lindsay Gresham's precisely contemporary novel Nightmare Alley and such film-noir classics as Out of the Past and The... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Mystery icon and original Dutton Guilt Edged Mysteries author Fredric Brown's inventive and shocking novel We All Killed Grandma, first published in 1952, is available as an eBook for the first time! In We All Killed... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Vice and murder prowl Chicago--and one man hunts a killer through the glittering Gold Coast and seamy back alleys! Edgar Award Winner for Best First Novel (1948). See More
Science Fiction
One of the great pulp writers, Fredric Brown (1906-1972) combined a flair for the horrific, a quirky sense of humor, and a wild imagination, and published many classic novels in the mystery and science fiction genres. But he... See More
Fantasy
"Brown really is the best mid-century science fiction writer you don't know you've read." io9 All Doc Stoeger wants is a good piece of news from the citizens of Carmel City to print in his small-town paper Clarion. What he... See More
Short Stories
Nine startling adventures of humans and other beings, by the first master of science fiction and fantasy, Fredric Brown. "Brown really is the best mid-century science fiction writer you don't know you've read." io9 THE... See More
Action & Adventure
He had no name, no language, no friends. He had not been born and he could not multiply. He had just 'Happened' - an accidental combination of atoms that could think and learn and do a lot of incredible things. He had... See More
Science Fiction
Starduster Yes, I'm Max Andrews. I'm one of the guys who fought and bled and worked to get to Mars. I figure what I gave up in those early years gave me the right to pilot the next big jump. I've lied and stolen for that... See More
Science Fiction
THEY WERE GREEN, THEY WERE LITTLE, THEY WERE BALD AS BILLIARD BALLS AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! Luke Devereaux was a science fiction writer, holed up in a desert shack waiting for inspiration. He was the first to see a... See More
Science Fiction
BUG-EYED MONSTERS ON BROADWAY Pulp SF magazine editor Keith Winton was answering a letter from a teenage fan when the first moon rocket fell back to Earth and blew him away. But where to? Greenville, New York, looked the... See More
Science Fiction
"HE" was really an "IT" He was incapable of love or mercy, or hate. And he certainly never felt the lack. He was almost pure thought. He was just doing what he had to do - looking for the right body to play host to him... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Howard Perry has become a drunk -- a skid row bum. It wasn't always so and he has hopes of returning to be a respected university student. But now he spends his days washing dishes to buy enough booze to hopefully blackout... See More
Classics
A world had collapsed around this man -- a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was... See More
Science Fiction
This book contains sixty-eight stories from the entire series (volumes 1-7) classic Martian stories that were published previously by AfterMath. Among the fifty-seven authors represented in this inexpensive volume (seven... See More
Science FictionThis volume, reformatted to meet current ebook standards such as having an active table of contents, contains the following twenty classic short stories with a primary Mars theme: 1. Plague Ship, by Andre Norton 2. arm of... See More
In 1958, Dutton published Fredric Brown's The Office, a loosely autobiographical novel and the author's only work of "straight" fiction. A pet project of over ten years, it's Brown's most personal novel, and certainly one of... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
MADBALLIt starts with a bank robbery. That's where the $42,000 comes from. Then the two carnies who pull it off get in a car accident, and one of them is killed. The other guy, Mack Irby, waits it out in his hospital room... See More
Science Fiction
Robinson Crusoe... Gulliver... Paul Bunyan; the story of their adventures is nothing compared to the Saga of Mitkey the Mouse! See More
Science Fiction
Hank was spinning quite a space lie -- something about earrings wearing their owners. The crew got a boot out of the yarn -- until they got to thinking. See More
Science Fiction
Robinson Crusoe... Gulliver... Paul Bunyan; the story of their adventures is nothing compared to the Saga of Mitkey. Fredric Brown was a science fiction and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and mastery of the... See More
Action & Adventure
Crag was a no good drunk and deviant, now facing life in prison. But the good judge Jon Olliver offers him his freedom -- plus a million credits! -- in exchange for a small favor: steal a harmless tool from a rich scientist... See More