Martians and Misplaced Clues: The Life and Work of Fredric Brown

by Jack Seabrook

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Jack Seabrook discusses The Fabulous Clipjoint in depth, as well as Martians, Go Home, The Screaming Mimi, and all of the other classic Fredric Brown novels. He provides a careful analysis of the author's short stories and poems, tracking his work from the early days, through the years of the pulp magazines and SF digests, up to and including the final years with respectable magazines. Along with the discussion of the work are details of the author's unusual life, from his early years in Cincinnati through the Depression in Milwaukee, to a bohemian life in the Southwest.
  • ISBN13 9780879725914
  • Publish Date 31 January 2006
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
  • Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,US
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 312
  • Language English