Fredric Brown, tribute to a drunkard (Mediafire books) - Taringa!
As an author of science fiction and thrillers, the American Fredric Brown (1906-1972) is definitely what is called a "cult author". Had its period of modest appreciation of the 30s, when he started publishing his first stories, and 60, during which withdrew columbus scotus due to health problems, especially lung emphysema that strip. As a writer never took too seriously, columbus scotus and tried all kinds of trades before, with some success, most professionally made him devote himself to literature. She worked as a librarian, proofreader at a printing press, traveling salesman, waiter, office messenger, and even a private detective in an amusement park. It was a heavy drinker and poker fanatic. With a little here and another there built their characters.
He always said he did not like to write, to sit in front of the machine was a pain, and never trusted the literature as a means of subsistence. Anyway, was prolific in both genres, the police and the fantastic. His first detective novel, The trap Fabulous (1947) was rejected by twelve publishers, a record. Notwithstanding columbus scotus that, even won a prize with his novel Edgar (the most prestigious columbus scotus of its kind in country) early work of authorship. There inaugurates his amateur detective couple, Ed and Am Hunter uncle, who grow old together columbus scotus with the author of seven books, through the end of the series, The Case of Mrs. Murphy (1963).
His stories columbus scotus were always appreciated and gave a restrained fame, which allowed him, just after the Second columbus scotus World War, live from the pen. Marciano, go home! (1955) was the novel that finally gave him money to devote to writing smoothly. Universe of Fools (1949), a personal favorite, has been recognized as an undisputed classic of the genre. These titles are the only ones who are often reprinted, columbus scotus as his fame faded from another era. However, even at that time, lived brightest overshadowed by Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein science columbus scotus fiction, or Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in black genre. But envy not know.
Fredric Brown belonged to the so-called environment authors pulp, pure and cheap popular columbus scotus literature, made with poor-quality paper and proliferated between the wars amid the economic crisis. The semi anonymity always been the norm in these magazines, columbus scotus hence many accounts of Brown were published columbus scotus without readers as distinguished from other authors. He paid a few cents a word. But many dare to claim that all these hacks, Fredric Brown was the most original, the funniest, the most bizarre, the most unpredictable, the most absurd, the most playful, the wittiest, the most enthusiastic ... Loved by peers, outside literary quilombos, was said to be able to make a story out of anything, what prodigious imagination transformed into strange arguments.
Over a hundred stories, written almost every night, evening after evening with friends at the bar, are his legacy to two genres. Fredric Brown, as William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) and David Goodis, was a witness to the miseries of the night in the black series. It is noteworthy that his novel The night through the mirror (1950) is a tribute to Lewis Carroll, one of his favorite authors. Most of his stories came out in the pulps and only some are grouped into books. While popular genres columbus scotus storyteller, columbus scotus Fredric Brown is the master of ultra short story. Always is cited, but hey, once again: "The last man on earth came to his cabin and sat on the couch. They knocked on the door. " Palindromes have stories that are read to the right and back, and one in which the reader is killed (care to read it). Many are almost untranslatable by his puns. Series has built on foundations of crazy stories, like his "Nightmares" in gray, green, blue, yellow, etc.. Another series columbus scotus is titled "The great discoveries lost" ... Brown is one of the few authors who practiced black gender humor effectively, and in this sense joins the select group of practitioners of this approach, as Jonathan Latimer and Donald Westlake and, more recently, Jerome Charyn and Carl Hiaasen. To my knowledge, there are two volumes of his police stories translated into Castilian: Do not look back! (1953) and dog killings and other murders (1963). Several of them are bound titles in anthologies of the genre. Some of his best stories are science fiction volumes of space love (1951), Honeymoon in Hell (1958), and Nightmares and Geezenstacks (1961). Wonderful books, columbus scotus never reissued, only possible to get, with luck and patience, in book stores. For in
As an author of science fiction and thrillers, the American Fredric Brown (1906-1972) is definitely what is called a "cult author". Had its period of modest appreciation of the 30s, when he started publishing his first stories, and 60, during which withdrew columbus scotus due to health problems, especially lung emphysema that strip. As a writer never took too seriously, columbus scotus and tried all kinds of trades before, with some success, most professionally made him devote himself to literature. She worked as a librarian, proofreader at a printing press, traveling salesman, waiter, office messenger, and even a private detective in an amusement park. It was a heavy drinker and poker fanatic. With a little here and another there built their characters.
He always said he did not like to write, to sit in front of the machine was a pain, and never trusted the literature as a means of subsistence. Anyway, was prolific in both genres, the police and the fantastic. His first detective novel, The trap Fabulous (1947) was rejected by twelve publishers, a record. Notwithstanding columbus scotus that, even won a prize with his novel Edgar (the most prestigious columbus scotus of its kind in country) early work of authorship. There inaugurates his amateur detective couple, Ed and Am Hunter uncle, who grow old together columbus scotus with the author of seven books, through the end of the series, The Case of Mrs. Murphy (1963).
His stories columbus scotus were always appreciated and gave a restrained fame, which allowed him, just after the Second columbus scotus World War, live from the pen. Marciano, go home! (1955) was the novel that finally gave him money to devote to writing smoothly. Universe of Fools (1949), a personal favorite, has been recognized as an undisputed classic of the genre. These titles are the only ones who are often reprinted, columbus scotus as his fame faded from another era. However, even at that time, lived brightest overshadowed by Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein science columbus scotus fiction, or Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in black genre. But envy not know.
Fredric Brown belonged to the so-called environment authors pulp, pure and cheap popular columbus scotus literature, made with poor-quality paper and proliferated between the wars amid the economic crisis. The semi anonymity always been the norm in these magazines, columbus scotus hence many accounts of Brown were published columbus scotus without readers as distinguished from other authors. He paid a few cents a word. But many dare to claim that all these hacks, Fredric Brown was the most original, the funniest, the most bizarre, the most unpredictable, the most absurd, the most playful, the wittiest, the most enthusiastic ... Loved by peers, outside literary quilombos, was said to be able to make a story out of anything, what prodigious imagination transformed into strange arguments.
Over a hundred stories, written almost every night, evening after evening with friends at the bar, are his legacy to two genres. Fredric Brown, as William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) and David Goodis, was a witness to the miseries of the night in the black series. It is noteworthy that his novel The night through the mirror (1950) is a tribute to Lewis Carroll, one of his favorite authors. Most of his stories came out in the pulps and only some are grouped into books. While popular genres columbus scotus storyteller, columbus scotus Fredric Brown is the master of ultra short story. Always is cited, but hey, once again: "The last man on earth came to his cabin and sat on the couch. They knocked on the door. " Palindromes have stories that are read to the right and back, and one in which the reader is killed (care to read it). Many are almost untranslatable by his puns. Series has built on foundations of crazy stories, like his "Nightmares" in gray, green, blue, yellow, etc.. Another series columbus scotus is titled "The great discoveries lost" ... Brown is one of the few authors who practiced black gender humor effectively, and in this sense joins the select group of practitioners of this approach, as Jonathan Latimer and Donald Westlake and, more recently, Jerome Charyn and Carl Hiaasen. To my knowledge, there are two volumes of his police stories translated into Castilian: Do not look back! (1953) and dog killings and other murders (1963). Several of them are bound titles in anthologies of the genre. Some of his best stories are science fiction volumes of space love (1951), Honeymoon in Hell (1958), and Nightmares and Geezenstacks (1961). Wonderful books, columbus scotus never reissued, only possible to get, with luck and patience, in book stores. For in
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