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From These Ashes
From These Ashes
From These Ashes
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From These Ashes contains the complete short fantasy and science fiction of Fredric Brown except for two stories, "Gateway to Darkness," and "Gateway to Glory" which were rewritten to be parts of Rogue in Space. They are published, along with Rogue in Space, in the second Fredric Brown volume (novels) Martians and Madness.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg
A Word from Our Sponsor
Abominable
Aelurophobe
All Good BEMs
And the Gods Laughed
The Angelic Angleworm
Answer
Arena
Armageddon
Bear Possibility
Blood
Bright Beard
Cartoonist
Cat Burglar
Come and Go Mad
Contact
Crisis, 1999
Daisies
Dark Interlude
Daymare
Dead Letter
Death on the Mountain
The Dome
Double Standard
Double Whammy aka "Naturally" and "Voodoo"
Earthmen Bearing Gifts aka "Contact"
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
The End
Entity Trap
Etaoin Shrdlu
Expedition
Experiment
Fatal Error
First Time Machine
Fish Story
From These Ashes aka "Entity Trap"
The Frownzly Florgels
The Gamblers
The Geezenstacks
Granny's Birthday
Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility
Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability
Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality
Hall of Mirrors
Happy Ending
The Hat Trick
The Hatchetman
Hobbyist
Honeymoon in Hell
Horse Race
The House
Imagine
It Didn't Happen
Jaycee
The Joke
Keep Out
Knock
The Last Martian
The Last Train
Letter to a Phoenix
The Little Lamb
Man of Distinction
Me and Flapjack and the Martians
Millennium
Mitkey Rides Again
Mouse
Murder in Ten Easy Lessons
Nasty
Naturally
The New One
Nightmare in Blue
Nightmare in Gray
Nightmare in Green
Nightmare in Red
Nightmare in Time aka "The End"
Nightmare in White
Nightmare in Yellow
Not Yet the End
Nothing Sirius
Obedience
Paradox Lost
Pattern
Pi in the Sky
Placet Is a Crazy Place
Politeness
Power, The aka "Rebound"
Preposterous
Puppet Show
Rebound
Recessional
Reconciliation
The Ring of Hans Carvel
Rope Trick
Runaround
Rustle of Wings
Search
Second Chance
Sentence
Sentry
The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I
The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver II
The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver III
Six-Legged Svengali
Solipsist
Something Green
Star Mouse, The
Starvation aka "Runaround"
Switcheroo, The
Ten Percenter
Three Little Owls
Too Far
Two Timer aka "Experiment" and "Sentry"
Unfortunately
Vengeance Fleet
Voodoo
Waveries, The
Weapon, The
Yehudi Principle, The

LanguageEnglish
PublisherNESFA Press
Release dateJan 2, 2023
ISBN9781610373470
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