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Cover artist
  
"Kohs"

Publication date
  
1954

Pages
  
224 pp

Author
  
Fredric Brown

Publisher
  
E. P. Dutton

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

Originally published
  
1954

Genre
  
Science Fiction

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Angels and Spaceships is a 1954 collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Fredric Brown. It was initially published in hardcover by E. P. Dutton; a later Bantam paperback edition was retitled Star Shine.

Contents

Contents

  • "Introduction" (original essay by author)
  • "Pattern" (original)
  • "Placet is a Crazy Place" (Astounding 1946)
  • "Answer" (original)
  • "Etaoin Shrdlu" (Unknown 1942)
  • "Preposterous" (original)
  • "Armageddon" Unknown 1941)
  • "Politeness" (original)
  • "The Waveries" (Astounding 1945)
  • "Reconciliation" (original)
  • "The Hat Trick" (Unknown 1943)
  • "Search" (original)
  • "Letter to a Phoenix" (Astounding 1949)
  • "Daisies" (original)
  • "The Angelic Angleworm" (Unknown 1943)
  • "Sentence" (original)
  • "The Yehudi Principle" (Astounding 1944)
  • "Solipsist" (original)

    • The original stories are generally very short vignettes.

    Reception

    Anthony Boucher found the collection "contains a little of everything, from screwball fantasy to sober science fiction" and praised Brown's "sparkling originality and delightfully crisp writing." P. Schuyler Miller found the stories to be "good fun", though not so impressive as Brown's novel-length work.

    References

    Angels and Spaceships Wikipedia
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