Fredric Brown’s The Far Cry was published in 1951. A man is digging up evidence on a Lonely Hearts murder eight years earlier. A psychological crime novel, but focusing on the psychology of the amateur detective rather than the killer. Not bad.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/12/fredric-browns-far-cry.html

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Gioco di specchi (Hall of Mirrors), 1953

Per sfilarsi dai precedenti, F.Brown ci regala un "viaggio nel tempo(?)" da un punto di vista totalmente diverso.
Il finale è inaspettato & sorprendente, senza i classici paradossi; ma pone un problema etico.
Non si trova "da solo" in italiano, solo in raccolte; lascio la versione inglese:

https://reader.bookfusion.com/books/69858-hall-of-mirrors
https://silently-aloud.blogspot.com/2019/09/gli-imperdibili-cosmolinea-b-2-di.html

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La ricerca (Search), 1954

Concludiamo per il momento l'excursus su Brown dando una sbirciatina al piano superiore rispetto al racconto precedente (Millennio).
Anche in questo caso ritorna la capacità di chi bazzica nella #Fantascienza in merito a precorrere i tempi, infatti il sotteso della storia è un concetto esplicitato dalla Chiesa Cattolica solo in tempi recenti.

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Millennio (Millennium), 1955

Come dicevo prima, Brown condivide con Asimov almeno un'altra caratteristica: racconti non proprio di #Fantascienza, comunque con lo stile inconfondibile dell'autore.
Sul tema "presunte potenze infernali", per le quali Asimov ci ha dato Azazel, ecco una storia che rappresenta anche una riflessione di teologia cristiana.
Qui sotto il collegamento per approfondire Azazel

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel_(antologia)

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La risposta (The Answer), 1954

F.Brown ha scritto numerosi racconti brevi di #Fantascienza; è famoso sopratutto per "Sentinella", testo spesso inserito nelle letture scolastiche, da non confondere con "La sentinella" di A.C.Clarke, "seme" della saga "2001".

Qui vediamo una tesi apocalittica sulle I.A., prima che esistessero

https://www.poesieracconti.it/racconti/a/fredric-brown/la-risposta

December, 1950. Edited by Damon Knight.
Paul Calle

#PaulCalle #DamonKnight #MackReynolds #FredricBrown #GrahamGreene #PhilipWylie #JackVance #CMKornbluth #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @fantasy

For the two people here on Mastodon who may be familiar with Fredric Brown: Do yourself a favour and check out Lawrence Block's latest novel, THE BURGLAR WHO MET FREDRIC BROWN, which is a wonderful homage to Brown and cleverly inspired by WHAT MAD UNIVERSE. (And saying much more would just ruin the fun.)

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), Dario Argento's debut feature. Not much gore but incredibly stylish.

The opening sequence may be the best in the history of cinema.

Based on Fredric Brown’s novel The Screaming Mimi, and the twists at the end are delightfully devious.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-bird-with-crystal-plumage-1970.html

Lawrence Block recently published his latest novel THE BURGLAR WHO MET FREDRIC BROWN and here is an article in which Block writes about his love for Brown's crime fiction.

It's nuggets like this that on occasion makes me realise that I am not alone.

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https://crimereads.com/lawrence-block-discovering-the-novels-of-fredric-brown/

Fredric Brown: Nightmare in Yellow

Great example of super short crime fiction by one of the masters of that kind of style.

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http://www.rinablijdorp.nl/texts/literatuurproject/Nightmare%20in%20Yellow.pdf

I love old style paperbacks and yes I have bought (and judged!) books by their cover.

One of my favourite authors is Cornell Woolrich, probably one of the most enigmatic classic crime authors. With a series of books all carrying "black" in its title, he literally defined Noir.

Also love the crime fiction of Fredric Brown who is nowadays mainly known for his Science Fiction (that I like but not obsess about that much).