From These Ashes

The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown

This text relates to the 2nd edition • Ebook (epub)

by Fredric Brown

This is the second edition ebook based on the third edition of the hardcover.

This second edition includes a previously uncollected story, originally published in
Amazing Magazine, entitled “Martian Through Georgia” which is reprinted here
for the first time ever.

"Arena" is nominated for the 1945 Best Novelette Retro Hugo!
"And the Gods Laughed" was nominated for the 1945 Best Short Story Retro Hugo!

"The Star Mouse" was nominated for the 1943 Best Novelette Retro Hugo!
"Etaoin Shrdlu" was nominated for the 1943 Best Short Story Retro Hugo!

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
Edited by Ben Yalow
Cover art by Bob Eggleton
Cover design by Geri Sullivan