About

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati. E is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form, stories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. Is classic science fiction novel What Mad Universe (1949) is a parody of pulp SF story conventions.

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. He was born in Cincinnati. He is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form, stories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings.

Fredric Brown is simply out of his mind with this novel, and once you read this completely out of hand take on greed, sex and death in the carny, you'll wonder how in the hell he can pack so much story in so little space Madball (told primarily through the eyes of Dr Magus) is a whodunit when the story opens with a carny regular being killed and the clever detective work of Magus, who has deduced that there is a whole lot of money missing someplace adball is making its first ever hardcover appearance, and to round it out, we have included two bonus short stories: Come and Go Mad, considered by many to be Brown's finest short work, and the long out of print Greatest Poem Ever Written.

Dick Adler has contributed a fine introduction imited to 300 copies, each one is signed by Dick Adler.

Edition Details

• Limited to 200 copies, each signed by Dick Adler.
• Introduction by Dick Adler.
• The original American and British paperback edition covers reprinted in color.
• Two bonus short stories, including the classic Come and Go Mad.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.
• Bound in blue cloth with no dustjacket (the image above is just a mock-up).

External Links

• Madball. Centipede Press page for Madball
• Fredric Brown (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Fredric Brown