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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.

Once upon a time, in a lonely house near Taos, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered No one knew where she had come from, or why she had died, or what had become of her killer ight years later a troubled man named George Weaver moved into the same house and discovered that nothing is more treacherously seductive than an unsolved murder Unless it's a beautiful and enigmatic victim.

He Far Cry is at once a seamlessly constructed novel of detection and a harrowing portrayal of psychic meltdown by a legendary practitioner of the art of suspense olan, a color cover, and six black & white interiors by Joe Servello, and is signed by Nolan and Servello Cloth with printed front panels, clear Mylar dustjacket, and ribbon marker.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Joe Servello and William F. Nolan.
• Introduction by William F. Nolan.
• Includes two bonus short stories.
• Cover and interior black and white artwork by Joe Servello.
• Ribbon marker, clear Mylar dustjacket, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• The Far Cry. Centipede Press page for The Far Cry
• Fredric Brown (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Fredric Brown