![]() ![]() ![]() "The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver", parts 1-3 are hilarious "Great Lost Discoveries", parts 1-3 are equally hilarious his "Nightmare" series, which isn't really science-fiction, is disturbing on several levels (one for each story). He sometimes wrote series of short stories which were just amazing. Another example of this is "Vengeance Fleet". ![]() Indeed, if you had to summarize his writings in a single word, "clever" would do it. "The Yehudi Principle" is probably the cleverest. ![]() "Letter to a Phoenix" and "Hall of Mirrors" are two of the most haunting stories I've ever read. His most famous story is "Arena" which was then plundered for the Star Trek episode of the same name. Henry ending (that is, surprise endings). Of course, I only mean to compare myself to him in terms of style, not in terms of quality.įredric Brown was a master of short-stories - and by "short" I mean between one and three pages long. Fortunately they were also false, because I already know what author I write like: my favorite science-fiction author Fredric Brown. The results were, shall we say, humbling. Since I write speculative fiction on occasion, I cut and pasted some of my stuff on the website. It seems to tell a lot of people that they write like David Foster Wallace, which suggests a small database. There's a website where you can insert some of your own writing and it will tell you who what author you write like. ![]()
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