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Fantasy deals with things that are not and cannot be. Science fiction deals with things that can be, that some day may be.

Fredric Brown

Overhead and in the far distance are the lights in the sky that are stars. The stars they tell us we can never reach because they are too far away. They lie; we'll get there. If rockets won't take us, something will.

Fredric Brown

"I've always been poor at geometry," he began... "You're telling me," said the demon gleefully. Smiling flames, it came for him across the chalk lines of the useless hexagram Henry had drawn by mistake instead of the protecting pentagram.

Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown

Born: October 29, 1906

Died: March 11, 1972 (aged 65)

Bio: Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer.

Known for:

Martians, Go Home (1955)
What Mad Universe (1949)
The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947)
The Screaming Mimi (1949)
Nightmares and Geezenstacks (1961)

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