Title: Clever Little Puzzle Boxes
Product review: Fredric Brown's stories are like little puzzle boxes. They are, or tend to be, based on ideas, rather than characters or plot. Brown starts with an idea and then prods it, pokes it, twists it and turns it, until it either unwinds or explodes.Many of these stories are slight-- 1,000 words or less-- bathroom reading! But they all have a sense of fun and wonder that is contagious.Brown's longer science fiction novels weren't that great... novels like Martians Go Home weren't capable of sustaining their ideas over the length of the story. But his short fiction really shines!
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