Talk:Fredric Brown

"Knock"

I've recently written up an article on his supposedly shortest short-storey: Knock, so I implore you to contribute what you can thereto to improve such therefore thusly just. DrWho42 22:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

fast?

according to the intro in "paradox lost" (written by his wife after his death), he could never manage more than a few pages a day. I'll update article to reflect info from this if I have time. -- Akb4 10:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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I believe there's a lengthy story about him in the graphic novel Sandman by Neil Gaiman.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.66.43 (talk) 19:01, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

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== PLAGIARISM == The first two paragraphs of this entry were lifted entirely, and word-for-word, from this website at this link [1] . Shameful.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.181.196.2 (talk) 14:33, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

That may explain why the tone is so off. An encyclopedia entry should not sound like a fan page. No one has changed this in ten years, so I will make a few deletions. Wintermaiden (talk) 06:43, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

External Links

Was there a specific reason for reverting the link to Fredric Brown's online fiction? Similar links have been used on other SF authors' pages for years (see e.g. Charles Stross, Ted Chiang, Poul Anderson) Vs2005 (talk) 22:42, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Where are the citations?

Someone needs to add references to the text. If no one does, then I will. Geraldshields11 (talk) 01:46, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

A possible starting point for cites is http://io9.com/5918638/the-best-science-fiction-writer-you-didnt-know-youd-read . Geraldshields11 (talk) 12:18, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

"The Waverlies" vs. "The Waveries"

I can't edit to fix the mistake in that citation under "References" as I lack the experience to edit tables. Please know it needs to be fixed as "1. "The Waveries"--and, thus, please delete this unnecessary notice. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.81.163.142 (talk) 19:24, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Title cited in anime Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars. But Brown got his title from Archibald MacLeish’s poem, Epistle to Be Left in the Earth, which in part reads

Beware of elms in thunder The lights in the sky are stars

So which was the anime’s source? 2600:1702:3650:8E70:AD97:30F9:89C0:A3B1 (talk) 03:09, 13 May 2022 (UTC)