Angels and Spaceships


Angels and Spaceships is a 1954 collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American writer Fredric Brown. It was initially published in hardcover by E. P. Dutton; a later Bantam paperback edition was retitled Star Shine.

Contents

  • "Introduction"
  • "Pattern"
  • "Placet is a Crazy Place"
  • "Answer"
  • "Etaoin Shrdlu"
  • "Preposterous"
  • "Armageddon"
  • "Politeness"
  • "The Waveries"
  • "Reconciliation"
  • "The Hat Trick"
  • "Search"
  • "Letter to a Phoenix"
  • "Daisies"
  • "The Angelic Angleworm"
  • "Sentence"
  • "The Yehudi Principle"
  • "Solipsist"
The original stories are generally very short vignettes.

Reception

Anthony Boucher found the collection "contains a little of everything, from screwball fantasy to sober science fiction" and praised Brown's "sparkling originality and delightfully crisp writing." P. Schuyler Miller found the stories to be "good fun", though not so impressive as Brown's novel-length work. Groff Conklin called the book "perfectly delightful", with eight of Brown's "very best stories".