The First and Second Reginald Bretnor Megapack by Reginald Bretnor
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Overview: Reginald Bretnor (1911-1992) was born Alfred Reginald Kahn in Vladivostok, Siberia. He was the son of a Latvian Jewish banker and an English governess. The family moved to Japan in 1917, then to San Diego, California, in 1920. Bretnor, whose name was taken from the maiden name of his maternal grandmother and who many acquaintances thought to be the perfect English gentleman, never left the United States in the 72 years he lived here and did not once set foot in Great Britain.
Bretnor wrote fantasy, science fiction, mysteries, children’s stories, military theory and public affairs articles. For half a century he also wrote stories and articles about cats, and was credited as the translator for the first book that we know of ever published on the subject: Moncrif’s "Les Chats" (1727).
Bretnor wrote with a good sense of humor and was fascinated by puns. Under the pseudonym of Grendel Briarton, he authored "Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot," a series of shaggy-dog-story-like science fiction puns which ran for years in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Venture and Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction magazines. Paradox Press published a paperback Feghoot collection in 1962. The Mirage Press published two more recent editions: The Compleat Feghoot and The (Even More) Compleat Feghoot.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The First Reginald Bretnor Megapack:
The late Reginald Bretnor (1911-1992) was never a prolific writer — he wrote only a handful of books and about 100 short stories (and more than 120 short-short "Feghoots" under his Grendel Briarton pseudonym) — over a 45-year writing career. In addition to wars, weaponry, and science fiction, Bretnor’s broad interests included cats. (And puns. Did we mention the horrible puns?) These subjects are all touched on in this collection. A sly sense of humor permeates Bretnor’s fiction, and as we work to digitize his complete body of work and present it to readers in a series of Reginald Bretnor Megapacks, we know you’ll have fun reading it all.
Included in this volume are:
SUGAR PLUM
GNURRS COME FROM THE VOODVORK OUT
CAT
MAYBE JUST A LITTLE ONE
UNKNOWN THINGS
BUG-GETTER
AUNT’S FLIGHT
DR. BIRDMOUSE
THE MAN ON TOP
THE BEASTS THAT PERISH
WITHOUT (GENERAL) ISSUE
MATING SEASON
MRS. PIGAFETTA SWIMS WELL
THE MURDERERS’ CIRCLE
PAPER TIGER
FUNGO THE UNRIGHTEOUS
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (5)
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (9)
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (11)
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (13)
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (77)
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (95)
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (101)
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (108)
The Second Reginald Bretnor Megapack:
The Second Reginald Bretnor Megapack collects 15 great science fiction, fantasy, and mystery tales — including two complete novels!
Included are:
THE HAUNTING OF H.M.S. "DRYAD"
FEGHOOT SHIPWRECKED
THE GHOST
CIVIL RIGHTS
GNURRS COME FROM THE VOODVORK OUT
LITTLE ANTON
THE LADIES OF BEETLEGOOSE NINE
COUNT VON SCHIMMELHORN AND THE TIME-PONY
PAPA SCHIMMELHORN’S YANG
PAPA SCHIMMELHORN AND THE S.O.D.O.M. SERUM
SCHIMMELHORN’S GOLD
T.V.
A KILLING IN SWORDS
IN A PICKLE
THE GNU MUTATION
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