The Complete Short Fiction by Fletcher Pratt (2019)
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Overview: Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) US author and historian who began his career as an author and translator for Hugo Gernsback’s Wonder Stories and its companions in the early 1930s; his first published story was "The Octopus Cycle" for Amazing in 1928 as with Irvin Lester (a Pratt pseudonym). While doing translations of German sf novels Pratt evolved what became a renowned method of extracting payment from the notoriously slow Gernsback organization: he would submit the first part of a novel, wait until it was set in type, then refuse to deliver the conclusion until paid.
Pratt is now best remembered, however, for his fantasy, especially for the Harold Shea sequence with L Sprague de Camp. A second series with De Camp, the Gavagan’s Bar Club Stories assembled in Tales from Gavagan’s Bar (coll 1953; exp 1978), are mostly high-spirited Tall Tales, some of them sf. On their collaborations De Camp, as junior partner, would write a first draft after he and Pratt had jointly outlined the story; Pratt would then compose the final draft, to which De Camp would put the finishing editorial touches. This routine was varied in only a very few later short stories.
Pratt also wrote several volumes of popular history and three books on rockets and space travel including Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships (1951).
Genre:Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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Content:
About Fletcher Pratt
Bibliography
Short Fiction Bibliography: chronolgical
Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical
Fiction Series
1928
THE OCTOPUS CYCLE
THE GREAT STEEL PANIC
1929
THE ROGER BACON FORMULA
THE REIGN OF THE RAY
DANGER
1930
THE MAD DESTORYER
THE CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD
THE PINEAL STIMULATOR
and so on… and so on… and so on…
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