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The works of Fredric Brown by Rico Kelley, Jr.

Fredric Brown was a writer that could be classified as a science fiction writer, but also as an experimental writer. His writting style includes writing in both first and second person and blending two different time periods together. He also is highly educated. He attended the University of Cincinatti. Born in 1906, he witnessed a depression, two world wars, and the civil rights movement! This is apearent in his books such as "The Waveries" where he has the story in the 1930's.The best example of his experimental/ science fiction style writing is in "The Waveries". In this story, he has people thatlisten to entire news broadcasts in morsecode! The people also refere to jets as "rocket planes" when jets weren't even mass produced untill the late 40's. He also used espressions to descride what he was talking about. In descriding a mass crowd hunting for jobs, Brown uses "the guns of the invasion weren't loud, but were heard by everyone." Fredric Brown is one of the more different writers but still manages to make the combinatoin of sciencefiction and experimental writing work and flow together.

Another book by Fredric Brown called Cincinnati Blues Above, pictures of Fredric Brown.

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