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Fletcher Pratt

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Murray Fletcher Pratt (25 April 1897 – 10 June 1956) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history. [1]

51 relations: Alien Planet (novel), American Civil War, Americans, Bernard DeVoto, Black Widowers, Buffalo Courier-Express, Buffalo, New York, Civil War Roundtable, Double in Space, Double Jeopardy (novel), Fantasy, Harold Shea, History, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Inga Stephens Pratt Clark, Invaders from Rigel, Isaac Asimov, Jack Coggins, L. Sprague de Camp, Land of Unreason, Laurence Manning, List of science-fiction authors, Long Branch, New Jersey, Marmoset, Mystery fiction, Naval history, Pulp magazine, Science fiction, Staten Island, Tales from Gavagan's Bar, The Blue Star (novel), The Carnelian Cube, The Castle of Iron, The Compleat Enchanter, The Complete Compleat Enchanter, The Incomplete Enchanter, The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, The New York Times Book Review, The Petrified Planet, The Undying Fire (Pratt novel), The Well of the Unicorn, Time (magazine), Tonawanda (town), New York, Trap Door Spiders, University of Paris, Wall of Serpents, Wargaming, Witches Three, Wonder Stories, World of Wonder (anthology), ..., World War II. Expand index (1 more) »

Alien Planet (novel)

Alien Planet is a science fiction novel by Fletcher Pratt.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Bernard DeVoto

Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 – November 13, 1955), American historian, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer, was a lifelong champion of American Public lands and the conservation of public resources as well as an outspoken defender of civil liberties.

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Black Widowers

The Black Widowers is a fictional men-only dining club created by Isaac Asimov for a series of sixty-six mystery stories that he started writing in 1971.

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Buffalo Courier-Express

The Buffalo Courier-Express was a morning newspaper in Buffalo, New York.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Civil War Roundtable

Civil War Roundtables (also referred to as Round Tables or CWRTs) are independent organizations that share a common objective in promoting and expanding interest in the study of the military, political and sociological history of the American Civil War.

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Double in Space

Double in Space is a title used for two distinct collections of science fiction novellas by Fletcher Pratt, one published in the United States and the other in the United Kingdom.

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Double Jeopardy (novel)

Double Jeopardy is a science fiction novel by Fletcher Pratt.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Harold Shea

The "Harold Shea" Stories is a name given to a series of five science fantasy stories by the collaborative team of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt and to its later continuation by de Camp alone, Christopher Stasheff, Holly Lisle, John Maddox Roberts, Roland J. Green, Frieda A. Murray, Tom Wham, and Lawrence Watt-Evans.

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.

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Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hobart and William Smith Colleges are private liberal arts colleges in Geneva, New York.

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Inga Stephens Pratt Clark

Inga Marie Stephens Pratt Clark (1906–1970) was an American artist and book illustrator, who with her husband Fletcher Pratt was at the center of a circle of New York literary figures during the 20th Century.

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Invaders from Rigel

Invaders from Rigel is a science fiction novel by American writer Fletcher Pratt.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Jack Coggins

Jack Banham Coggins (July 10, 1911 – January 30, 2006) was an artist, author, and illustrator.

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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction.

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Land of Unreason

Land of Unreason is a fantasy novel by American writers Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp.

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Laurence Manning

Laurence Manning (July 20, 1899 – April 10, 1972) was a Canadian science fiction author.

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List of science-fiction authors

Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate or did not work in that genre.

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Long Branch, New Jersey

Long Branch is a beachside city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.

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Marmoset

The marmosets,, also known as zaris, are twenty-two New World monkey species of the genera Callithrix, Cebuella, Callibella and Mico.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.

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Naval history

Naval history is the area of military history concerning war at sea and the subject is also a sub-discipline of the broad field of maritime history.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.

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Tales from Gavagan's Bar

Tales from Gavagan's Bar is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, illustrated by the latter's wife Inga Pratt.

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The Blue Star (novel)

The Blue Star is a fantasy novel by the American writer Fletcher Pratt, the second of his two major fantasies.

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The Carnelian Cube

The Carnelian Cube is a fantasy novel by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt.

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The Castle of Iron

The Castle of Iron is the title of a fantasy novella by American authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, and of the novel into which it was later expanded by the same authors.

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The Compleat Enchanter

The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea is an omnibus collection of three fantasy stories by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, gathering material previously published in two volumes as The Incomplete Enchanter (1941) and The Castle of Iron (1950), the first two books in their Harold Shea series, with the essay "Fletcher and I", de Camp's paean to his deceased collaborator.

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The Complete Compleat Enchanter

The Complete Compleat Enchanter is an omnibus collection of five fantasy stories by Ametican authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, gathering material previously published in three volumes as The Incomplete Enchanter (1941), The Castle of Iron (1950), and Wall of Serpents (1960), and represents an expansion of the earlier omnibus The Compleat Enchanter, which contained only the material in the first two volumes.

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The Incomplete Enchanter

The Incomplete Enchanter is a collection of two fantasy novellas American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, the first volume in their Harold Shea series.

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The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt

The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt is an omnibus collection of seven fantasy stories by American science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, gathering material previously published in three volumes as The Incomplete Enchanter (1941), The Castle of Iron (1950), and Wall of Serpents (1960) together with additional material from The Enchanter Reborn (1992) and The Exotic Enchanter (1995).

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The Petrified Planet

The Petrified Planet is an anthology of three original science fiction stories, edited by the un-credited Fletcher Pratt and published by Twayne in 1952.

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The Undying Fire (Pratt novel)

The Undying Fire is a science fiction novel by Fletcher Pratt.

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The Well of the Unicorn

The Well of the Unicorn is a fantasy novel by the American writer Fletcher Pratt.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tonawanda (town), New York

Tonawanda (formally, the Town of Tonawanda) is a town in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Trap Door Spiders

The Trap Door Spiders are a literary male-only eating, drinking, and arguing society in New York City, with a membership historically composed of notable science fiction personalities.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), metonymically known as the Sorbonne (one of its buildings), was a university in Paris, France, from around 1150 to 1793, and from 1806 to 1970.

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Wall of Serpents

Wall of Serpents is a collection of two fantasy short stories by American science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, the third volume in their Harold Shea series.

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Wargaming

A wargame (also war game) is a strategy game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional.

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Witches Three

Witches Three is an anthology of three original fantasy stories, edited by the uncredited Fletcher Pratt and published in hardcover by Twayne in 1952.

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Wonder Stories

Wonder Stories is an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955.

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World of Wonder (anthology)

World of Wonder is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories edited by Fletcher Pratt, published in hardcover by Twayne in 1951.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Pratt

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