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Placet Is a Crazy Place

Fredric Brown

First published May 1946
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A man attempts to manage a research station on a planet in a distant system, where the weird laws of physics cause people to have hallucinations for 4 hours a day, and where birds composed of dense matter flying through the dense matter bedrock destroy the foundations of any building.

Publications (34)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1946 Astounding Science Fiction, May 1946 Street & Smith Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 118
1951 Travelers of Space Gnome Press Anthology 265
1953 Travelers of Space Gnome Press Anthology 265
September 1954 Angels and Spaceships E. P. Dutton Collection 15
1955 Travelers of Space Gnome Press Anthology 265
February 1955 Angels and Spaceships Dutton / SFBC Collection 6
September 1955 Angels and Spaceships Gollancz Collection 15
February 1956 Star Shine Bantam Books Collection 2
September 1956 Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories Faber and Faber Anthology 87
September 1958 Best SF Two The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Anthology
1960 Best SF Two Faber and Faber Anthology 87
September 1960 Out of This World 1 Blackie Anthology 132
1962 Angels and Spaceships Four Square Books Collection 12
1962 Best SF Two Faber and Faber Anthology 87
1964 Best SF Two Faber and Faber Anthology 87
1965 Out of This World 1 Blackie Anthology 132
1968 Best SF Two Faber and Faber Anthology 87
1972 The Astounding-Analog Reader: Volume One Doubleday Anthology 518
January 1973 Science Fiction: The Great Years Ace Books Anthology 173
October 1973 The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two Sphere Anthology 307
March 1974 Science Fiction: The Great Years Gollancz Anthology 161
August 1976 Science Fiction: The Great Years Ace Books Anthology 173
January 1977 Science Fiction: The Great Years Sphere Books Anthology 143
December 1980 The Analog Anthology #1 Davis Publications Anthology 127
1981 Analog's Golden Anniversary Anthology The Dial Press Anthology 127
1982 Fifty Years of the Best Science Fiction from Analog Davis Publications Anthology 127
November 1982 The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 8, 1946 DAW Books Anthology 101
November 1982 The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 8, 1946 DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 101
December 1984 The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Fourth Series Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology 417
February 2001 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 256
October 2001 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press / SFBC Collection 256
July 2002 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 256
June 2011 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 256
February 2014 The Second Fredric Brown Megapack: 27 Classic Science Fiction Stories Wildside Press Collection |230