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Daymare

Fredric Brown

First published November 1943
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Notes

A police investigator on Callisto is confronted with the impossible murder of a man assassinated in five different and contradictory ways, according to eye-witnesses. And this is only the beginning…

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2019 Retro Hugo Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (25)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1943 Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1943 Standard Magazines, Inc. MAGAZINE 15
1945 The Saint's Choice of Impossible Crime Bond-Charteris Anthology 80
July 1951 Space on My Hands Shasta Collection 95
1953 Space on My Hands Corgi Collection 95
January 1953 Space on My Hands Bantam Books Collection 95
January 1953 Space on My Hands Bantam Books Collection 95
1968 Daymares Lancer Books Collection 54
May 1980 Space on My Hands Bantam Books Collection 95
March 1981 The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 5, 1943 DAW Books Anthology 178
March 1981 The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 5, 1943 DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 178
September 1982 The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown New English Library Collection 101
1984 Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Third Series Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology 178
1989 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s Robinson Anthology 167
1989 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s Carroll & Graf Anthology 167
1989 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s Carroll & Graf Anthology 167
1991 Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction Galahad Books Anthology
1991 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction Jaico Publishing House Anthology 167
June 1993 Space on My Hands Lightyear Press Collection
February 2001 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 118
October 2001 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press / SFBC Collection 118
July 2002 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 118
2007 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction Robinson Anthology 175
2007 The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction Carroll & Graf Anthology 175
June 2011 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 118
February 2014 The Second Fredric Brown Megapack: 27 Classic Science Fiction Stories Wildside Press Collection |260