Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot

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  • "I
  • loved
  • the
  • Feghoots
  • and
  • wish
  • I
  • could
  • do
  • a
  • blurb
  • for
  • you.
  • But
  • I
  • decided
  • a
  • few
  • years
  • ago
  • to
  • go
  • out
  • of
  • the
  • blurb
  • business,
  • on
  • the
  • grounds
  • that
  • if
  • I
  • said
  • yes
  • to
  • one
  • publisher,
  • I'd
  • have
  • no
  • good
  • reason
  • for
  • refusing
  • another,
  • and
  • then
  • there
  • would
  • be
  • no
  • end
  • to
  • it.
  • Sorry."
  • —Science
  • Fiction
  • Grand
  • Master
  • Robert
  • SilverbergBetween
  • 1956
  • and
  • 1992,
  • under
  • the
  • name
  • Grendel
  • Briarton
  • (an
  • anagram
  • of
  • his
  • real
  • name),
  • Reginald
  • Bretnor
  • wrote
  • 122
  • very
  • short
  • sci-fi
  • stories
  • about
  • Ferdinand
  • Feghoot,
  • a
  • time-traveling,
  • galaxy-hopping
  • emissary
  • from
  • the
  • Society
  • for
  • the
  • Aesthetic
  • Rearrangement
  • of
  • History.
  • Using
  • a
  • device
  • known
  • only
  • as
  • )(,
  • Feghoot
  • visits
  • and
  • solves
  • the
  • problems
  • of
  • historical
  • figures
  • and
  • intelligent
  • beings
  • on
  • other
  • worlds.
  • Each
  • story
  • is
  • an
  • elaborate
  • setup
  • for
  • an
  • awesome/awful
  • pun.
  • They
  • became
  • an
  • art
  • form:
  • "A
  • feghoot
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • is
  • a
  • humorous
  • short
  • story
  • or
  • vignette
  • ending
  • in
  • a
  • pun
  • (typically
  • a
  • play
  • on
  • a
  • well-known
  • phrase),
  • where
  • the
  • story
  • contains
  • sufficient
  • context
  • to
  • recognize
  • the
  • punning
  • humor"
  • (Wikipedia).
  • They've
  • been
  • out
  • of
  • print
  • for
  • 30
  • years.
  • This
  • new
  • edition
  • contains
  • all
  • of
  • Bretnor's
  • original
  • Feghoots
  • plus
  • his
  • essay
  • "On
  • the
  • Proper
  • Perpetration
  • of
  • Feghoots";
  • a
  • foreword
  • by
  • Dean
  • Smith,
  • who
  • worked
  • with
  • Bretnor
  • in
  • the
  • last
  • year
  • of
  • his
  • life;
  • and
  • a
  • bevy
  • of
  • illustrations
  • old
  • and new.
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