Fredric Brown (1906–1972), American science fiction and mystery author
Brown also had the honor of being one of three dedicatees of Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (the other two being Robert Cornog and Philip Jose Farmer).
After searching for a place with a low cost of living, they moved to Taos, New Mexico, where Reynolds met science fiction writers Walt Sheldon and Fredric Brown.
In Fredric Brown's 1945 short story, "Pi in the Sky," an inventor rearranges the apparent positions of the stars to form an advertising slogan.
Brown University | James Brown | Gordon Brown | Chris Brown | Brown | Brown v. Board of Education | Jerry Brown | Mack Brown | Chris Brown (American entertainer) | Little, Brown and Company | Joe E. Brown | Chris Brown (American singer) | Charlie Brown | Joe E. Brown (comedian) | Ian Brown | Scott Brown | Sawyer Brown | Ray Brown (musician) | Pete Brown | Fredric March | Dan Brown | Savoy Brown | John Y. Brown, Jr. | John Seely Brown | Jim Brown | Ray Brown | Buster Brown | Bruce Brown | Willie Brown | Ruth Brown |
Some of the authors covered in the "Past Masters" series include Zenna Henderson, Fredric Brown, Edgar Pangborn, and Murray Leinster.
Argento borrowed heavily from crime thriller literature (some plot elements derive from works of Fredric Brown; Musante's character is named after an early incarnation of Raymond Chandler's iconic character Philip Marlowe) and from previous Italian thrillers (the killer's attire was lifted from Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace, of which he closely imitated the gory murder sequences) but he managed to make the end result fresh and provocative instead of derivative.
Writers have compared plot points from the 1951 science fiction book What Mad Universe by Fredric Brown and the 2006 film Stranger than Fiction by Zach Helm to Hubbard's tale.