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Fletcher Pratt

Born

in Buffalo, New York, The United States

April 25, 1897

Died

June 10, 1956

Genre

History, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956) was a science fiction and fantasy writer; he was also well-known as a writer on naval history and on the American Civil War.

Pratt attended Hobart College for one year. During the 1920s he worked for the Buffalo Courier-Express and on a Staten Island newspaper. In the late 1920s he began selling stories to pulp magazines. When a fire gutted his apartment in the 1930s he used the insurance money to study at the Sorbonne for a year. After that he began writing histories.

Wargamers know Pratt as the inventor of a set of rules for civilian naval wargaming before the Second World War. This was known as the "Naval War Game" and was based on a wargame developed by Fred T. Jane involving dozens of tiny wooden ships, ...more

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	The Well of the Unicorn 3.42 avg rating — 881 ratings — published 1948 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue Star 3.11 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1952 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire 3.75 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1948 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Battles that Changed History 3.61 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1956 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yaşayan Ölüler Şehri by Fletcher Pratt, Laurence Manning, Deniz Kurt (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1930 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ordeal by Fire: An Informal History of the Civil War 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil War in Pictures 3.67 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1955 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invaders from Rigel 2.64 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monitor and the Merrimac and Other Naval Battles by Fletcher Pratt, John O'Hara Cosgrave II (Illustrator) 3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alien Planet 2.94 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1932 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. ("The Gift Of God").”
― Fletcher Pratt, Tales from Gavagan's Bar

tags: community, introductions

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“A fine young man and a fine young felly he always was, except that in the old days, before you began coming in here, Mr. Witherwax, he maybe had too much money and spent too much of it on girls. Take them alone, either one; the money without the women, or a good girl without the money that can be a help to a young felly, and he's fixed for life. But put them together; and often as not, the young felly goes on the booze. ("The Better Mousetrap")”
― Fletcher Pratt, Tales from Gavagan's Bar

tags: alochol, booze, drinking, marriage, men, money, women

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“That's just like the manual says," said Witherwax. "If we want to have international brotherhood, we gotta get a language that everybody understands all the time."

"You mean with no homonyms?" said Doc Brenner.

Mr. Gross belched again, and held up two fingers to indicate another Boilermaker. "Are you saying that the language a fella speaks can make a fairy of him?" ("Gin Comes In Bottles")”
― Fletcher Pratt, Tales from Gavagan's Bar

tags: gay, homsexual, language

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