From An Unseen Censor

by Rosel George Brown, Mark Nelson (Narrator)

You can't beat my uncle Isadore - he's dead but he's quick - yet that is just what he was daring me to try and do!.

Science Fiction
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First published in ”Galaxy Magazine”

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Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction

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First published September 1, 1958

About the author

Born New Orleans, Louisiana, she lived in the city of her birth with her husband after concluding her formal education at Sophie Newcomb College, where she majored in Greek, and at the University of Minnesota where she received her M.A. in Greek. Several of her books were dedicated to her husband W. Burlie Brown, who was a history professor at Tulane University. The couple had two children. In addition to writing, she worked as a teacher and a welfare visitor in Louisiana. In 1959, she was nominated for the Hugo Award for best new author, but her career was cut short when she died of lymphoma at the age of 41 in 1967. The fourth Nebula Award Anthology contains an obituary written by Daniel F. Galouye, and Anne McCaffrey dedicated her 1970 anthology Alchemy & Academe to Brown, along with several other people. Brown and McCaffrey had met at a Milford Writer's Workshop.

Reviews

[Ralph McEwen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun short story with good characters and an interesting plot. The narrator Mark Nelson as always is easy to listen to. The recording is professional and seamless.

[Phil Giunta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Science fiction comedy in which a young man locates his uncle's crashed ship on a planet with the help of an irascible guide. The fun begins when they set out to find the old man's fortune with the aid of a talking bird reminiscent of the extinct dodo.