Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot
- by Reginald Bretnor
- Short Story
- Comedy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot,” as by Reginald Bretnor, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1956.
Under the anagrammatic name Grendel Briarton, Reginald Bretnor began a series of pun-terminated short, short stories in the May 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, some of which included time travel. Among others, they were a hit with Asimov both imitated and republished them in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine in the 1970s, and they also appeared in various other magazines. In fact, they were such a hit that any story-pun now goes by the generic name of a feghoot. But despite enjoying unforced puns, for me this kind of story is like a cross between that guy who built the Ark and the yellow part of a banana.
“Marsh in flying sauce oars,” said Ferdinand Feghoot.
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- “Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot,” as by Reginald Bretnor, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1956.
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Reginald Bretnor as by Grendel Briarton