His 1st science fiction story, "Not Yet the End", was published inside Captainside New in 1941. Numbers of of the stories which followed come short, practically extended jokes like than actual stories. Even so, Red wrote by owning an piquant style.

Humor carried across into his novels too. His science fiction novel What Mad Universe (1949) plays with the clichéd conventions of the genre by throwing the fiber magazine editor into the parallel globe depending, nin on the heroic tale he published, however like on a naif fan's image of victims stories & a human world health organization published the babies. Likewise, Martians, Last Personal (1955) looks at the Martian invasion through the eyes of a science fiction creator.

One of his best known short stories, "Arena", wwhen utilized as a basis for an episode of Star Trek of the same title.

Bibliography

General Fiction

The Office (1958)

Mysteries

The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947), Edgar Award winner for best number 1 novel The Dead Ringer (1948) A Plot for Murder (1948) The Bloody Moonlight (1949) The Screaming Mimi (1949), ISBN 0881844497 Compliments of a Fiend (1950) Here Comes a Candle (1950) Night of the Jabberwock (1951) Death Has Many Doors (1951) The Far Cry (1951) We All Killed Grandma (1952) The Deep End (1953) Madball (1953) His Name Was Death (1954) The Wench Is Dead (1955) The Lenient Beast (1956), ISBN 0881844446 One for the Road (1958) Knock Three-One-Two (1959) The Late Lamented (1959) The Murderers (1961) Five-Day Nightmare (1962) ''Mrs. Murphy's Underpants (1963)

Science Fiction

What Mad Universe (1949) Space on My Hands (1953), ISBN 0899683320 (collection) The Lights in the Sky are Stars (1953), also published when Project Jupiter Angels & Spaceships (1954) (collection) also published as Star Shine Martians, Go Home (1955), which was the basis for an arguably in the image below-par 1990 movie of the same title, starring Randy Quaid and Margaret Colin Rogue in Space (1957) The Mind Thing (1961)

The further recent collection of his short science fiction and fantasy is:

From either These Ashes: A Complete Short SF of Fredric 'last (200One), ISBN 1-886778-18-3

His science fiction novels are collected around:

Martians & Madness'' (2002), ISBN One-886778-17-5