Editing Fredric Brown (section)

== Popularity and influence ==
Brown's first mystery novel, ''[[The Fabulous Clipjoint]]'', won the [[Edgar Award]] for outstanding first mystery novel.<ref name="BlogUrania" /> His short story "[[Arena (short story)|Arena]]" was voted by [[Science Fiction Writers of America]] as one of the top 20 science fiction stories written before 1965.

His 1945 short story "[[The Waveries]]" was described by [[Philip K. Dick]] as "what may be the most significant—startlingly so—story sci-fi has yet produced".<ref>{{Cite book|last=May|first=Andrew|title=Pseudoscience and Science Fiction|year=2016|pages=77|bibcode=2017psf..book.....M }}</ref> Brown was one of three dedicatees of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s 1961 novel ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' (the other two being [[Robert Cornog]] and [[Philip José Farmer]]).<ref>{{cite web|website=Nitrosyncretic.com|url=http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/dedications.html |title=Heinlein's Dedications}}</ref> Philosopher and novelist [[Umberto Eco]] in his book ''[[On Ugliness]]'' describes Brown's short story "Sentry" as, "one of the finest short stories produced by contemporary science fiction" and uses its twist ending as an example of how ugliness and aesthetics are relative to different cultures.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eco |first1=Umberto |title=On Ugliness |date=2011 |publisher=Rizzoli |isbn=978-0847837236 |page=12}}</ref>

In ''[[The Annotated Alice]]'' (1960), [[Martin Gardner]] refers to Brown's ''Night of the Jabberwock'' as a "magnificently funny mystery novel ... an outstanding work of fiction that has close ties to the ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice]]'' books."<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annotated Alice|first=Martin|last=Gardner|year=1960|publisher=Clarkson N. Potter|isbn=0-517-02962-6}}</ref>

In his non-fiction book ''[[Danse Macabre (King book)|Danse Macabre]]'' (1981), a survey of the horror genre since 1950, writer [[Stephen King]] includes an appendix of "roughly one hundred" influential books of the period: Fredric Brown's short-story collection ''Nightmares and Geezenstacks'' is included, and is, moreover, asterisked as being among those select works King regards as "particularly important".

Brown's 1943 short story, "Madman's Holiday", was adapted into the 1946 [[RKO Pictures|RKO]] film [[Crack-Up (1946 film)|''Crack-Up'']].<ref name=":0" /> His novel ''[[The Screaming Mimi (novel)|The Screaming Mimi]]'' became a [[Screaming Mimi (film)|1958 film]] starring [[Anita Ekberg]] and [[Gypsy Rose Lee]] and directed by [[Gerd Oswald]].

Brown's 1950 short story, "The Last Martian", was adapted as "Human Interest Story", a 1959 episode of ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''. In Spain, his 1961 short story "Nightmare in Yellow" was adapted as ''El cumpleaños'' (The Birthday), the 1966 debut episode of ''[[Historias para no dormir]]''. Another shorty story, 1954's "Naturally", was adapted as ''[[Geometria (film)|Geometria]]'', a 1987 short film by director [[Guillermo del Toro]]. 

In the third episode of the third season of Amazon's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's ''[[The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|The Man In The High Castle]]'' Oberstgruppenführer Smith remarks, when told of the possibility of travel between worlds, that "this is like something out of Fredric Brown", implying that Brown's work is known in the German-occupied areas of the former United States.<ref>{{YouTube|VP9wkTEgORI|title="The Man in the High Castle Season 3 – Exclusive: New York Comic Con Sneak Peek"}}</ref>

His novel ''The Lights in the Sky Are Stars'' gives its name to the final episode of 2007 anime ''[[Gurren Lagann]]''.<ref>{{cite web|website=imdb.com|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1785142/?ref_=ttep_ep27 |title=Tengen toppa gurren lagann (2007) – The Lights in the Sky Are Stars}}</ref> It is also referred to in Taishi Tsutsui's manga ''[[We Never Learn]]'', at the end of Chapter 39.<ref>{{cite web|website=tumblr.com|url=https://infredricbrownsshadow.tumblr.com/post/638144880893378560/we-never-learn-about-fredric-brown|title=We Never Learn about Fredric Brown}}</ref>

Celebrated crime novelist [[Lawrence Block]] published ''The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown'' in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-23 |title=The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown—a preview! |url=https://lawrenceblock.com/the-burglar-who-met-fredric-brown-a-preview/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=Lawrence Block |language=en-US}}</ref>