Editing Reginald Bretnor (section)

==Bibliography==
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===Papa Schimmelhorn series===
* ''[[The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out]]'' (short story, 1950),<ref>{{cite magazine | author = Bretnor, Reginald | date = 1950 | title = The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out | magazine = [[Fantasy & Science Fiction]] (Winter/Spring) | location =  | publisher =  | url =  | access-date =  | quote =  }}{{full|date=March 2025}}</ref>{{full|date=March 2025}} a Retro-Hugo Best Short Story award nominee for 1951.<ref>{{cite web | author = [[Hugo Award]] Staff | date = August 31, 2001 | title = 1951 Retro-Hugo Awards | work = TheHugoAwards.org | location =  | publisher =  | url = http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1951-retro-hugo-awards/ | access-date = 22 March 2025 | quote =  }}</ref>
* ''Little Anton'' (novelette, 1951).{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''Papa Schimmelhorn and the S.O.D.O.M. Serum'' (1973).{{what|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''Count Von Schimmelhorn and the Time-Pony'' (novella, 1974).{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Ladies of Beetlegoose Nine'' (novella, 1976).{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''Papa Schimmelhorn's Yang'' (novelette, 1978).{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Schimmelhorn File: Memoirs of a Dirty Old Genius'' (collection, 1979).{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''Schimmelhorn's Gold'' (novel, 1986).{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''Nobelist Schimmelhorn'' (novelette, 1987).{{full|date=March 2025}}

===Symposia on science fiction===
Reginald Bretnor organised and edited several substantial volumes, inviting leading SF authors and science writers to contributing essays to his virtual symposia,<ref name="Nicol1974">{{cite web |url=http://www.depauw.edu/SFs/reviews_pages/r3.htm#c3 |title=Bretnor Returns |publisher=[[DePauw University]] |work=Science Fiction Studies #3 |first=Charles |last=Nicol |author-link=Charles Nicol |date=Spring 1974 |access-date=2008-12-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509164511/http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/reviews_pages/r3.htm#c3 |archive-date=2008-05-09 }}</ref> including the following, discussing the science fiction genre:

* ''Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium'' (1975, with [[Frederik Pohl]], [[Poul Anderson]], [[Jack Williamson]], [[Ray Bradbury]], [[Hal Clement]], [[Isaac Asimov]], [[Frank Herbert]], [[Hugo Gernsback]], [[Theodore Sturgeon]], [[A. E. van Vogt]], [[Cory Panshin]], [[Larry Niven]], [[James Blish]], [[Harlan Ellison]], [[E. E. Smith]])<ref name = SFcompendium1>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=52dlAAAAMAAJ |title=Google Book Search: Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow |isbn=9780060104672 |access-date=2008-12-12|last1=Bova |first1=Ben |year=1974 |publisher=Harper & Row }}</ref>
* ''The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy'' (1976, with [[Robert A. Heinlein]], [[Frederik Pohl]], [[Larry Niven]], [[Poul Anderson]], [[Harlan Ellison]], [[Hal Clement]], [[A. E. van Vogt]], [[Frank Herbert]], [[Jerry Pournelle]], [[Isaac Asimov]], [[Jack Williamson]], [[Norman Spinrad]])<ref name=SFcompendium2>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=up1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Craft+of+Science+Fiction |title=Google Book Search: The Craft of Science Fiction |isbn=9780060104610 |access-date=2008-12-12|last1=Bretnor |first1=Reginald |year=1976 |publisher=Harper & Row }}</ref>
* ''Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future'' (1953,<ref name=SFcompendium3>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2YOAAAAIAAJ&q=Modern+Science+Fiction:+Its+Meaning+and+Its+Future|title=Google Book Search: Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future |access-date=2008-12-12|last1=Campbell |first1=John W. |year=1953 }}</ref> second edition 1979, with [[John W. Campbell, Jr.]], [[Anthony Boucher]], [[Fletcher Pratt]], [[L. Sprague de Camp]], [[Isaac Asimov]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]], [[Philip Wylie]], [[Gerald Heard]])<ref name="MSF_1979">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gChaAAAAMAAJ&q=Second+edition|title=Google Book Search: Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future 'second edition' |isbn=9780911682236 |access-date=2008-12-12|last1=Campbell |first1=John Wood |year=1979 |publisher=Advent Publishers }}</ref>

===Non-fiction anthologies and related works===
Further volumes Bretnor wrote or organised, again leading to substantial volumes, were on the subject of the military and war.{{cn|date=March 2025}} In 1969, Bretnor published ''Decisive Warfare''.<ref name=Decisive/> Largely unnoticed by his science fiction readership and foreshadowing his ''Future at War'' series in 1979-1980,{{cn|date=March 2025}} it proved him a scholar of varied talents.{{says who|date=March 2025}}{{cn|date=March 2025}} His collection ''Of Force and Violence and Other Imponderables: Essays on War, Politics, and Government'' was published in 1992,{{cn|date=March 2025}} the year of his death.
* ''Decisive Warfare: A Study in Military Theory'' (1969, author).<ref name=Decisive/>{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Future at War I: Thor's Hammer'' (1979, editor).<ref name=TFaWIthor/>{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Future at War II: The Spear of Mars'' (1980, editor).<ref name=TFaWIImars/>{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Future at War III: Orion's Sword'' (1980, editor).<ref name=TFaWIIIorion/>{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''Of Force and Violence and Other Imponderables: Essays on War, Politics, and Government'' (1992, editor).{{cn|date=March 2025}} 

===Other fiction works===
* ''Maybe Just A Little One'' (short story, 1947).<ref name="fsf1stswho">{{cite web |url=http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/bibliography/fsf1stswho01.htm |title=First publications (by author)
|work=[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]|access-date=2008-12-12}}{{full|date=March 2025}}</ref>{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''A Killing in Swords'' (1978).{{what|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Doorstep'' (1957, and earlier).{{what|date=March 2025}}<ref>First published in ''[[Astounding]]'',{{full|date=March 2025}} and later in ''The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy'', [[Judith Merril]] editor, June 1957, pp. 89-97.{{full|date=March 2025}}</ref>{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Man On Top''.{{when|date=March 2025}}{{what|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''Cat''.{{when|date=March 2025}}{{what|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''[[Genius of the Species]]''.{{when|date=March 2025}}{{what|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Past and Its Dead People''.{{when|date=March 2025}}{{what|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and All''.{{when|date=March 2025}}{{what|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Proud Foot of the Conqueror''.{{when|date=March 2025}}{{what|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''Unknown Things''.{{when|date=March 2025}}{{what|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}
* ''The Timeless Tales of Reginald Bretnor'' (posthumous collection, 15 short stories).{{when|date=March 2025}}{{full|date=March 2025}}

===Ferdinand Feghoot series===
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Under the pseudonym '''Grendel Briarton''' (an anagram of Reginald Bretnor), he published a series of over eighty science-fiction themed [[shaggy dog story|shaggy-dog]]  [[Vignette (literature)|vignettes]] featuring the time-traveling hero Ferdinand Feghoot.  Known as "[[Feghoot]]s", the stories involved Feghoot resolving a situation encountered while traveling through time and space (à la [[Doctor Who]]) with a bad pun.  In one example, he explained his inability to pay his dues for a Sherlock Holmes fan society by turning out his empty pockets and declaring "share lack". In his adventures, Feghoot worked for the Society for the Aesthetic Re-Arrangement of History and traveled via a device that had no name but was typographically represented as the ")(".  In 1980, ''The Compleat Feghoot'' collected all of Bretnor's Feghoots published up to  that time and included a selection of winners and honorable mentions from a contest run by ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]''. The book is, as of 2006, out of print and very rare.