Arena

A man against an alien: the fate of two civilizations depends on their clash.
A great classic from which one of the most famous Star Trek episodes was taken

A man and an alien, alone, on an inhospitable planet. They are called to confront each other as champions of their own species, but they have no weapons available, except those that they will be able to build themselves, with the few resources offered by the planet.

Fredric Brown signs a great classic of science fiction, from which in 1967 Gene L. Coon will draw (very freely) the eponymous episode of Star Trek.

[About the Author]: Fredric Brown was born in Cincinnati in 1906 and died in Tucson in 1972. A highly acclaimed mystery writer, winner of the Edgar Award, Brown is known in science fiction above all for his extraordinary short and very short stories, such as the famous Sentinel or The Answer, with which in 1954 he anticipated in a few lines the modern concept of technological singularity, or Arena, included among the best 25 science fiction stories of all time and from which a famous episode of Star Trek was taken. Brown also has two of the funniest and most brilliant science fiction novels of the Golden Age on his resume: Martians, go home! (1955, Delos Books), included from various sources in the hundred best science fiction novels of all time, and Absurd universe (1949), which under Brown's irresistible irony anticipates themes that will be at the center of Philip K. Dick.

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