num_pages: 14
description: Fredric Brown is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the short short form stories of 1 to 3 pages often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. One of his stories Arena is officially credited for an adaptation as an episode of the landmark television series Star Trek. With no more room left on Earth and with Mars hanging up there empty of life somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet. It meant changing the habits and physical structure of the immigrants but that worked out fine. In fact every possible factor was covered -- except one of the flaws of human nature. . . .
language: English
title: Keep Out
publisher: None