Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot
by Reginald Bretnor

Between 1955 and 1992, Reginald Bretnor wrote 122 very short sci-fi stories about Ferdinand Feghoot, who travels through space and time solving interplanetary problems. Each story is an elaborate setup for an awesome/awful pun. They became a thing: “A feghoot … is a humorous short story or vignette ending in a pun (typically a play on a well-known phrase), where the story contains sufficient context to recognize the punning humor.” (Wikipedia)

They’ve been out of print for 30 years, and copies of the 1992 Pulphouse collected edition are selling for hundreds of dollars on eBay. On December 10, they’ll be back in print in a deluxe edition featuring Tim Kirk’s illustrations from the 1992 edition as well as new illustrations by Eric Raglin, Betty Rocksteady, Lor Gislason, Jacob Blanchet, Bonnie Hockin, Bert SG, and others.

“I loved the Feghoots and wish I could do a blurb for you. But I decided a few years ago to go out of the blurb business, on the grounds that if I said yes to one publisher, I’d have no good reason for refusing another, and then there would be no end to it. Sorry.” —Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg

Most of the Feghoots originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Isaac Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine, The Baker Street Journal, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Venture Science Fiction Magazine. They were initially collected in the book The Compleat Feghoot (Pulphouse, 1992). They are used by permission of John Betancourt, the owner of the Reginald Bretnor copyrights.

Cover illustration by Tim Kirk. Color by Anton W. Blake. Banner by Alex Ensign.

Release Date: December 3, 2024