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  SPACELIGHT: Pratt, Fletcher - personal data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Pratt was often researching and writing three and four works at once.
But more exactly, Fletcher's main area of expertise and hobby was studying the legendary battles of war, from prehistory up until modern times.
Pratt's last work, The Compact History of the United States Navy was completed one week before he died.
www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/pratt.html   (238 words)

  
  Fletcher Pratt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956) was a science fiction and fantasy writer; he was also well-known as a writer on naval history and on the American Civil War.
Pratt himself was fictionalized in one story, "To the Barest," as the Widowers' founder, Ralph Ottur.
Pratt is best known for his fantasy collaborations with de Camp, the most famous of which is the humorous Harold Shea series, was eventually published in full as The Complete Compleat Enchanter (1989, ISBN 0-671-69809-5).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fletcher_Pratt   (671 words)

  
 Synopsis: Sir Harold and The Gnome King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
IN JANUARY 1939, I met Fletcher Pratt in New York and was soon enrolled in his circle of naval war-game players.
He had in mind a fantasy based upon the premise that, by manipulating symbolic logic (which I happened to be studying), one could transfer oneself to any of the multitude of possible universes described in fiction, myth, and legend.
Pratt and I saw to it that Harold began to mature.
www.lspraguedecamp.com /works/work.asp?id=218   (893 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Well of the Unicorn: Books: Fletcher Pratt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the late 1940s Pratt (1897-1956; not to be confused with the group "The Fletcher Pratt"!) was a well-known military historian; several of his works in this field are, or were recently, still in print (including one of the others with Palacios maps).
Pratt has interesting things to say about a number of topics, from sex to politics, not all of them immediately evident, but clear enough when you start looking for them, in the words and actions of minor as well as major characters.
(Pratt seems to have felt that inflexible thinking was often a source of problems in itself.) Characters express views, often tied directly to their experiences, and the reader is left to draw conclusions.
www.amazon.com /Well-Unicorn-Fletcher-Pratt/dp/0345297296   (2651 words)

  
 Men's Basketball to Take on Louisiana-Lafayette ::
Fletcher entered the season with a chance to become the Sun Belt Conference's second winningest coach in terms of conference victories, he currently is in sole possession of third place on that list with 64 and is now just six wins short of second place.
Pratt also has four of Denver's high-point games this season, as his two best outputs were a season-best 27 points against Brown Dec. 3rd after scoring 26 against Oregon in the season-opener.
Pratt is eighth in the Sun Belt with a 14.9 scoring average and third in free throw percentage at 83 percent (49-of-59).
denverpioneers.collegesports.com /sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/012401aaa.html   (3779 words)

  
 Fletcher Pratt
Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897—1956) was a science fiction and fantasy writer; he was also well-known as a writer on naval history and on the American Civil War.
Pratt himself was fictionalized in one story, "To the Barest," as the Widowers' founder, Ralph Ottur.
Pratt is best known for his fantasy collaborations with de Camp, the most famous of which is the humorous Harold Shea series, was eventually published in full as The Complete Compleat Enchanter (1989, ISBN 0-671-69809-5).
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Fletcher_Pratt.php   (719 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: A Short History of the Civil War : Ordeal by Fire: Books: Fletcher Pratt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fletcher Pratt could spend a paragraph or two on that campaign, and when done you'll notice your leg's hurt.
My favorite chapters are the early ones, where Pratt lays out the big picture of the war and discusses the lightning moves of diplomacy that kept Kentucky and Missouri in the Union and thereby gave the Union the strategic advantage.
Fletcher Pratt was determined to remind you that the Civil War was a WAR, long and bloody and dramatic, with the issue in doubt from the begining till very near the end.
www.amazon.ca /Short-History-Civil-War-Ordeal/dp/0486297020   (1107 words)

  
 Men's Basketball Looks to Make it Two in a Row ::
Fletcher entered the season with a chance to become the Sun Belt Conference’s second winningest coach in terms of conference victories, he currently is in sole possession of third place on that list with 65 and is just five wins short of second place.
Pratt also has the top-six of Denver’s high-point games this season, as his three best outputs were a season-best 27 points against Brown Dec. 3rd after scoring 26 against Oregon in the season-opener.
Pratt is sixth in the Sun Belt with a 16.0 scoring average and just fell to fourth place in the conference in free throw shooting at 85 percent (66-of-79) after going 2-of-4 Thursday night.
denverpioneers.collegesports.com /sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/021001aaa.html   (4567 words)

  
 Fletcher Pratt obituary
Pratt turned to other fields, he won acceptance almost as readily.
Pratt attended Hobart College for one year and more than a dozen years later spent another two years at the University of Paris.
Pratt was a member of the staff of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, conducted by Middlebury College in Vermont.
www.sid-hill.com /write/pratt.htm   (590 words)

  
 Private Julius Fletcher Pratt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Julius Fletcher Pratt was born the son of DeMorris Pratt in New York, circa 1839.
Julius Pratt was very patriotic, for he reenlisted and transferred to Company F, 18th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment, October 20, 1864.
Julius Pratt kept in close contact with his old comrades in arms throughout the years.
www.geocities.com /capitolhill/senate/1861/pratt.html   (252 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Fletcher Pratt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession.
He is best known for his many collaborations with de Camp, the most famous of which is the humorous Harold Shea fantasy series which was eventually published in full as The Complete Compleat Enchanter (1989, ISBN 0-671-69809-5).
The Roaring Trumpet in Unknown, May 1940 Harold Shea was a name given to a series of stories by L. Sprague deCamp, Fletcher Pratt, and in some cases Christopher Stasheff.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fletcher-Pratt   (1043 words)

  
 Nine By Nine - The Fletcher Pratt, Music Downloads - Online
Review: Nine by Nine, the 2000 debut full-length from Detroit's the Fletcher Pratt, is a welcome addition to the pantheon of amazing power-pop albums.
The singing, guitar-playing team of George Dubber and Stephen Palmer know the proof is in the songwriting: Each song is given their upmost attention to detail, crafting short and sweet blasts of intelligent pop.
Not only is the Fletcher Pratt spot-on as musicians, they have the Beatles' gift of tunesmith and the balls-out, do-or-die attitude of early Elvis Costello.
musicstore.connect.com /album/704/The-Fletcher-Pratt/Nine-By-Nine/500000000000010022947.html   (291 words)

  
 The Fletcher Pratt - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897?1956) was a science fiction and fantasy writer; he was also well-known as a writer on naval history and on the American Civil...
Fletcher Pratt vital statistics, bibliography, and obituary data.
Download, listen and watch The Fletcher Pratt music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/the-fletcher-pratt/463586/main   (136 words)

  
 ASU Department of English : Ian Fletcher Lectures
Mary Louise Pratt holds the Olive H. Palmer Chair in Humanities as a professor in both the Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature Departments at Stanford University.
Her research and teaching encompasses linguistics, literature, history, and anthropology to explore issues such as feminism, postcolonial theory, sociolinguistics, and literary analysis.
Her courses span such diverse topics as Latin American literature since 1800, postcolonial criticism and theory, cultural studies, women and print culture in Latin America, literary theory, discourse and ideology; travel literature, literature and colonialism, and modern prose fiction.
www.asu.edu /english/events/fletcher/pratt.html   (177 words)

  
 L Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt: The Compleat Enchanter - an infinity plus review
Campbell was a man with a highly structured mind (a pretty odd bloody structure, some might maintain, but that's beside the point), and he was eager to see fantasy codified, so that it would have rules in the same way that the laws of science supposedly governed the genre he preferred, science fiction.
De Camp's and Pratt's pretence that they were applying just such a set (or series of sets) of rules to magic -- the underpinning of almost all genre fantasy -- was therefore right up the Cambellian street.
It's clear that de Camp and Pratt were aware of this, because all five of the tales here don't so much end -- in some kind of climax or resolution -- as just peter out.
www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/compleat.htm   (1046 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Originally a paleontologist, he was one of the founders of the German Rocket Society, and Dr. Wernher von Braun's first tutor in rocket research.
Fletcher Pratt of New York has written more than forty books on all sorts of subjects, from cooking to rockets.
Cornelius Ryan, the editor, was a correspondant with the Ninth Air Force and the U.S. Third Army in Europe during World War II and later was attached to General MacArthur's headquarters in Japan.
sun3.lib.uci.edu /~jsisson/author.htm   (426 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: The Fletcher Pratt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Although casual observers will understandably deem this Detroit quartet power pop, The Fletcher Pratt upheld its city’s gritty heritage by not being saccharine dinks.
After replacing bassist Joe Lavis with Patti Smith's son Jackson for some touring, The Fletcher Pratt called it quits in early 2002.
For collectors of such curios, the late Fletcher Pratt was the author of numerous short stories, books of historical fact and fantasy.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=the_fletcher_pratt   (202 words)

  
 Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews #22: De Camp, Pratt, and the Enchanter
It was one of those too-rare partnerships in which both authors' strengths combined to produce something different from the sum of their parts.
Pratt and de Camp fall somewhere between these extremes.
Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt collaborated on a number of other light fantasies, none of which were in the same class as the Enchanter tales.
www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/dani/022.htm   (914 words)

  
 The Independent Weekly: The Fletcher Pratt
Detroit is definitely still "Detroit Rock City" if you take the new release by hometown sons The Fletcher Pratt (named for the noted science fiction writer) as proof.
Nine By Nine, currently lauded by the underground "pop" press, promises to break The Fletcher Pratt out of the genre with the ferocity of a jungle cat.
The Fletcher Pratt, by virtue of their dual songwriters and eclectic influences, explore a wide range of material on Nine By Nine, from the frenzied, balls-to-the-wall garage rock of "Living in the House" to the new wave organ hooks of the power pop-esque "Spin Label."
www.indyweek.com /durham/2001-06-27/soundbite7.html   (2533 words)

  
 Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Fletcher Pratt
This is a brief discussion of Fletcher Pratt and, of course, of some books by Fletcher Pratt.
Just as with the author list itself, omission of a particular item may mean I didn't think highly enough of the omitted item, or it may simply mean that I have not yet sufficient familiarity with it.
My intent is no more than to give you a rough idea of what kinds of tales Pratt tells, how those tales are usually told, and what makes them and Pratt worthy; in sum, to help you rank Pratt (and the works by Pratt listed here) on your personal literary "to do" list.
greatsfandf.com /AUTHORS/FletcherPratt.php   (433 words)

  
 The Fletcher Pratt - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Psych-pop quartet the Fletcher Pratt split the difference between the garage rock scene that gripped their native Detroit at the start of the 21st century and the more ambitious psychedelic leanings of Elephant 6 bands the Lilys and Cotton Mather.
The combination works wonders, both adding more melodic and structural interest to primal three-chord rock and giving some much needed immediacy and heft to a style that can occasionally be a little too precious.
Taking their name from the noted science fiction author Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956), the Fletcher Pratt formed in Detroit in the early '90s around the partnership of singer/songwriters George Dubber and Stephen Palmer.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/704/The-Fletcher-Pratt/8582030.html   (197 words)

  
 Pratt's Rules For Naval Wargaming WWII Naval Miniatures Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There was also a 1976 edition - Fletcher Pratt's Naval War Game - Original Text plus Updated Material - published by ZandM Enterprises.
Try to get a copy of Pratt's Rules for Naval Wargaming - I have a copy, but it may be out of print.
If you know of any resources for this game, or if you have material you would like to make available to the Net, please let us know.
theminiaturespage.com /rules/ww2/pratt.html   (192 words)

  
 this is still the modern world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
And if indeed he wrote more of the songs he sings, he seems more willing to throw a wrench in the songwriting works: like most guitar-pop bands, The Fletcher Pratt are at their best when they play it least straight.
A moment of "Creep"-like guitar chank sets up a break into the chorus, which is goaded on by twin-channel compressed guitar stings.
If Vocalist No. 2 can develop his leads and the band color outside the lines of the arrangements a bit more, the Fletcher Pratt will be one of those bands that transcends the power-pop ghetto.
www.uwm.edu /~jenor/fletcherpratt.html   (226 words)

  
 Fletcher Pratt: Nine By Nine Aversion.com Review
Though there’s nothing anachronistic about the band’s songs, there are enough pop commonalties on this album to make it a certain shoo-in as one of the best bang-for-the buck albums of the year.
Though worship of the highbrow-pop aesthetic has dominated indie pop for the past few years, The Fletcher Pratt reverts to the strains of no-holds-barred good times.
Though the fundamentals of pop form the basis for the band’s sound, there’s still enough pure rock power throughout this record to avoid some of the more fey tendencies that frequently creep into the styles purveyed by masters of pop.
www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=512   (373 words)

  
 The Fletcher Pratt - Nine By Nine: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Nine By Nine [+] by The Fletcher Pratt [+]
Nine by Nine [+], the 2000 debut full-length from Detroit's the Fletcher Pratt [+], is a welcome addition to the pantheon of amazing power-pop albums.
Not only is the Fletcher Pratt [+] spot-on as musicians, they have the Beatles [+]' gift of tunesmith and the balls-out, do-or-die attitude of early Elvis Costello [+].
music.com /release/nine_by_nine/2   (394 words)

  
 Nine By Nine - The Fletcher Pratt - Song Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Nine by Nine, the 2000 debut full-length from Detroit's the Fletcher Pratt, is a welcome addition to the pantheon of amazing power-pop albums.
The singing, guitar-playing team of George Dubber and Stephen Palmer know the proof is in the songwriting: Each song is given their upmost attention to...
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www.mp3.com /albums/458822/summary.html   (633 words)

  
 The Fletcher Pratt: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Psych-pop quartet the Fletcher Pratt [+] split the difference between the garage rock scene that gripped their native Detroit at the start of the 21st century and the more ambitious psychedelic leanings of Elephant 6 bands the Lilys and Cotton Mather [+].
The combination works wonders, both adding more melodic and structural interest to primal three-chord rock and giving some much needed immediacy and heft to a style that can occasionally be a little too precious.
Taking their name from the noted science fiction author Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956), the Fletcher Pratt [+] formed in Detroit in the early '90s around the partnership of singer/songwriters George Dubber and Stephen Palmer.
music.com /group/the_fletcher_pratt/1   (288 words)

  
 Fantasy and Science Fiction - Curiosities
Fletcher Pratt's 1948 novel, The Well of the Unicorn deals with political turmoil in the land of Dalarna.
Intrigues and battles are interwoven with political discussions and reflections on the consequences of using magic (also a theme in Pratt's The Blue Star).
The Well of the Unicorn is anything but dry: Pratt's characters (and their sex lives) are very different from Tolkien's rather idealized world.
www.sfsite.com /fsf/1999/cur9912.htm   (383 words)

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