Martians and Madness: The Complete SF Novels of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown, Ben Yalow (Editor), Philip Klass (Introduction); 2002. Hardcover.

One of the best pulp writers, Brown (1906-72) wrote much science fiction and more mysteries. He wrote just five science fiction novels and the five as well as two stories he combined to make up one of the novels are included in Martians and Madness, The Complete SF Novels of Fredric Brown, a companion to From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown (2001). The classics are What Mad Universe (1949), an alternate-reality romp featuring some great scary scenes and lots of laughs, and Martians, Go Home (1955), in which the little green men are all lethal wisecrackers. Also included are Rogue in Space (1957), in which the disillusioned tough-guy hero gets his own world, The Mind Thing (1961), a deliciously low-key variation on the alien-invasion theme,and The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953).