The picture you clicked illustrated a story in Astounding Science Fiction around 1951. It was written by author Frederick Brown who was a grand master of highly entertaining SF.

His stories were highly acclaimed in their day. Recently published, “From These Ashes”, is a complete collection of his great many short SF stories.

More about this author can be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Brown

http://www.deboekenplank.nl/naslag/aut/b/brown_f/brown_f_bookcase.htm

http://www.hycyber.com/SF/brown_fredric.html

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