Between 1956 and 1992, under the name Grendel Briarton (an anagram of his real name), Reginald Bretnor wrote 122 very short sci-fi stories about Ferdinand Feghoot, a time-traveling, galaxy-hopping emissary from the Society for the Aesthetic Rearrangement of History. Using a device known only as )(, Feghoot visits and solves the problems of historical figures and intelligent beings on other worlds. Each story is an elaborate setup for an awesome/awful...