First Contacts


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First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster


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A collection of the trend-setting stories from "the Dean of Science Fiction" which opened and explored such topics as first contact with aliens, the Internet, transfers among parallel universes, and many more. "The best of [these stories] are remarkable inventions, providing a window on to science fiction's first Golden Age that demonstrates exactly what made it golden" - Kirkus Review




A Logic Named Joe


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Three complete novels, one of them a Hugo Award finalist, with a number of short stories.




Planets of Adventure


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Breathtaking Space Adventure by a Master of Interplanetary Science Fiction, Including a Hugo Award-Winner At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Murray Leinster was not only a very good writer, he was a pioneer. . . . The wondrous thing about his work is that those great, trend-setting stories read as fresh and timely today as they did all those years ago." ¾Frederik Pohl "The Dean of modern science fiction." ¾Time ". . . robust and adventurous." ¾The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction




Sidewise in Time


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Ten selected short stories from the master of pulp, Murray Leinster - pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, who's prolific career spanned the first six decades of the 20th Century. The Golden Age Masterwork of Sidewise in Time includes the Hugo Award-winning novella "Exploration Team". Full contents include: Sidewise in Time The Runaway Skyscraper The Mad Planet Politics Proxima Centauri First Contact A Logic Names Joe De Profundis If You Was a Moklin Exploration Team




Med Ship


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Murray Leinster


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Will F. Jenkins, known to science fiction fans by his penname Murray Leinster, was among the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. "The Dean of Science Fiction," as he was sometimes known, published more than 1,500 short stories and 100 books in a career spanning more than fifty years. This biography, written by his two youngest daughters, chronicles Murray Leinster's private and literary life from his first writings for The Smart Set and early pulp magazines such as Argosy, Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories, through the golden age of science fiction in the 1930s through the 1950s, to his death in 1975. Included as appendices are his famous 1946 story "A Logic Named Joe" and 1954 essay "To Build a Robot Brain."




Robots and Magic


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Robots and Magic collects a variety of science fiction and fantasy stories written by Grand Master Lester del Rey. Including the stories "Helen O'Loy," "To Avenge Man," and del Rey's last short story, "The Fairy Godmother," as well as 31 other stories, Robots and Magic offers a quarter million words of fiction. The collection is introduced by Terry Brooks. John Picacio created the cover art. Edited by Steven H Silver.




Sam, This Is You


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What if you could talk to the version of you who existed ten days ago, or the you who will exist ten days in the future? That's exactly what enterprising telephone lineman Sam Yoder figures out how to do in the surprisingly funny science-fiction story "Sam, This Is You." At first, he focuses on the money-making potential of his little scheme -- but before long, he runs into some unforeseen complications.




Silver Surfer


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For untold years Norrin Radd has surfed the galaxy, exploring the darkness between stars, witnessing the rise and fall of vast civilizations. Now his ride is about to come to an end. It starts with a small spot - a blemish that will spread until he is no more. Until then, the Silver Surfer would undertake his final voyage - to the one destination that has always eluded him. His journey starts where it began. Guest-starring the Fantastic Four! Collects Silver Surfer: Requeim (2007) #1-4.