A Collection by Murray Leinster
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Overview: Murray Leinster was a prolific and outstanding writer of Science fiction. He was born William Fitzgerald Jenkins on June 16, 1896 in Norfolk, Virginia and finished his formal education at the age of 13. With the loss of his father’s job and subsequent downturn in the family’s fortunes, Leinster would not be able to pursue the career in chemistry that he had longed for. But he would go on to another significant achievement – publishing more than 1,500 short stories, novellas, and novels in his lifetime. As well as science fiction, Leinster wrote love stories, murder mysteries, adventure stories, westerns, fantasy, television and film scripts, and mainstream fiction. Leinster wrote variously over the years as Will F. Jenkins (mostly for mainstream magazines such as Colliers or The Saturday Evening Post), Murray Leinster (mostly for sci-fi), William F. Jenkins, William Fitzgerald, and even as Louisa Carter Lee for romance novels and potboilers. Leinster was definitely a renaissance man of words and ideas. But he is remembered for his remarkable prescience and vision in the sci-fi genre, especially around innovations in science and communications technologies.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
A Matter of Importance (1959)
In a distant future, humans have overtaken much of the universe and have banished their enemies to the far corners of their territory. A planet long thought to be uninhabited is suspected of being a hub for rebel activities. Will the small police force be able to circumvent a potentially disastrous conflict?
Adventures in the Fifth-Dimension
Includes the Fifth-Dimension Catapult and the Fifth Dimension Tube
When Professor Denham and his daughter are marooned in the fifth-dimension, it is up to playboy mathematician Tommy Reeves to rescue them. But to do this he not only must recreate the professor’s invention, the fifth-dimension catapult, he must also battle not only monsters and the Ragged Men in the fifth dimension but also gangsters in his own!
Bud Gregory Omnibus (ed. Jim3692)
Contents:
THE GREGORY CIRCLE – Book 01
THE NAMELESS SOMETHING – Book 02
THE DEADLY DUST Book 03
THE SEVEN TEMPORARY MOONS – Book 04
Checkpoint Lambda (1966)
As soon as he arrived to take over his command, Scott knew that something was wrong on Checkpoint Lambda. Scott realized that not only his life, but the existence of the Lambda depended upon his finding out what was wrong . . . for the charts indicated that it was headed on a collision course, and would be totally destroyed unless immediate measures were taken. But would he be able to act in time?
Colonial Survey aka The Planet Explorer (1956)
Centuries, eons from now the peculiar, fantastic, astounding mind if man will conquer strange new worlds and probe the meaning of the central core of infinity with instruments of incredible scientific precision! In the far-off era when man will defy gravity, space, time – to explore the universe and make immensity his own!
Gateway to Elsewhere (1954)
Tony Gregg was just an ordinary everyday American until the day he came into possession of an old Barkut coin. He knew it was more than just a collector”s curio because there was no such place on any map of Earth, past or present. He learned then that it could be used as a key – a key to a GATEWAY TO ELSEWHERE. That was the beginning of one of the most fabulous and fantastic adventures that ever befell a young man looking for excitement. For Gregg plunged forthwith into a fourth-dimensional world of the Arabian Nights, where the djinns of Aladdin”s Lamp were rampaging realities, and a lovely princess was waiting to be rescued!
Get Off My World! SSC (1966)
PLANET OF SAND: A world literally bald, completely covered by sand and devoid of life – or so the stranded spaceman thought until he saw the huge menacing girders whose origin and purpose he could not begin to fathom. White SPOT: A gold locket containing a picture of a girl, found in millennia-old ruins on a planet some hundreds of light-years from Earth, threatens the existence of the entire human race. Second LANDING: A lost space team lands on a deserted planet, entirely unprepared for the strange world”s one citizen; a great white amoeboid monster, hiding in wait to wreak its fury on any intruders.
Invaders of Space (1964)
Things were quiet that night in the space port. Then the ”Theban” arrived without warning, bringing with it a surly crew, led by a blustering captain, Larson… The ”Theban” was old, propelled by a totally obsolescent interplanetary drive. The only way Larson could get it off the ground was to kidnap the young engineer, Horn, who he hoped could at least manage to keep the ship in flight until it reached its final rendezvous. Their destination was the spaceship ”Danae” – a ship loaded with millions in space credit notes. If Horn wanted to save the ”Danae” from the onslaughts of the Space Invaders, he had his work cut out for him…
Juju (1919)
From the juju house the witch doctor emerged, bedaubed with colored earths and bright ashes. The drums renewed their frantic, resounding thunder. The torchbearers capered more actively, and yelled more excitedly. The drumming had gone on all day and its hypnotic effect had culminated in a species of ecstasy in which the blacks yelled and capered, and capered and yelled, without any clear notion of why or what they yelled.
Long Ago, Far Away (1959)
The peculiar visitors from outer space landed in the Antarctic. Brad Soames, scientist at a US Antarctic base and Gail Haynes, a visiting reporter, discover the spacecraft. Why did these four children come to earth? What mysterious dread might they bring upon our planet? The media reports right over the world deliver the brief, frightening announcement: These children from another time, another planet are telepaths, meaning that they have the ability to read human minds. People on earth start to fear them. The leaders of the strongest nations are grim with the knowledge that all military secrets will most probably be revealed to the world…
Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43 (1931)
Written before the outbreak of World War II, this remarkable story imagines a military conflict in which a weapon of unprecedented power and destructiveness is unleashed — but this time, it’s an enemy of the U.S. that has the upper hand. With entire cities swept off the map in a matter of seconds, will the country be able to fight back?
Nightmare Planet (The Forgotten Planet 01) (1953)
A spaceship lands on a seemingly uninhabited planet that turns out to be the vestiges of a grotesque science experiment gone horribly awry. Will the crew members be able to survive in this hostile territory?
Operation Terror (1962)
The radar-complex had picked up the strange object in space just as it neared the earth”s surface. It was described as "an object of considerable size." The impact of its landing at Boulder Lake Park, Colorado, was felt on every seismograph in the world. Then the first reports began to trickle in: there were "creatures" on board? Creatures who soon left their ship and began exploring the area …Where was the ship from, and what was the quest of the strange visitors? These visitors who were armed with a terrifying paralysis ray that blinded its victims, filling their nostrils with a reptilian odor of the jungle? Only one man in the Boulder Lake Park area could hope to solve the mystery of the "Aliens" who had come to call on earth …
Operation: Outer Space (1954)
Jed Cochrane tried to be cynical as the helicab hummed softly through the night over the city. The cab flew at two thousand feet, where lighted buildings seemed to soar toward it from the canyons which were streets. There were lights and people everywhere, and Cochrane sardonically reminded himself that he was no better than anybody else, only he’d been trying to keep from realizing it. He looked down at the trees and shrubbery on the roof-tops, and at a dance that was going on atop one of the tallest buildings. All roofs were recreation-spaces nowadays. They were the only spaces available. When you looked down at a city like this, you had cynical thoughts. Fourteen million people in this city. Ten million in that. Eight in another and ten in another still, and twelve million in yet another … Big cities. Swarming millions of people, all desperately anxious—so Cochrane realized bitterly—all desperately anxious about their jobs and keeping them."Even as me and I," said Cochrane harshly to himself. "Sure! I’m shaking in my shoes right along with the rest of them!"But it hurt to realize that he’d been kidding himself. He’d thought he was important. Important, at least, to the advertising firm of Kursten, Kasten, Hopkins and Fallowe. But right now he was on the way—like a common legman—to take the moon-rocket to Lunar City, and he’d been informed of it just thirty minutes ago. Then he’d been told casually to get to the rocket-port right away. His secretary and two technical men and a writer were taking the same rocket. He’d get his instructions from Dr. William Holden on the way….
Sand Doom and Other Tales of Adventure (2008) SSC
Contents:
SAND DOOM
ATMOSPHERE
Attention Saint Patrick
THE LEADER
THE WAILING ASTEROID
Sidewise in Time (1934)
Murray Leinster’s story "Sidewise in Time" (1934), showing different parts of the Earth somehow occupied by different parallel universes
Space Captain (1966)
SPACE CAPTAIN follows the interstellar journey of space buccaneer Captain Trent as he chases down a band of opportunistic space pirates.
Talents, Incorporated (1962)
Charlatans or Prophets? At best, the tiny Kandarian Air Fleet would fight until its last ship was blown into infinity. At worst, it would be annihilated without a chance. To young Captain Bors, either course was unthinkable.
The ruthless Dictator of Mekin had already subjugated twenty-two helpless planets. Now he wanted Kandar’s unconditional surrender, or his vastly superior forces would blast it out of existence.
It took a lot of guts, and the hope that is frequently born of despair, for a military man like Bors to throw in his lot with Talents, Incorporated, an untried, unscientific organization. Through peculiar gifts of extra-sensory perception, its personnel could, their leader insisted, out-think and out-guess even the most deadly dictator in the history of mankind. Could it? It just might.
And it just might not. . . . But there was absolutely nothing to lose, and a free world (and a beautiful girl) to win. Captain Bors made his decision, and the loaded die was cast!
The Aliens (1959) SS
The human race was expanding through the galaxy… and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet… war is inevitable. Or is it…?
The Best of Murray Leinster (Corgi 1976)
A relatively small part of Murray Leinster’s total output was in the field of SF. Nevertheless his stories in this field are easily the best remembered. This collection brings together a selection of some of his lesser-known SF work, written in the decade immediately following the end of the Second World War. Together they demonstrate the talent that made Murray Leinster so deservedly popular.
The Black Galaxy (1954)
When Stellaris, the first human interstellar ship, unexpectedly hurtles off the earth, it takes the ship”s designer, Rob Cantrell, his girlfriend and a skeleton crew with it into the furthest reaches of space. If only that was their biggest problem! With no star maps, killer aliens on their tail and a ship that was only half finished, their journey home is going to be quite the challenge!
The Fifth-Demension Tube (1933) SS
By way of Professor Denham’s Tube, Tommy and Evelyn invade the inimical Fifth-Dimensional world of golden cities and tree-fern jungles and Ragged Men.
The Greks Bring Gifts (1964)
They came to Earth in their space ship, bearing fabulous gifts – such as machines that did any day job automatically, and fertilizer that made plants shoot up overnight. But they presented their gifts with contempt, and with a look in their eyes that made people feel "creepy".Still, because of the brave new world they promised, they Greks could be forgiven anything – until they left and people discovered the machines were breaking down. Then their only choice was to beg the Greks to come back, on their own terms. And they knew the terms would be hard…
The Invaders (2010)
It started in Greece on the day after tomorrow. Before the last act raced to a close, Coburn was buried to his ears in assorted adventures, including a revolution and an invasion from outer space! We’re not given to throwing around the word "epic" lightly, but here is one! Swashbuckling action, a great many vivid characters, and a weird mystery-all spun for you by one of the master story-tellers of our time.
The Journey: Ten Uncollected Stories (ed. Tom’s eBooks, May 2021)
Content:
Introduction
The Mole Pirate, (na) Astounding Nov. 1934
The Wabbler, (ss) Astounding Oct. 1942
Plague, (nv) Astounding Feb. 1944
Incident on Calypso, (ss) Startling Stories Fall 1945
From Beyond the Stars, (ss) Thrilling Wonder Stories June 1947 {as by “Will F. Jenkins”}
The Lost Race, (nv) Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1949 this story was Leinster’s choice for inclusion in My Best Science Fiction Story, ed. Leo Margulies & Oscar J. Friend, Merlin Press Nov. 1949
Historical Note, (ss) Astounding Feb. 1951
The Journey, (ss) Star Science Fiction Stories, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine Feb. 1953
Imbalance, (ss) Fantastic Dec. 1962
Manners and Customs of the Thrid, (ss) If Sep. 1963
The Last Spaceship (1949)
Kim Rendall will not yield to the tyranny of the power-mad rulers of Alpin III. Branded an outlaw, he is in danger of psychological torure worse than death from the Disciplinary Circuit, which keeps the masses in check.
His one hope lies in the Starshine, an outmoded spaceship. In a world where teleportation is the norm, no one travels by interstellar vessel anymore. Rendall plans to use the Starshine to save his girlfriend and himself — and possibly his entire planet!
The Mad Planet (The Forgotten Planet 02) (1920)
The Mad Planet’ by Murray Leinster was the first global warming story ever written. Set hundreds of years in the future, Earth has gone mad, CO2 levels have risen across the globe causing a rise in temperature, and human beings have descended to savagery. The change in climate has wreaked havoc with the environment giving rise to new predators and challenges for man. Burl has spent his entire life one step away from oblivion, he’s heard the stories about the former greatness of his race, and yearns for a return to that time.
The Murder of the USA (1946) aka Destroy the U.S.A (ed. Jerry eBooks, 2016)
Here is an entirely new kind of murder mystery—with a whole nation as the victim. Imagine a sudden mysterious atomic attack on the United States. Imagine one third of the nation destroyed in forty minutes. Imagine being unable to determine the location of the enemy.
In a series of thrilling climaxes, Sam Burton and his cohorts in Burrow 89, operating under imminent danger of being blown to bits, manage to discover the murderer, and end the holocaust. Will F. Jenkins has here turned his pen to the problem of atomic war, has presented the probable defenses, and at the same time has created one of the most dramatic and exciting detective yarns ever written.
The Other Side of Nowhere (1964)
The RIM STAR seemed to be an ordinary enough spaceship bound for the planet Handel on a routine mission. Then young Braden, a merchant-space officer, discovered that there was something all wrong about the RIM STAR . . . The captain was wrong, the crew mutinous, and there was even something going on with the passengers. The ship was in deadly danger . . .For centuries space travelers had dreaded a place they called the Other Side of Nowhere – a place in the universe where up was down, where right was wrong, and where all direction was lost . . .To save the RIM STAR Braden had to bring the ship to that place of nightmare. . .
The Pirates of Zan (1959) aka The Pirates of Ersatz
Because Bron Hoddan was a serious electronics engineer, he didn”t want any part of his particular planetary heritage. For he was from Zan – and Zan”s only occupation was spaceship piracy! So Bron went to Walden, the most civilized planet of them all. His first step to making himself a good reputation was to invent a machine that would save the government millions. But when instead he was seized and jailed as the most unspeakable criminal in Walden”s history, he realized that there was only one way open to remedy this "civilized" disaster. And that was by putting into use some of Zan”s old-fashioned buccaneering techniques!
The Planet Explorer (1956) aka Colonial Survey
Centuries, eons from now the peculiar, fantastic, astounding MIND OF MAN will conquer strange, new worlds, presently beyond the reaches of imagination-and probe the meaning of the central core of infinity with instruments of incredible scientific precision! YOUR ARE THERE!- In the far-off era when man will defy gravity, space, time-to explore the UNIVERSE and make immensity his own!
The Red Dust (The Forgotten Planet 03) (1921)
The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and poor puny Man is still in the process of becoming acclimated to the change even after 30,000 years. We again meet our hero Burl, but this time a far greater danger menaces the human race. The huge insects are still in evidence, but the terror they inspire is as nothing compared to the deadly Red Dust.
The Runaway Skyscraper (1919)
Take an unexpected trip into the past in this gem of golden-era science fiction from Murray Leinster. On what appears to be an ordinary workday, Arthur Chamberlain, a successful engineer based in Manhattan, notices that the sun appears to be traveling backwards in the sky. Chamberlain is the only person who is able to discern the truth of the situation. Can he devise a solution to reverse it in time to save himself and thousands of his coworkers?
Things Pass By: Five Uncollected Novellas from the Pages of Thrilling Wonder Stories (ed. Tom’s eBooks, July 2021)
Content:
Introduction
The Strange Case of Murray Leinster, Sam Moskowitz, (ar) Amazing Dec. 1961
Things Pass By, (na) Thrilling Wonder Stories Summer 1945 sequel to "The Eternal Now," Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1944
The Ghost Planet, (na) Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 1948
Fury from Lilliput, (na) Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug. 1949 {aka “The Unknown”}
The Gadget Had a Ghost, (na) Thrilling Wonder Stories June 1952
The Amateur Alchemist, (na) Thrilling Wonder Stories Fall 1954
Three Startling Novelas (ed. Tom’s eBooks, May 2021)
Content:
Introduction
The Laws of Chance, (na) Startling Stories March 1947 as Fight for Life, Crestwood 1949
The Other World, (na) Startling Stories Nov. 1949
Overdrive, (nv) Startling Stories Jan. 1953
Tommy Reames in the Fifth Dimension (ed. Tom’s eBooks, May 2021)
A collection featuring the two "Tommy Reames" novellas, with a bonus story, "The Machine That Saved the World."
Introduction
The Fifth Dimension Catapult [*Tommy Reames], (na) Astounding Jan. 1931
The Fifth Dimension Tube [*Tommy Reames], (na) Astounding Jan. 1933
Bonus Story:
The Machine That Saved the World, (nv) Amazing Dec. 1957
Two Complete Novels (ed. Jerry eBooks, 2013)
Long Ago, Far Away
The ship from nowhere had a crew of children. And Soames, sometimes thought he was the only one who realized they were carriers of man’s salvation!
Planet of Dread
Moran cut apart the yard-long monstrosity with a slash of flame. The thing presumably died, but it continued to writhe senselessly. He turned to see other horrors crawling toward him.
Then he knew he was being marooned on a planet of endless terrors.
White Spot (1955)
The planet did not look promising, but they had no choice. When a ship’s drive blows between star systems, it has to be fixed. If metal parts must be recast and machined, and burned-out wiring has to be pieced together and insulated by hand, the job takes literally months. And if, then, getting home is a matter of more months of journeying with a drive that still limps, while coughing and cutting off for seconds or until it is tinkered with — why, the traveler has to find some way to renew his food supply. Even on an alien planet. Even on an alien planet with intelligent life…
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