Leinster, Murray
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- Predicts the Internet in 1946!
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Logic Named Joe
Murray Leinster
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Three complete novels, one of them a Hugo Award finalist, with a number of short stories. The Pirates of Zan - When a young man is accused of being one of the Pirates of Zan and jailed unjustly, he is given a secret offer-in return for being permitted to "escape," he must shake up the establishment, which is getting set in its ways. He succeeds beyond anyone's wildest expectations, becoming not just a pirate, but the deadliest do-gooder in the galaxy. Gateway to Elsewhere - Suppose that in another dimension, the world of the Arabian Nights is real, including very powerful and very dangerous djinns, who are nothing like Aladdin's big blue pal. A man from our world wouldn't have a chance against them . . . or, would he? The Duplicators - A planet with a machine which can duplicate anything would be the wealthiest world in the galaxy, right? Wrong. And unless the hapless voyager who's trapped on the planet can find a solution to its problem, he isn't going to live to leave again. Plus three short stories, including "A Logic Named Joe," an uncannily prophetic story of home computers and the internet - written in 1946!</p>
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Pirates and Logics and Kangaroos.......2006-08-05
I should state at the outset that I am an unabashed Murray Leinster fan, so I am likely to look with a measure of approval on _any_ venture intended to keep his stories and novels in print. _A Logic Named Joe_ (2004) is an omnibus consisting of three short stories and three novels. The short stories are: "The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator" (_Astounding_, 1935), "A Logic Named Joe" (_Astounding_, 1946), and "Dear Charles" (_Fantastic_, 1953). The novels are: _Gateway to Elsewhere_ (originally "Journey to Barkut," _Startling_, 1952), _The Pirates of Zan_ (originally "The Pirates of Ersatz," _Astounding_, 1959), and _The Duplicators_ (originally "Lord of the Uffts," _Worlds of Tomorrow_, 1964).
Let us take the novels first. Why should you want to read them? To be sure, none of them are classics. But they are all... well, _fun_. _Gateway to Elsewhere_ is the story of the consciencious young man who learns to live a little and who travels from the world of Baghdad-on-the-Hudson to the Baghdad of the Arabian Nights. _The Pirates of Zan_ is a delightful reworking of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta into a space opera format, and is easily the best of the three. _The Duplicators_ is a gentle spoof of communist pigs and southern aristocrats. It raises some problems about the economic and social effects of matter duplication that are not really solved by the end of the novel. But then, I'm not sure that they could be solved.
The short stories, like the novels, all have a light touch. "Dear Charles" is a slight but clever account of the distant ancestor who snakes the girl of his not-too-bright descendant. The other two stories are much more substantial. "The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator" is a marvelous piece of slapstick comedy involving time travel, matter duplication, and demented kangaroos. And "A Logic Named Joe" is a computer story written before computers were known-- before the word "computer" was even a part of our language. Read it and see how well Leinster managed to predict this technology-- and the problems that it would bring.
This is a wonderful book for hammock reading or for a lazy day or for a time when you want a good excuse to laugh. And it is a reminder of what the Dean of Science Fiction could do when he was working with all cylinders going.
Excellent.......2005-07-12
I recommend this book highly for those new to SIFI books. The sroties are witty and fresh. They often reminded me of other books but they are newer and no doubt were influenced by this one. This is a really terrific book.
Predicts the Internet in 1946!.......2005-06-30
This collection of short stories represents a sampling of short fiction that still stands up today. I am very glad that the publisher; Baen Books has the rights to publish some of these older works. There is a lot of good material out there only it's never recognized or buried never to be seen again. We can thank Jim Baen for having the vision of a good science fiction publisher. I can sum up this collection by saying it's very thought provoking and should be read by science fiction readers who like intriguing work.
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- Incredible SCI-FI!
- Essential Murray Leinster--Essential Reading for Sci-Fi Fans
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First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster
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A collection of the trend-setting stories of "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. This collection contains two stories not previously published, and it contains an introduction by Hal Clement, with cover art by Hannibal King.
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Incredible SCI-FI!.......2002-10-08
These are some of the best sci-fi short stories I have read. Yes, the stories are dated, but the imagination, mystery and wonder are awesome. The Castaway is one of the finest. I recommend Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster as well, if you can find it. Happy reading!!!
Essential Murray Leinster--Essential Reading for Sci-Fi Fans.......1999-11-22
I read this in less than a week. My 'First Contact' with Murray Leinster floored me. The style of Leinster's writing is provacative; his diction, use of tone tone and image, are as advanced as any literary writer in any field. There isn't one weak story in this book! The stories, though dating as far back as the thirties, hold up as well as any modern work I can think of. Especially interesting is 'Plague on Kryder II,' which describes a disease that affects one's immune system and causes one to get disease after disease. It was almost as if he had heard about AIDS in 1964. I'm so impressed that I went right out and bought every book I could find by Leinster and am in the process of reading them right now. You wont't be disappointed.
A golden-age master of Science Fiction returns.......1999-02-10
Murray Leinster was very hot in the world of science fiction -- several decades ago. As the years wore on, he was largely forgotten, except for one story of his, "First Contact." "First Contact" has appeared in numerous "Best of" collections and won a "Retro-Hugo" (a Hugo handed out for work in a year when there were no Hugos, 1946). Now you can have "First Contact" (I'm not the only one who thinks it's the best first contact story ever.) along with 23 other great (some are classic) tales from S.F.'s golden age. You'll be suprised at how well these hold up. Plus this book is a real treat. It's on acid-free paper, and it's a well-bound, solid hardcover.
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- Great book, with lots of interesting stories!
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Great book, with lots of interesting stories!.......2005-05-16
Murray Leinster was the pen name of American author William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-1975), a prodigious author of fiction and non-fiction. He is rightly considered one of the fathers of science fiction; with his story "The Runaway Skyscraper" appearing in 1919! This book was published in 2003, and is a combination of two of Jenkins' 1954 book: The Forgotten Planet, and Planets of Explorer.
The Forgotten Planet tells the tale of a world whose terraforming was interrupted, and allowed to evolve into a veritable hell of a world. When a space-liner crashes on the world, the human inhabitants have to survive in a world gone mad. This is an exciting a gripping story!
The Planet Explorer is actually a collection of nine sci-fi short stories. Each of the exciting stories takes place on a fascinating world, where a desperate crisis must be dealt with. Unlike most short story collections, all of these stories are great, not a clinker in the groups
Overall, I found this to be a great book, with lots of interesting stories to read. Mr. Jenkins was indeed a great science fiction author, whose works should be considered classics in the genre. I loved this book, and give it my highest recommendations!
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TIME TUNNEL
Murray Leinster
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THE PUBLIC ABRUPTLY ceased to be interested in news of the signals. Rather, it suddenly wanted to stop thinking about them. The public was scared. Throughout all human history, the most horrifying of all ideas has been the idea of something which was as intelligent as a man, but wasn't human.
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THE PUBLIC ABRUPTLY ceased to be interested in news of the signals. Rather, it suddenly wanted to stop thinking about them. The public was scared. Throughout all human history, the most horrifying of all ideas has been the idea of something which was as intelligent as a man, but wasn't human.
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Great Combat SF.......1999-02-08
This book contains short stories from some of the greatest minds in SF, Including a Dorsi novela that appears no where else. Quite simply a must for all warriors of the future.
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Timeslip! (Time Tunnel)
Murray Leinster
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