The Second Murray Leinster MEGAPACK®: 18 Classic Stories

Murray Leinster Megapacks #2

by Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster (1896-1975) enjoyed a reputation as a top pulp fiction writer from the 1920s through the 1960s, publishing dozens of novels and more than a thousand short stories -- and not just in the science fiction field, as this collection shows. However, his greatest fame came from SF, and the Sidewise Award (for best alternate history work) is named after his story, "Sidewise in Time." Included in this volume PLANET OF DREAD
THE WAILING ASTEROID
THE FORGOTTEN PLANET
ATTENTION SAINT PATRICK
NIGHTMARE PLANET
CREATURES OF THE ABYSS
A MATTER OF IMPORTANCE
THE PIRATES OF ERSATZ
MORALE
MURDER MADNESS
THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER
THE GALLERY GODS
THE STREET OF MAGNIFICENT DREAMS
NERVE
STORIES OF THE HUNGRY COUNTRY
GROOVES
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW
EVIDENCE

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Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories

Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2012

About the author

see also:
Will F. Jenkins
William Fitzgerald Jenkins

Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

An author whose career spanned the first six decades of the 20th Century. From mystery and adventure stories in the earliest years to science fiction in his later years, he worked steadily and at a highly professional level of craftsmanship longer than most writers of his generation. He won a Hugo Award in 1956 for his novelet “Exploration Team,” and in 1995 the Sidewise Award for Alternate History took its name from his classic story, “Sidewise in Time.” His last original work appeared in 1967.

Reviews

[Durandana · Rating 2 out of 5]

2/5 - Evidence
2/5 - Murder Madness
3/5 - The Extra Intelligence
3/5 - The Eternal Now
3/5 - The Ethical Equations
3/5 - The Plants
1/5 - Friends
2/5 - The Laws of Chance
2/5 - The Day of the Deepies
3/5 - Propagandist
2/5 - West Wind
2/5 - Planet of Sand
2/5 - The Night Before the End of the World
2/5 - This Star Shall be Free
2/5 - Cure for a Ylith
2/5 - Keyhole
3/5 - The Middle of the Week After Next
3/5 - Overdrive
3/5 - The Wailing Asteroid
3/5 - Attention Saint Patrick

[Ian Murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

The old master writer from the past far away

[Bill Ramsell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classics from the early days of the pulps. Fun stuff.

[Anne Patkau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Leinster hides outdated values, physics of the times onto "now" of stories.

[Nicholas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good ideas, suffers from too much Gotta Get Married. The best stories are the very few with no women in them. I understand he was a product of his time, but the love story aspect in most of the tales seemed forced, like perhaps he didn't actually want to include them but was required to. Still, an interesting look at SF from back when.

One exception was Murder Madness. In this story, Gotta Get Married fights a running battle with Gotta Crash the Plane. Seriously. It should have been titled Plane Crasher McCrash Crashes Planes.