If you can communicate to me any memories of The Leader which may aid in understanding this most bewildering period of our history, I assure you that it will be appreciated by myself, by the authorities who wish the investigation made, and I dare to hope by posterity. I am, my dear general, (Et cetera.) Letter from General Johann von Steppberg (Retired) to Professor Albrecht Aigen, University of Brunn.

You who have read "The Mad Planet" by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and tiny Man is now in the process of becoming acclimated to the change. 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. You will follow this remarkable story with breathless interest.

"The Runaway Skyscraper" is a science fiction short story by Murray Leinster that first appeared in the February 22, 1919 issue of Argosy magazine. "The Runaway Skyscraper" concerns Arthur Chamberlain, an engineer who works in a midtown Manhattan office building called the Metropolitan Tower. When the sun suddenly begins moving backwards in the sky, setting rapidly in the east, he is the only one to realize what is actually happening: a flaw in the rock beneath the building has caused it to subside, but instead of moving in space, the building is falling backwards into the past. When the subsidence finally ends, the building is located several thousand years in the past, and its 2000-odd inhabitants find themselves stranded in pre-Columbian Manhattan. Chamberlain also realizes that the same seismic forces that caused the building to drop back into the past can also be used to return it to the present, but that doing so will require several weeks of intensive work by the building\'s inhabitants, and in the meantime they must concentrate on feeding themselves. Chamberlain convinces the president of a bank on the first floor that he can return them to the present, and together they are able to organize the other inhabitants into hunting and fishing parties. Two weeks later, Chamberlain is ready to implement his plan. He forces a jet of soapy water into an artesian well beneath the building, and this allows the pressure that has built up in the rock to be released. The building travels forward in time again, returning to the exact moment when it began to travel into the past.

Murray Leinster was the pen name of American SF writer William Fitzgerald Jenkins. Jenkins served in the US Army and the Committee of Public Information in World War I and the Office of War Information during World War II. Publishing his first story in 1916, he went on to publish fifteen hundred short stories and articles, as well as writing fourteen movie and hundreds of radio and television scripts. His work inspired the TV series Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel, and he won the Hugo, Retro-Hugo, and Liberty Awards. "Sand Doom," published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1946, is part of Leinster\'s "Colonial Survey" series. Bordman, a Colonial Survey officer, en route to the new world of Nosa II to certify it as open for visitation, and Aletha Redfeather, a representative of the Amerind Historical Society, find themselves stuck on the planet with a circular problem. They need repair parts -- but without them, they can\'t bring in the ship that carries the repair parts. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The little Med Ship came out of overdrive and the stars were strange and the Milky Way seemed unfamiliar. Which, of course, was because the Milky Way and the local Cepheid marker-stars were seen from an unaccustomed angle and a not-yet-commonplace pattern of varying magnitudes. But Calhoun grunted in satisfaction ... Written by Murray Leinster (a pseudonym of William Fitzgerald Jenkins\'s) This World Is Taboo was first published as Pariah Planet in Amazing Stories, July 1961, and is the second volume in the Med Services series. Leinster wrote more than 1500 stories and articles during his career and is credited with first using the concept of parallel universes in his fiction.

The Ambulance Made Two Trips is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Murray Leinster is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Murray Leinster then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

From the hilarious chaos of a man’s telephone feud with himself to the tender pathos of lovers reaching across the chasm of death…from a hair-raising discovery in a buried city to the chill horror of the end of time…these are tales to tickle the tired imagination as only Murray Leinster would have the audacity to tell them.In the new, never-before-published ROGUE STAR, you’ll meet a wanderer from the  weird world of antimatter and learn how to change  the course of destiny.In SAM, THIS IS YOU, you’ll peek into  the daffiest love triangle of all time, as poor Sam  tries to win his girl away from himself.And in DEAR CHARLES—no, that one  you’ll have to read for yourself.In fact, read them all…then trade in your TV set for a time-machine and take off for the middle of last week.

Science Fiction story originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, April 1953.

President O\'Hanrahan of the planetary government of Eire listened unhappily to his official guest. He had to, because Sean O\'Donohue was chairman of the Dail--of Eire on Earth--Committee on the Condition of the Planet Eire. He could cut off all support from the still-struggling colony if he chose. He was short and opinionated, he had sharp, gimlet eyes, he had bristling white hair that once had been red, and he was the grandfather of Moira O\'Donohue, who\'d traveled to Eire with him on a very uncomfortable spaceship. That last was a mark in his favor, but now he stood four-square upon the sagging porch of the presidential mansion of Eire, and laid down the law. "I\'ve been here three days." he told the president sternly, while his granddaughter looked sympathetic, "and I\'m of the opinion that there\'s been shenanigans goin\' on to keep this fine world from becoming\' what it was meant for--a place for the people of Eire on Earth to emigrate to when there was more of them than Erin has room for. Which is now!" "We\'ve had difficulties --" began the president uneasily. "This world should be ready!" snapped Sean O\'Donohue accusingly. "It should be waitin\' for the Caseys and Bradys and Fitzpatricks and other fine Erse people to move to and thrive on while the rest of the galaxy goes to pot with its new-fangled notions." Legends do, of course, get somewhat distorted in the passage of time. In the future, the passage across space to other planets may cause a slight modification here and there . . .

William Fitzgerald Jenkins is an obscure name in literary circles, and it certainly doesn’t seem appropriate for an author who wrote thousands of short stories in science fiction, alternate fantasy, and other types of “weird” fiction genres. Perhaps that’s why Jenkins chose a more eccentric pen name, Murray Leinster, to publish over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.Leinster is not as well known as the 20th century’s biggest names in the genre, like Lovecraft or Hitchcock, but he left a lasting mark on science-fiction. Leinster is still credited as the first to write stories about parallel universes, which had an influence on subsequent writers’ stories, including Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity. Incredibly, Leinster’s short story First Contact was even the subject of a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures’ Star Trek: First Contact movie, with Leinster’s heirs claiming copyright infringement. The courts threw out the heirs’ suit, noting that the phrase “first contact” had become so common in science-fiction circles that it could no longer be considered protected. Perhaps that’s the most fitting tribute of all to Leinster.  

Pretenders 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 option was unthinkable. The ruthless Dictator of Mekin had already conquered 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!

Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43 By Murray Leinster

Reach for the Stars: We now accept space travel as a reality, but what of a city in space, built on an ever suspended platform? When young Joe Kenmore came to the little desert town of Bootstrap to install pilot gyros in the top secret Space Platform project he hadn\'t bargained on sabotage or murder or love. But Joe soon learned that ruthless agents were determined to wreck the project.

Paperback original novel. Murray Leinster was a pen-name of Will F. Jenkins (1896-1975), a prolific writer who contributed to many genres. He won the Hugo Award in 1956 for his story, "Exploration Team."Paperback original novel. Murray Leinster was a pen-name of Will F. Jenkins (1896-1975), a prolific writer who contributed to many genres. He won the Hugo Award in 1956 for his story, "Exploration Team."

A Matter of Importance is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Murray Leinster is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Murray Leinster then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.