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First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473227378

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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

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 9780743499101

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A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster Pdf

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

Planets of Adventure

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618244024

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Planets of Adventure by Murray Leinster Pdf

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

Murray Leinster

Author : Billee J. Stallings,Jo-an J. Evans
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786487158

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Murray Leinster by Billee J. Stallings,Jo-an J. Evans Pdf

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."

Med Ship

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618243430

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Med Ship by Murray Leinster Pdf

WHO YA GONNA CALL MED SERVICE! Scattered through the galaxy are thousands of worlds colonized by humans. Many have native microbes dangerous to the human immigrants. Others have diseases brought to them accidentally¾or on purpose¾by visiting ships. When millions of lives are threatened, it's a job for the Interstellar Medical Service, and a Med Ship is sent to solve the problem. Calhoun is the best the Med Service has, and hard experience has taught him that often the major obstacle to curing the sick is ... the sick. And removing that kind of obstacle may take very strong medicine. To find a cure for a disease, Calhoun has the help of his small animal companion Murgatroyd, a formal¾a species with the most powerful immune system in the galaxy. But to find a cure for hysteria, prejudice, crime, and even war is much more complicated, requiring considerable ingenuity. Fortunately, ingenuity is something that Calhoun has in good supply... At the publisher's request, this title is sold withour DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Murray Leinster was not only a very good writer, he was a pioneer. He invented the field of parallel-universe stories with his "Sidewise in Time," and his "First Contact" set the pattern for all the stories that followed of¾well¾of first contact with alien civilizations. 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

Space Platform

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547336075

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Space Platform by Murray Leinster Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Space Platform" by Murray Leinster. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Science Fiction and Futurism

Author : Ace G. Pilkington
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476629551

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Science Fiction and Futurism by Ace G. Pilkington Pdf

Science and science fiction have become inseparable--with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book lays out that relationship and its all-but-magical terms and ideas. Those who think seriously about the future are changing the world, reshaping how we speak and how we think. This book fully covers the terms that collected, clarified and crystallized the futurists' ideas, sometimes showing them off, sometimes slowing them down, and sometimes propelling them to fame and making them the common currency of our culture. The many entries in this encyclopedic work offer a guided tour of the vast territories occupied by science fiction and futurism. In his Foreword, David Brin says, "Provocative and enticing? Filled with 'huh!' moments and leads to great stories? That describes this volume."

Off the Main Sequence

Author : Tom Easton
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809512058

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Off the Main Sequence by Tom Easton Pdf

Tom Easton has served as the monthly book review columnist for Analog Science Fiction for almost three decades, having contributed during that span many hundreds of columns and over a million words of penetrating criticism on the best literature that science fiction has to offer. His reviews have been celebrated for their wit, humor, readability, knowledge, and incisiveness. His love of literature, particularly fantastic literature, is everywhere evident in his essays. Easton has ever been willing to cover small presses, obscure authors, and unusual publications, being the only major critic in the field to do so on a regular basis. He seems to delight in finding the rare gem among the backwaters of the publishing field. "A reviewer's job," he says, "is not to judge books for the ages, but to tell readers enough about a book to give them some idea of whether they would enjoy it." And this he does admirably, whether he's discussing the works of the great writers in the field, or touching upon the least amongst them. This companion volume to "Periodic Stars" (Borgo/Wildside) collects another 250 of Easton's best reviews from the last fifteen years of "The Reference Library." No one does it better, and no other guide provides such lengthy or discerning commentary on the best SF works of recent times. Complete with Introduction and detailed Index.

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810878846

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Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature by M. Keith Booker Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature is a useful reference to the broad and burgeoning field of science fiction literature. Science fiction literature has gained immensely in critical respect and attention, while maintaining a broad readership. However, despite the fact that it is a rapidly changing field, contemporary science fiction literature also maintains a strong sense of its connections to science fiction of the past, which makes a historical reference of this sort particularly valuable as a tool for understanding science fiction literature as it now exists and as it has evolved over the years. The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature covers the history of science fiction in literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries including significant people; themes; critical issues; and the most significant genres that have formed science fiction literature. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this subject.

The Good Old Stuff

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466859500

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The Good Old Stuff by Gardner Dozois Pdf

Nineteen-ninety-nine looms near and yet the stars are still far away . . . but this anthology brings them closer with more than a dozen of the best SF adventure stories ever written. Among the gems collected here are "The New Prime," by Jack Vance, " Fritz Leiber's "Moon Duel," and "The Sky People," by Poul Anderson, along with masterpieces by less-familiar names such as Murray Leinster and James H. Schmitz. With more than a dozen stories (written between 1940 and 1970) from greats such as Brian W. Aldiss, Leigh Brackett, L. Sprague de Camp, and A. E. van Vogt, this anthology ranges throughout our galaxy and into the stars. Whether you're revisiting past adventures or discovering these stories for the first time, you're sure to thrill to these wonderful adventures across the vast expanse of space.

Space Oddities

Author : Marie Lathers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441148209

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Space Oddities by Marie Lathers Pdf

Space Oddities examines the representation of women in outer space films from 1960 to 2000, with an emphasis on films in which women are either denied or given the role of astronaut. Marie Lathers traces an evolution in this representation from women as aliens and/or "assistant" astronauts, to women as astronaut wives, to women as astronauts themselves. Many popular films from the era are considered, as are earlier films (from Aelita Queen of Mars to Devil Girl From Mars) and historical records, literary fiction, and television shows (especially I Dream of Jeannie). Early 1960s attempts by women pilots to enter the Space Race are considered as is the media drama surrounding the death of Christa McAuliffe. In addition to its insightful film scholarship, this is an important addition to current reassessments of the Space Race. By applying insights from contemporary gender, race, and species theories to popular imaginings of women in space, the status of the Space Race as a cultural construct that reproduces and/or warps terrestrial gender structures is revealed.

The Duplicators

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473227224

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Link Denham needs a job. Any job. When he's offered the position of navigator on board the leaky, rickety Glamorgan, he takes it without asking too many questions. The destination? A planet that has barely been contacted in two hundred years, in a dystopic system, isolated from the rest of the galaxy. What he thought would be a simple job quickly turns into something far more complicated, as he finds himself embroiled in a complex web of treachery, double-crossing and alien politics. And what of this infamous machine the natives have, which can replicate anything put inside . . . ? Murray Leinster was a prolific figure in pulp fiction, writing short stories and novels across many genres. The Duplicators is a science fiction romp in his characteristic style, and a wonderful example of 1960s pulp science fiction.

A History of Virginia Literature

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107057777

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This History explores the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of Jamestown to the twenty-first century.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312264741

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including: William Barton * Rob Chilson * Tony Daniel * Cory Doctorow * Jim Grimsley * Gwyneth Jones * Chris Lawson * Ian McDonald * Robert Reed * William Browning Spencer * Allen Steele * Michael Swanwick * Howard Waldrop * Cherry Wilder * Liz Williams A useful list of honorable mentions and Dozois's insightful summation of the year in sf round out this anthology, making it indispensable for anyone interested in SF today.

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Author : Mark Bould,Andrew Butler,Adam Roberts,Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135228354

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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction by Mark Bould,Andrew Butler,Adam Roberts,Sherryl Vint Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at: history – an integrated chronological narrative of the genre’s development theory – detailed accounts of major theoretical approaches including feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism and utopian studies issues and challenges – anticipates future directions for study in areas as diverse as science studies, music, design, environmentalism, ethics and alterity subgenres – a prismatic view of the genre, tracing themes and developments within specific subgenres. Bringing into dialogue the many perspectives on the genre The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and the future of science fiction and the way it is taught and studied.