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Murray Leinster (1896–1975)

Auteur van Med Ship

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(eng) Murray Leinster is the pseudonym of William Fitzgerald Jenkins. He also wrote romance as Louisa Carter Lee. He also wrote as Will F. Jenkins and William Fitzgerald.

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Werken van Murray Leinster

Med Ship (2002) 268 exemplaren
A Logic Named Joe [collection] (2005) — Auteur — 197 exemplaren
The Forgotten Planet (1954) 194 exemplaren
Doctor to the Stars (1964) 179 exemplaren
The Wailing Asteroid (1960) 173 exemplaren
The Best of Murray Leinster (1976) — Auteur — 161 exemplaren
Operation: Outer Space (1954) 158 exemplaren
Time tunnel (1964) 153 exemplaren
Planets of Adventure (2003) 147 exemplaren
Sabotage 1 Ruimteplatform (1965) 143 exemplaren
Sabotage 2 Pendeldienst (1965) 143 exemplaren
The Pirates of Zan (1959) 127 exemplaren
This world is taboo (1961) 120 exemplaren
Operation Terror (1962) — Auteur — 104 exemplaren
First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster (1998) — Auteur — 96 exemplaren
S.O.S. From Three Worlds (1966) — Auteur — 94 exemplaren
The Aliens (1960) — Auteur — 91 exemplaren
Invaders of Space (1963) 91 exemplaren
Four from Planet 5 (1500) 89 exemplaren
Land of the giants (1968) 84 exemplaren
Hels kwartet (1957) 83 exemplaren
Talents, Incorporated (1683) 81 exemplaren
Space Gypsies (1967) 80 exemplaren
Creatures of the Abyss (1961) 75 exemplaren
The Med Series (1983) 72 exemplaren
Twists in Time (1960) 69 exemplaren
Space Captain; and, The Mad Metropolis (1966) — Auteur — 67 exemplaren
The Duplicators / No Truce with Terra (1964) — Auteur — 66 exemplaren
Miners in the Sky (1967) 65 exemplaren
War with the Gizmos (1958) — Auteur — 64 exemplaren
The Monster from Earth's End (1959) 61 exemplaren
The brain-stealers (1954) 57 exemplaren
The Other Side of Nowhere (1964) — Auteur — 57 exemplaren
Checkpoint Lambda (1966) 55 exemplaren
The Last Spaceship (1949) 51 exemplaren
Gateway to Elsewhere / The Weapon Shops of Isher (1954) — Auteur — 50 exemplaren
The Best of Murray Leinster (1976) 48 exemplaren
Quarantine World (collection) (1992) — Auteur — 46 exemplaren
City on the Moon / Men on the Moon (Ace Double) (1953) — Auteur — 45 exemplaren
Get Off My World! (1966) 41 exemplaren
Men Into Space (1960) 40 exemplaren
Sidewise in time and other scientific adventures (1950) — Auteur — 38 exemplaren
The Black Galaxy (1958) 35 exemplaren
Monsters and Such (1959) 33 exemplaren
The Mutant Weapon (1957) 28 exemplaren
First Contact [short story] (1945) 28 exemplaren
Sabotage 3 Maanstation (1957) 24 exemplaren
The Duplicators (1964) 24 exemplaren
Great Stories of Science Fiction (1951) 23 exemplaren
Atta / The Brain-stealers (Classic Ace Double D-79) (1954) — Auteur — 23 exemplaren
The Mad Planet (2011) 20 exemplaren
Out of this world (1958) 19 exemplaren
Tallien Three (1963) 19 exemplaren
The Machine That Saved the World (2010) 19 exemplaren
The Fifth-Dimension Tube (2010) 18 exemplaren
Exploration Team (1956) 16 exemplaren
Murder madness (1949) 15 exemplaren
Invasion (2010) 14 exemplaren
Sand Doom (2007) 14 exemplaren
The Leader (1960) 14 exemplaren
The Aliens [short story] (2008) 12 exemplaren
Long Ago, Far Away (2008) 12 exemplaren
Demain les puces (1986) 12 exemplaren
Scrimshaw (2010) 12 exemplaren
Nightmare Planet (2013) 10 exemplaren
Keyhole 10 exemplaren
Attention Saint Patrick (2010) 9 exemplaren
Sam, This is You (2010) 9 exemplaren
The Other Now (1951) 9 exemplaren
A Matter of Importance (2011) 9 exemplaren
The Invaders (2010) 9 exemplaren
The Red Dust (2012) 8 exemplaren
Space Captain (1966) 8 exemplaren
A Logic Named Joe [short story] (1946) 8 exemplaren
The Murder of the U.S.A (1947) 7 exemplaren
Spaceman (1964) — Auteur — 7 exemplaren
Planet of Dread (2015) 7 exemplaren
Med Ship Man (1963) 6 exemplaren
The Grandfathers' War (1957) 6 exemplaren
The Ambulance Made Two Trips (2010) 6 exemplaren
El planeta solitario (1978) 6 exemplaren
Second Landing 5 exemplaren
White Spot (2020) 5 exemplaren
Gateway to Elsewhere (1950) 5 exemplaren
Outlaw sheriff, 5 exemplaren
A Thousand Degrees Below Zero (2015) 5 exemplaren
The Fifth-Dimension Catapult (2010) 5 exemplaren
Ribbon In The Sky (1957) 5 exemplaren
Historical Note (1951) 4 exemplaren
Mexican trail 4 exemplaren
Third Planet (2016) 4 exemplaren
The Silver Menace (1919) 4 exemplaren
Sidewise in Time [short story] (2020) 4 exemplaren
The Gamblin' Kid (1933) 3 exemplaren
Kid Deputy (2013) 3 exemplaren
Evidence (2012) 3 exemplaren
Tanks (2010) 3 exemplaren
The Murray Leinster Megapack (2012) 3 exemplaren
Science Fiction Special 7 (1973) — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
Quarantine World [short story] (1966) — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
Corianis Disaster (1960) 3 exemplaren
High Adventure #110 (2010) 3 exemplaren
Fight for Life (1947) 3 exemplaren
If You Was A Moklin 3 exemplaren
The Sentimentalists (2016) 3 exemplaren
Critical Difference (1956) 3 exemplaren
Propagandist 3 exemplaren
The Other World 2 exemplaren
Sword of Kings 2 exemplaren
The Mole Pirate 2 exemplaren
5 Sci-Fi Classics 2 exemplaren
Planetas perdidos 2 exemplaren
Black Sheep 2 exemplaren
Overdrive 2 exemplaren
The Wabbler 2 exemplaren
Amazing Stories 2 exemplaren
Murder Will Out (2013) 2 exemplaren
The Daughter of Thor & Talents, Incorporated (2016) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
Bivi nel tempo 2 exemplaren
Mundo prohibido 2 exemplaren
Dallas (2008) 2 exemplaren
The Journey 2 exemplaren
Imbalance 2 exemplaren
Planet of Sand (2011) 2 exemplaren
Interference 2 exemplaren
Anthropological Note 2 exemplaren
The Skit-tree Planet 2 exemplaren
Nobody Saw The Ship (1950) 2 exemplaren
Hell Trail Pilgrim 1 exemplaar
Guerra a los Djinns 1 exemplaar
The Vault (2021) 1 exemplaar
By The Guns Forgot 1 exemplaar
Pierwszy kontakt (2014) 1 exemplaar
Assassinat des États-Unis (1951) 1 exemplaar
Devil's Henchman 1 exemplaar
Short Works of Murray Leinster (2008) 1 exemplaar
Cattle Rustlers 1 exemplaar
The Seventh Bullet (2001) 1 exemplaar
Things Pass By 1 exemplaar
Night Drive 1 exemplaar
Doctor 1 exemplaar
Plague 1 exemplaar
The Hate Disease 1 exemplaar
Time Slip 1 exemplaar
Out of the World 1 exemplaar
The Man Who Feared 1 exemplaar
Destroy the U.S.A. 1 exemplaar
Side Bet 1 exemplaar
The Manless Worlds 1 exemplaar
Pink Ears : By Murray Leinster (2021) 1 exemplaar
El tunel del tiempo 1 exemplaar
The Castaway 1 exemplaar
The Gregory Circle 1 exemplaar
Fugitive From Space 1 exemplaar
The Deadly Dust 1 exemplaar
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Assignment On Pasik 1 exemplaar
Dear Charles (1955) 1 exemplaar
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Thing From The Sky (1960) 1 exemplaar
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Adapter 1 exemplaar
Three Stories (1967) 1 exemplaar
Sam This Is You (2022) 1 exemplaar
High Adventure #178 (2021) 1 exemplaar
The Barrier 1 exemplaar
Interstellar Patrol 1 exemplaar
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Samotna planeta 1 exemplaar
Terror 1 exemplaar
Doctor (2018) 1 exemplaar
West Wind 1 exemplaar
Het eeuwige nu 1 exemplaar
Outlaw Deputy 1 exemplaar
Tight Place 1 exemplaar
The Murray Leinster Collection (2018) 1 exemplaar
Atentado a los EE.UU. (1947) 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam
Jenkins, William Fitzgerald
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Lee, Louisa Carter
Leinster, Murray
Fitzgerald, William
Jenkins, Will F.
Geboortedatum
1896-06-16
Overlijdensdatum
1975-06-08
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Gloucester, Virginia, USA
Woonplaatsen
Norfolk, Virginia, USA (birth)
Gloucester, Virginia, USA (death)
Beroepen
science fiction writer
inventor
bookkeeper
soldier
Organisaties
United States Army (WWI)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
The Virginia House of Delegates designated June 27, 2009, as "Will F. Jenkins Day". [2009]
Worldcon Guest of Honor (1963)
Ontwarringsbericht
Murray Leinster is the pseudonym of William Fitzgerald Jenkins. He also wrote romance as Louisa Carter Lee. He also wrote as Will F. Jenkins and William Fitzgerald.

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It's incredible how a sci-fi story published over 70 years ago stands up. I would be lying if I wasn't hoping for more of a twist or a twang at the end.

It's giving Final Destination meets The Lake House.

The reading I listened to on YouTube by Vintage Sci-fi Audiobooks was brilliant.
 
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RatGrrrl | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 20, 2023 |
Vintage Sci-Fi. 30,000 years in the future global warming has created a carbon-heavy atmosphere that allows insects to grow t5o great sizes. Humanity has devolved to a nearly mindless state. Our hero, a throw-back to his ancestors single-handedly discovers weapons and hunting.
read 11/30/2023
 
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catseyegreen | Nov 30, 2023 |
Leinster is one of the lesser known writers from the Golden Age of science fiction, which spanned the 1940s-1960s. He was very popular in that era and very prolific, plus he also managed the feat of writing for mainstream magazines such as Argosy as well as the science fiction magazines which were looked down on as 'pulps'.

The stories are a mixture of straight science fiction such as 'Pipeline to Pluto' or more fanciful tales involving time travel by mental control. The key feature of all Leinster's work is the ethical and moral strand in it, with villains often getting their come uppance. In fact, one of his stories is called 'The Ethical Equations' and in it a lowly Lieutenant who has been put in charge of first contact with an alien species aboard a wandering vessel that has entered the solar system has to balance the needs of humanity (and the combination of greed for the aliens' technology with the desire to destroy them to safeguard Earth, shown by his superiors) and the requirement to act in an ethical way for all parties.

As with any stories from this period, the modern day reader has to make allowances for certain attitudes. There doesn't appear to be any obvious racism, but attitudes to women are typical of the time, with female characters being wimpish and irrational. One of the better stories, 'If You Was a Mocklin', is slightly spoiled by this, but is still amusing and with a good twist. Probably the best story is 'The Devil of Eat Lupton', about a tramp who makes first contact with what appears to be the scout for a hostile alien force, and deals with his complete incomprehension and blundering, and the unexpected outcome.

Regarding the cover of the UK edition, presumably a homage to the bug eyed monster sensationalism of pulp era magazines: the story it illustrates is anything but, as the BEM in question is an intelligent creature from a race which has a totally aquatic experience and carnivorous mentality. Nevertheless, this individual overcomes its mindset to interact helpfully with what to it are completely alien creatures, human beings. So Leinster actually subverted the usual pulp stereotype in this story, Dear Profundis.
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kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 |
The med service has received a plea from the planet Pheydra, for medical help take care of casualties from a war that is about to erupt. In perpetration for their sun going nova, the young people are sent away to prepare the new home. Now on separate planets the generations have turned against one another. Calhoun faces the challenge of how as someone who is dedicated to be neutral solve this mess?
The author has a classic view of gender roles and development.
 
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nx74defiant | Nov 21, 2023 |

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