The Second Murray Leinster Megapack

Murray Leinster Megapacks #2

by Murray Leinster

Hours of great reading await, with The Second Murray Leinster Megapack! Leinster -- a staple in the Golden Age of pulp science fiction -- penned more than a thousand stories during his long and celebrated career. This volume selects 20 more classic Leinster tales (all published between 1919 and 1960).

Included are:

Evidence (1919)

Murder Madness (1930)

The Extra Intelligence (1935)

The Eternal Now (1944)

The Ethical Equations (1945)

The Plants (1946)

Friends (1947)

The Laws of Chance (1947)

The Day of the Deepies (1947)

Propagandist (1947)

West Wind (1948)

Planet of Sand (1948)

The Night Before the End Of the World (1948)

This Star Shall Be Free (1949)

Cure for a Ylith (1949)

Keyhole (1951)

The Middle of the Week After Next (1952)

Overdrive (1953)

The Wailing Asteroid (1960)

Attention Saint Patrick (1960)

And don’t forget to search this ebook store for more entries in the Megapack series — covering such diverse topics as science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, westerns, adventure, and classic authors such as Murray Leinster, Rafael Sabatini, B.M. Bower, and many more.

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories

736 pages, 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.