This volume assembles 25 complete novels and short stories by Murray Leinster, published between 1919 and 1963. Included are such science fiction classics as "The Runaway Skyscraper," "Space Tug," and "Operation Terror," as well as rarities like "A Thousand Degrees Below Zero," "The Gallery Gods," and "Nerve." Also includes a biographical introduction and a selected bibliography.Complete list of contents:INTRODUCTIONTHE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER (1919)A THOUSAND DEGR...

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 are:PLANET OF DREADTHE WAILING ASTEROIDTHE FORGOTTEN ...

Unexpectedly the starship Stellaris hurtled off the earth and into the farthest reaches of space. If only that was the only problem! No star maps killer aliens and a ship that was only partially built.

Space Platform tells of man's first step into outer space, and of the difficulties and dangers of reaching for the stars. It is also an exciting adventure. When young Joe Kenmore came to Bootstrap to install pilot gyros in the Platform he hadn't bargained for sabotage or murder or love. But Joe learned that ruthless agents were determined to wreck the project. He found that the beautiful girl he loved, and men like The Chief, a rugged Indian steelworker, and Mike, a midget who made up for ...

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

The Aliens is a science fiction novella by Murray Leinster frist published in 1959.The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens.When two expanding empires meet ... war is inevitable.Or is it ...?Human civilisation is expanding across stellar systems. In some planets are found cairns, left by a hitherto unknown civilisation that humans nickname "Plumy". Some cairns are centuries old, others seem recen...

Classical science fiction awaits with three complete tales to excite and inspire your Imagination. 1.....Planet of Dread.....Stranded on a strange planet full of monsters, Captain Moran and his crew struggle for survival among giant Ants and Spiders, longing for the return home. 2.....Sons of the Deluge.....12,000 years into the past,Duke Callion and Joey Cox sped,in a desperate attempt to save the civilization of Aztlan from the deluge. 3.....Slave Raiders from Mercury.....Lester Allison ...

The RIM STAR seemed to be an ordinary enough spaceship bound for the planet Handel on a routine mission. Then young Braden, a merchant-space officer, discovered that there was something all wrong about the RIM STAR . . . The captain was wrong, the crew mutinous, and there was even something going on with the passengers. The ship was in deadly danger . . .For centuries space travelers had dreaded a place they called the Other Side of Nowhere - a place in the universe where up was do...

The little Med ship seemed absolutely motionless when the hour-off warning whirred. Then it continued to seem motionless. The background-noise tapes went on, making the small, unrelated sounds that exist unnoticed in all the places where human beings dwell, but which have to be provided in a ship in overdrive so a man don't go ship-happy from the dead stillness. The hour-off warning was notice of a change in the shape of things...FROM THE BOOKS

Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank. In desperation he turned toward Haney. "My God, we've been locked out!" Through the transparent domes of their space helmets, Joe could see a look of horror and disbelief pass across Haney's face. But it was true! Joe and his crew were locked out of the Space Platform. Four thousand miles below circled the Earth. Under Joe's feet rested the solid steel hull of his home in outer space. But without tools there was ...

The Last Spaceship is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster. The plot revolves around a group of astronauts who embark on a journey to explore the galaxy and discover new worlds. The mission is put in jeopardy when the ship's propulsion system fails, and the crew is forced to face numerous challenges and obstacles as they try to find a way back home. Along the way, they encounter strange creatures, visit exotic planets, and encounter a mysterious alien race with its own agenda. The no...

Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen lost in the menace of the fog-gas and the tanks depended the outcome of the war of 1932.