Med Ship officer Calhoun arrives in orbit over Maya on what should be a routine medical inspection, only to find a planet that will not answer. With Murgatroyd, his clever, coffee-loving tormal companion, at his side, he watches an intact world below and senses immediately that the silence is wrong. A nearby liner, the Candida, confirms the unease: after twelve hours in orbit, it too has received no response, even though one of its passengers is desperate to land. Calhoun descends to a cit...

Men Into Space launches readers into humanity's first hard-edged ventures beyond Earth, where weightlessness, isolation, and danger turn even simple actions into tests of nerve and skill. Through the career of Ed McCauley, Murray Leinster traces the rise of space travel from an impossible dream to an expanding frontier, following rockets, space platforms, moon landings, and the first bold attempts to reach Mars and beyond. The story combines scientifically grounded adventure with moments o...

Calhoun, the practical, good-humored Med Service doctor, expects a routine inspection when he and his loyal tormal, Murgatroyd, head for the colony world Maris III. Instead, the planet reacts to his arrival with fear, then silence, and a deadly landing-grid trap slams his ship blind and helpless out of the sky. Calhoun fights back with a brilliant burst of overdrive energy, crashes safely enough to survive, and finds himself stranded near an eerily pristine city that seems deserted yet has...

A sudden sound in the sky, a flash of impossible cold, and New York Harbor is transformed into a frozen trap in midsummer. Murray Leinster's A Thousand Degrees Below Zero launches a fast-moving scientific adventure in which ice behaves like a living force, swallowing ships, blocking straits, and spreading panic from harbor to harbor across the world. As scientists and reporters scramble for explanations, the disaster is revealed as the work of Wladislaw Varrhus, a ruthless would-be dictato...

A routine traffic call on Varenga becomes a race against time when Sergeant Madden learns that the passenger ship Cerberus has suffered a catastrophic overdrive failure and is limping toward a refuge planet. Worse, one of its passengers is the fiancée of his son Timmy, forcing the aging police officer to mix professional calm with private dread. In this far-future world, space emergencies are handled like any other civic matter, with police ships, careful procedure, and no room for spectac...

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...

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

The Serapis Classics edition of The Science Fiction Omnibus #1! A smashing, kick-butt collection of some of the best sci-fi ever written: GENESIS, by H. Beam Piper FARMER, by Mack Reynolds EARTHSMITH, by Milton Lesser WHERE THE WORLD IS QUIET, by C.H. Liddell WARNING FROM THE STARS, by Ron Cocking THY NAME IS WOMAN, by Kenneth O'Hara THE SWORD, by Frank Quattrocchi THE YILLIAN WAY, by Keith Laumer OPERATION EARTHWORM, by Joe Archibald THE LAST LETTER, by Fritz Leiber THE BACK OF OUR HEADS,...

The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack selects 25 more modern and classic science fiction stories, by talented authors new and old. Authors in this volume include: Mary A. Turzillo, E.C. Tubb, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jason Andrew, Henry Kuttner, Cynthia Ward, George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt, Milton Lesser, John Russell Fearn, Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, and many moreComplete contents"Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads," by Mar...

The third volume of Wildside Press's ongoing Murray Leinster series presents 15 more classic stories. Leinster was the pen name for William F. Jenkins (1896-1975), one of the great magazine writers of the 20th Century. This collection spans 6 decades and touches on most of the genres in which he worked: science fiction, fantasy, mystery, adventure, and war. Best of all, this is the first time 8 of the stories have ever been reprinted! Included are:MED SHIP MANTHE SENTIMENTAL...

Edited by the mysterious Rey Bertran, the Science Fiction Archive #1 features some of the greatest science fiction writing of all time. Featuring: The Sentimentalists, by Murray Leinster The Girls from Earth, by Frank Robinson The Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell Wright Song in a minor key, by C.L. Moore Sentry of the Sky, by Evelyn E. Smith Meeting of the Minds, by Robert Sheckley Junior, by Robert Abernathy Death Wish, by Ned Lang Dead World, by Jack Douglas Cost of Living, by Robert Shec...

It turned out afterward that somebody had punched the wrong button in a computer. It was in a matter in which mistakes are not permissible, but just as nothing can be manufactured without an ordinary hammer figuring somewhere in the making or the making-ready-to-make, so nothing can be done without a fallible human operating at some stage of the proceedings. And humans make mistakes casually, off-handedly, with impartial lack of malice, and unpredictability. So....Calhoun heard the tape-sp...