The Best of Murray Leinster by John J. Pierce

Leinster's 'The Fifth-Dimensional Catapult' was the cover story in the January 1931 Astounding Stories. Leinster's vision of extraordinary oscillations in time ('sidewise in time') had a long-term impact on other authors, for example Isaac Asimov's 'Living Space', 'The Red Queen's Race', and The End of Eternity. Four years before Jack Williamson's The Legion of Time came out, Leinster published his 'Sidewise in Time' in the June 1934 issue of Astounding. Leinster was an early writer of parallel universe stories. He continued to appear frequently in other genre pulps such as Detective Fiction Weekly and Smashing Western, as well as Collier's Weekly beginning in 1936 and Esquire starting in 1939. In the 1930s, he published several science fiction stories and serials in Amazing and Astounding Stories (the first issue of Astounding included his story 'Tanks'). Leinster's first science fiction story, 'The Runaway Skyscraper', appeared in the Februissue of Argosy, and was reprinted in the June 1926 issue of Hugo Gernsback's first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. When the pulp magazines began to diversify into particular genres in the 1920s, Leinster followed suit, selling jungle stories to Danger Trails, westerns to West and Cowboy Stories, detective stories to Black Mask and Mystery Stories, horror stories to Weird Tales, and even romance stories to Love Story Magazine under the pen name Louisa Carter Lee. He continued to appear regularly in Argosy into the 1950s. During and after the war, he began appearing in pulp magazines like Argosy, Snappy Stories, and Breezy Stories.

Over the next three years, Leinster published ten more stories in the magazine in a September 2022 interview, Leinster's daughter stated that Mencken recommended the use of a pseudonym for non- Smart Set content.ĭuring World War I, Leinster served with the Committee of Public Information and the United States Army (1917–1918). Mencken's literary magazine The Smart Set.

He was two months short of his 20th birthday when his first story, 'The Foreigner', appeared in the May 1916 issue of H. A high school dropout, he nevertheless began a career as a freelance writer before World War I. Although both parents were born in Virginia, the family lived in Manhattan in 1910, according to the 1910 Federal Census. Leinster was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of George B. Writing career Leinster's 'Juju' was the cover story of The Thrill Book in October 1919. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays. Murray Leinster (J– June 8, 1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. For the English cricketer, see Will Jenkins.American science fiction writer This article is about the American science fiction and pulp writer.

The Best of Murray Leinster by John J. Pierce