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Published August 1998

Hardcover (Trade) price: $25.00
Weight: 2.25

ISBN-13: 978-0-915368-67-9
ISBN-10: 0-915368-67-6
Page count: 464
Book Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"

First Contacts

The Essential Murray Leinster

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by Murray Leinster

First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster contains 24 stories covering the full spectrum of Leinster's career. Included are such classic early works as "Proxima Centauri," "First Contact," and one of the earliest alternate timeline stories, "Sidewise in Time." Included are "Keyhole," "De Profundis," and a story written in 1945 that anticipated the Internet, "A Logic Named Joe." The Hugo Award-winning "Exploration Team" was the inspiration for our full-color cover art by Hannibal King. Also, here for the first time are "The Great Catastrophe," his lost pulp epic, and the inspiring "To All Fat Policemen." There is a four-page introduction by renowned author Hal Clement.

Will by Hal Clement
Editor's Introduction by Joe Rico
A Logic Named Joe
If You Was a Globulin
The Ethical Equations
Keyhole
Doomsday Deferred
First Contact
Nobody Saw the Ship
Pipeline to Pluto
The Lonely Planet
De Profundis
The Power
The Castaway
The Strange Case of John Kingman
Proxima Centauri
The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator
Sam, This Is You
Sidewise in Time
Scrimshaw
Symbiosis
Cure for a Ylith
Plague on Kryder II
Exploration Team
Introduction to the Unpublished Stories by Joe Rico
The Great Catastrophe
To All Fat Policemen

Murray Leinster

Born William Fitzgerald Jenkins in 1896, near Norfolk, Virginia, Murray Leinster worked almost exclusively as a writer of science fiction and mystery literature. He did take time out for the two World Wars and to invent the back-projector special effect for motion pictures, perhaps the earliest virtual reality device. As befits one of the few authors who wrote for both the early pulps and modem science fiction magazines, Leinster won both a Hugo (for "Exploration Team") and a RetroHugo for "First Contact".

Hannibal King

Hannibal King, a martial arts expert who lives in Dorchester, Massachusetts, has done extensive work in comics and collectible card games. This is his first book cover.

Edited by Joe Rico
Cover art by Hannibal King

Introduction by Hal Clement