Murray Leinster

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Murray Leinster (born June 16, 1896 in Norfolk , Virginia , † June 8, 1975 in Gloucester Courthouse , Gloucester County , Virginia; actually William Fitzgerald Jenkins ) was an American writer . During his life, Leinster wrote over 1500 stories and novels in various genres with an emphasis on science fiction .

Life

Leinster wrote for a newspaper at the age of 13 and published his first science fiction story, The Runaway Skyscraper , in 1919 . He served in the First and Second World Wars .

In a short story from 1946 called A Logic Named Joe , he was one of the first to describe a so-called personal computer and an early vision of the Internet .

In 2000, his heirs sued Paramount Pictures over the name of the film Star Trek: The First Contact (orig .: Star Trek: First Contact ), which was called as a short story Leinster. However, the action was dismissed as the term was now in common use.

Some of his stories and novels served as templates for film and television productions. In 1966 bpsw. the film Fatal freight published in the following year saw The Terrornauts .

Leinster married Mary Mandola in 1921 and they had four daughters.

Awards

bibliography

Series

Joe Kenmore
  • Space Ferry (1952)
  • Space Platform (1953)
    • German: Project space station. Pabel, 1957.
  • Space Tug (1953)
    • German: Between earth and moon. Pabel UTOPIA large volume No. 49, 1957.
  • City on the Moon (1957)
Med service
  • The Mutant Weapon (1959)
    • German: The space doctor. Moewig Terra special volume no.49, 1961.
  • This World Is Taboo also: Pariah Planet (1961)
    • English: The Space Doctor and the Plague of Dara. Moewig Terra special volume No. 52, 1961.
  • Doctor to the Stars (1964)
    • German: The space doctor on the war path , Moewig Terra No. 405, 1965, also: Patrouille des Friedens. Luebbe-Bastei, Bastei SF No. 21, ISBN 3-404-00037-4 , 1972.
  • The Hate Disease (1963)
    • German: The space doctor intervenes. Moewig Terra No. 468, 1966.
  • SOS from Three Worlds (1966)
    • German: Three worlds radio SOS. Moewig Terra Nova No. 36, 1968.
Time tunnel
  • Time Tunnel (1964)
    • German: Company Zeittunnel also: The tunnel into the past. Moewig Terra Nova No. 47, 1966.
  • Timeslip! (1967)
    • German: Company Zeittransport. Moewig Terra Nova No. 50, 1968.
Land of the Giants
  • Land of the Giants also: Land of the Giants: The Trap (1968)
    • German: In the land of the giants. Moewig, 1969.
  • The Hot Spot (1969)
  • Unknown Danger (1969)

Single novels

  • Sidewise in Time (1934)
    • German: Across time. Pabel utopia science fiction. No. 500, 1966.
  • Fight for Life also: The Laws of Chance (1947)
    • German: law of chance. Moewig Terra No. 154, 1958.
  • The Last Space Ship (1949)
    • English: The last spaceship. Moewig Terra Vol. 131, 1967.
  • The Other World (1949)
    • German: The other world. Pabel, 1957.
  • Fury from Liliput (1949)
    • German: The fifth dimension. Pabel Utopia Science Fiction No. 450, 1965.
  • Planet of the Small Men (1950)
    • German: The planet of the little ones. Pabel Utopia Science Fiction No. 523, 1967.
  • Conquest of the Stars (1952)
  • The Unknown (1952)
  • The Brain-Stealers (1954)
    • English: Vampires from space. Moewig Terra Vol. 200, 1961.
  • Gateway to Elsewhere (1954)
  • Operation: Outer Space (1954)
  • TV studio galaxy. Moewig Terra Vol. 137, 1958.
  • The Black Galaxy (1954)
  • The Forgotten Planet (1954)
    • English: The forgotten planet. Pabel Utopia Science Fiction Large Volume No. 62, 1957.
  • The Other Side of Here (1955)
    • English: invasion from another world. Moewig Terra Vol. 94, 1960.
  • The Planet Explorer (1956)
    • German: The planetary inspector. Heyne, 1967.
  • Colonial Survey (1956)
    • German: Adventure on Loren II. 1958.
  • War with the Gizmos (1958)
  • The Strange Invasion (1958)
    • English: dangerous invasion. Pabel Utopia Science Fiction No. 130, 1958.
  • Four from Planet 5 (1959)
    • English: The children from the fifth planet. Moewig Terra No. 70, 1963.
  • The Monster from Earth's End (1959)
    • English: Monster from the end of the world. Pabel Utopia Science Fiction No. 549, 1967.
  • The Pirates of Zan also: The Pirates of Ersatz (1959)
    • English: Pirate fleet over Darth. Moewig Terra Vol. 284, 1962.
  • Men Into Space (1960)
    • German: Conqueror of space. Moewig, 1968.
  • Creatures of the Abyss also: The Listeners (1961)
    • English: The eavesdroppers in the deep. Moewig Terra Vol. 490, 1966.
  • The Wailing Asteroid (1961)
    • English: The call of the asteroid. Moewig Terra Vol. 416, 1965.
  • Talents, Incorporated (1962)
  • Operation Terror (1962)
    • German: Terrorstrahl. Moewig Terra Vol. 366, 1964.
  • The Greks Bring Gifts (1964)
  • Invaders of Space (1964)
    • German: privateer of space. Pabel Utopia Science Fiction No. 465, 1965.
  • The Duplicators also: Lords of the Uffts (1964)
    • German: The Revolution of the Uffts. Moewig Terra Vol. 426, 1965.
  • The Other Side of Nowhere (1964)
  • Checkpoint Lambda (1966)
  • Get Off My World! (1966)
  • Space Captain (1966)
    • English: Captain Trent and the Pirates. Pabel Utopia Science Fiction No. 514, 1966.
  • Miners in the Sky (1967)
  • Space Gypsies (1967)
  • Quarantine World (1992)
  • Sand Doom (2007)

Story collections

  • with Malcolm Jameson , Frank Belknap Long , Eric Frank Russell : The Ultimate Invader: And Other Science-Fiction (1954)
  • Out of this World (1958)
  • Monsters and Such (1959)
    • German: monsters and other contemporaries. Pabel, 1971.
  • Twists in Time (1960)
    • English: The end of the galaxy. Moewig, 1969.
  • The Aliens (1965)
    • German: Phantome. 1973.
  • with Jack Williamson , John Wyndham : The Moon Era (1967)
  • The Best of Murray Leinster (1976)
  • First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster (1995)
  • Planets of Adventure (2003)
  • The Runaway Skyscraper and Other Tales from the Pulps (2007)

Other books

(thematically not related to science fiction)

  • Her Desert Lover (1925, as Louisa Carter Lee)
  • Scalps: A Murder Mystery also: Wings of Change (1930)
  • Love and Better: A Love Story (1931, as Louisa Carter Lee)
  • Murder Madness (1931)
  • Murder Will Out (1932, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Sword of Kings (1933, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Mexican Trail (1933, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Rustlin 'Sheriff also: Outlaw Sheriff (1934, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Murder in the Family (1935, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • No Clues (1935, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Black Sheep also: Texas Gun-Law (1936, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Guns for Action (1936, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • The Man who Feared (1942, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • The Murder of the USA also: Destroy the USA (1946, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Two-Gun Showdown also: The Gamblin 'Kid (1948, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Wanted Dead Or Alive (1950)
  • Dallas (1950, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Fighting Horse Valley also: Texas Gun-Slinger (1951, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • The Kid Deputy (1951, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Cattle Rustlers (1953, as Will F. Jenkins)
  • Outlaw Deputy (1954)

literature

Web links

Commons : Murray Leinster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Murray Leinster  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Georg Ruppelt: "The great humming god". Thinking machines, computers and artificial intelligence in literature. In: (ders.): After Martin Luther became Pope and the Allies had lost the Second World War. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2007, here p. 174.
personal data
SURNAME Leinster, Murray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jenkins, William Fitzgerald (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Norfolk , Virginia, USA
DATE OF DEATH June 8th 1975
Place of death Gloucester Courthouse , Gloucester County , Virginia