Murray Leinster

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  • Bibliography:
    77 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1954
  • Latest Book:
    August 2021
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Book List in Order: 77 titles

  • Outlaw Deputy

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  • Doctor to the Stars

  • The Med Series

    Roving through the uncharted vastness of deep space, Med Serviceman Calhoun of the Interplanetary Medical Service brings his mission of healing to isolated colonists far from Earth.Alone in his starship with only his pet tormal for companionship, Cal...

  • The Forgotten Planet

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    Beneath dense gray clouds through which no sun shone lay a forgotten planet. It was a nightmare world of grotesque and terrifying animal-plant life. Gigantic beetles, spiders, bugs and ants filled the putrid, musty earth -- ready to kill and devour a...

  • Quarantine World

  • First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster

    A collection of the trend-setting stories of "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. This collection contains two stories not p...

  • Planets of Adventure

    Two complete novels by the critically acclaimed science fiction master includes the Hugo Award-winning The Planet Explorer, in which the fate of the colonies across the galaxy rests in the hands of a single man, and The Forgotten Planet

  • This World Is Taboo

    Written by Murray Leinster (a pseudonym of William Fitzgerald Jenkins's) This World Is Taboo was first published as "Pariah Planet" in Amazing Stories, July 1961, and is the second volume in the Med Services series. Leinster wrote more than 1500 s...

  • Creatures of the Abyss

    Orejas de ellos, the things who listen, whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else could you explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam? The writh...



  • The Last Spaceship

    Kim Rendall will not yield to the tyranny of the power-madrulers of Alphin III. Branded an outlaw, he is in danger of psychological torture worse than death from the Disiplinary Circuit, which keeps the masses in check.

    His one hope lies in the S...

  • Operation Terror

    "He speaks with a directness of the heart . . . with a craftsmanship and consistency that warrant the nickname he was given: the Dean of SF." -- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

    "Murray Leinster" was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins ...

  • Operation: Outer Space

    Jed Cochrane tried to be cynical as the helicab hummed softly through the night over the city. The cab flew at two thousand feet, where lighted buildings seemed to soar toward it from the canyons which were streets. There were lights and people every...

  • Space Tug

    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 p...

  • Operation

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The Planet Explorer

    Eons from now, Man will hurtle through the void in gravity-defying ships across light years of distance to far-flung planets . . . And more staggering yet, he will colonize these islands in the unimaginably vast ocean of space. There will be world, s...

  • The Runaway Skyscraper And Other Tales From The Pulps

    The whole thing started when the clock on the Metropolitan Tower began to run backward. It was not a graceful proceeding. The hands had been moving onward in their customary deliberate fashion, slowly and thoughtfully, but suddenly the people in the ...

  • The Black Galaxy

    When Stellaris, the first human interstellar ship, unexpectedly hurtles off the earth, it takes the ship's designer, Rob Cantrell, his girlfriend and a skeleton crew with it into the furthest reaches of space. If only that was their biggest problem! ...

  • The Duplicators

    Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was the nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American science fiction and alternate history writer. Throughout much of his career, Leinster strove to tell entertaining stories. He certainly does here: "The Duplic...

  • The Aliens and Other Stories



  • The Brain Stealers

  • From Beyond the Stars

  • The Mutant Weapon

    The only links between the far-flung space colonies were the Medical Services spaceships. When these lonely travelers paid a call, they were always given a royal welcome. So why did the landing grid on Marix III try to destroy Med Serviceman Calhoun'...

  • The Pirates Of Zan

    Because Bron Hoddan was a serious electronics engineer, he didn't want any part of his particular planetary heritage. For he was from Zan - and Zan's only occupation was spaceship piracy! So Bron went to Walden, the most civilized planet of them all....

  • War With The Gizmos

    The first battles began in the wilderness. The animals in the forests and glades struggled furiously for life and often fought with splendid courage. But they never won; they were always killed. And now it was man's turn......

  • Twists In Time

    This volume contains 7 short works by Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins), including: "Rogue Star," "Dear Charles," "Dead City," "Sam, This Is You," "The Other Now," The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator," and "The End."...

  • Talents, Incorporated

    One of the sole survivors of a raid that wiped out virtually his entire planet, Captain Bors is adrift -- literally and figuratively. His encounter with a group of misfits with an unusual assemblage of talents, skills, and superpowers sets his life o...

  • Four from Planet Five

  • Men Into Space

    Men Into Space is the thrilling story of man's gradual conquest of outer space, seen through the eyes of young Ed McCauley, whose adventures in outer space will excite you with the sheer wonder of man's daring entry into the Space Age....

  • The Pirates of Ersatz

    Sometimes it seems nobody loves a benefactor ... particularly nobody on a well-heeled, self-satisfied planet. Grandpa always said Pirates were really benefactors, though.......



  • Long Ago, Far Away

    When an alien spacecraft crashes in Antarctica, four young alien beings from a world known as Planet 5 survive the ordeal. This turn of events throws the humans who rescue the survivors into a profound moral quandary. If they attempt to help the chil...

  • The Machine That Saved the World

    What if the inhabitants of Earth received a message from the future warning of an upcoming calamity that could wipe out the entire planet? That's the plot that propels "The Machine that Saved the World" by prolific SF luminary Murray Leinster. When t...

  • Adventure in the Fifth Dimension

    The Fifth Dimension Catapult and The Fifth Dimension Tube in one volume!  Excerpt The Fifth Dimension Catapult The story of Tommy Reames extraordinary rescue of Professor Denham and his daughter -- marooned in the fifth dimension.  The Fift...

  • A Matter of Importance

    The importance of a matter is almost entirely a matter of your attitude. And whether you call something "a riot" or "a war" ... well, there is a difference, but what is it?...

  • Murder Madness

    Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. So Bell, of the secret "Trade," plunges into South America after The Master -- the mighty, u...

  • The invaders

    When we imagine establishing contact with an alien race, we usually assume that the interstellar interlopers would be light-years ahead of us in terms of technological sophistication. But what if our new alien acquaintances were astoundingly average ...

  • Pariah Planet

    When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award...

  • Sam, This is You

    What if you could talk to the version of you who existed ten days ago, or the you who will exist ten days in the future? That's exactly what enterprising telephone lineman Sam Yoder figures out how to do in the surprisingly funny science-fiction stor...

  • Scrimshaw

    Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or downloa...

  • Tanks

    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. excerpt The persistent, oily smell of fog-gas was everywhere, even in the little pill-bo...



  • The Fifth Dimension Catapult

    The story of Tommy Reames extraordinary rescue of Professor Denham and his daughter -- marooned in the fifth dimension.  excerpt This story has no normal starting-place, because there are too many places where it might be said to begin. One mig...

  • The Fifth Dimension Tube

    THE generator rumbled and roared, building up to its maximum speed. The whole laboratory quivered from its vibration. The dynamo hummed and whined and the night silence outside seemed to make the noises within more deafening. Tommy Reames ran his eye...

  • Labor of Love

    There's a basic difference in the method of thinking we of today use as against that used a millennium or more ago. It's remarkably hard to spot -- because we assume that, of course, everybody always thought this way, didn't they . . .ExcerptIn mat...

  • Planet Of Sand

    False charges led to Stan Huckley’s imprisonment aboard the Stallifer. When he gets his chance to escape, clear his name, and win the love of woman he adores -- and kill Rob Torren, who put him in prison -- it’s a gamble he’s willing to take. B...

  • Tyrants Need To Be Loved

    Here is a sardonic tale which proves once again that... TYRANTS NEED TO BE LOVED ExcerptDoctor Zoch had said that nobody wants to be loved as much as a tyrant, because to be all-powerful is to live in constant fear. But tonight Igor felt no love at a...

  • The Other Now

    Galaxy, March 1951THE OTHER NOWBy Murray LeinsterHe knew his wife was dead, because he’d seen her buried. But it was only one possibility out of infinitely many!4700 Words...

  • The Aliens

    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 …? At 04 hours 10 minutes, ship time, the Niccola was well inside the Theta Gisol solar system. ...

  • The World is Taboo

    Much like the lepers of ancient times, the inhabitants of the planet Dara have been afflicted by a deadly epidemic and shunned by their neighbors. Only one man's moral code compels him to intervene and help save this otherwise-doomed race. Will the c...

  • Evidence

  • The Strange Invasion

    The Gizmo Invasion was unique in space and time. Not even the dawn of the Atomic Age with its Earth satellite sequel had stirred men more profoundly, or posed a greater challenge. They were spawned in a vast wilderness ... and the war they waged agai...



  • The Red Dust

    You who have read "The Mad Planet" by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and tiny Man is now in the proce...

  • The Silver Menace

    At last the government could keep silence no longer, and the world was informed of the true malignity of the Silver Menace. The silvery jelly had reached the American coasts, invaded and conquered the harbors, and was even then rapidly solidifying th...

  • Anthology of Sci-Fi V25, the Pulp Writers - Murray Leinster

    The Anthology of Sci-Fi V25 is a collection of thirteen Sci-fi stories from one of the best writers of the past century. Included are: The Runaway Skyscraper, Tanks, Morale, Invasion, Sam, This is You, Scrimshaw, Sand Doom, The Machine That Saved The...

  • The Friend of Captain Dick

    PERIL PRESS presents: Short Stories, March 25 1936 THE FRIEND OF CAPTAIN DICK by Murray Leinster Author of “Charley’s Partner,” “After Two Cigarettes,” etc. Among the Pearling Islands Captain Dick Was Lucky To Have a Friend His Friend Wan...

  • Nightmare Planet

    The Directory-ship Tethys made the first landing on the planet, L21612. It was a goodly world, with an ample atmosphere and many seas, which the nearby sun warmed so lavishly that a perpetual cloud-bank hid them and all the solid ground from view. It...

  • The Ambulance Made Two Trips

    If you should set a thief to catch a thief, what does it take to stop a racketeer...?...

  • If You Was a Moklin

  • Third Planet

    The aliens had lost their lives to nuclear war -- but their loss might be the salvation of Earth!...

  • The Sentimentalists

    The Sentimentalists, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format ...

  • Planet of Dread and other Stories

    Moran cut apart the yard-long monstrosity with a slash of flame. The thing presumably died, but it continued to writhe senselessly. He turned to see other horrors crawling toward him. Then he knew he was being marooned on a planet of endless terrors....

  • Gateway to Elsewhere

    Tony Gregg was just an ordinary everyday American until the day he came into possession of an old Barkut coin. He knew it was more than just a collector's curio because there was no such place on any map of Earth, past or present. He learned then tha...

  • Invaders of Space

    Things were quiet that night in the space port. Then the 'Theban' arrived without warning, bringing with it a surly crew, led by a blustering captain, Larson... The 'Theban' was old, propelled by a totally obsolescent interplanetary drive. The only w...

  • The Monster from Earth's End

    There was nothing on the island big enough to kill a man, yet each new day brought with it another bloody death, another mysterious disappearance.The first hint of something wrong at the outpost was the plane. It crazily circled the little island, it...

  • Checkpoint Lambda

    As soon as he arrived to take over his command, Scott knew that something was wrong on Checkpoint Lambda. Scott realized that not only his life, but the existence of the Lambda depended upon his finding out what was wrong . . . for the charts indicat...

  • The Last Space Ship

    Put yourself in the place of Kim Rendall, a handsome, idealistic young man living on a distant planet ruled by a super-efficient government. Here is industrialization carried to its illogical conclusion. Kim Rendall lives in the shadow of mechanized ...

  • The Other Side of Nowhere

    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 cr...

  • Space Gypsies

    The MARINTHA hurtled into space to discover the secret of the galactic ancestors of the human race.In the shattered rubble of great civilizations they discovered bizarre remnants of humanity beside whom they would battle the poisonous forces arrayed ...

  • Sidewise in Time

    Ten selected short stories from the master of pulp, Murray Leinster - pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, who's prolific career spanned the first six decades of the 20th Century. The Golden Age Masterwork of Sidewise in Time includes the Hugo Awa...

  • Attention Saint Patrick

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    President O'Hanrahan of the planetary government of Eire listened unhappily to his official guest. He had to, because Sean O'Donohue was chairman of the Dail--of Eire on Earth--Committee on the Condition of the Planet Eire. He could cut off all su...

  • Contraband Rocket

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    THE FORGOTTEN PLANET is a world where the Terraforming stopped too soon. Result: insects evolved to human size plus. Non-chlorophyll plants also prospered and killed off the trees and grasses, then evolved into hugeness themselves. You would not expe...

  • The Hate Disease

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    As a member of the elite Interstellar Medical Service, Dr. Calhoun is used to encountering the most complex and challenging illnesses and injuries. But nothing could have prepared him for the bizarre affliction that comes to be known as the Hate Dise...

  • Invasion

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    In Murray Leinster's "Invasion," the unthinkable has come to pass -- a spacecraft has touched ground on American soil with intentions that seem to be nefarious. A lone U.S. soldier is trapped within the vast force field surrounding the ship, and he q...

  • The Leader

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    Apparently by pure force of personality he seized without resistance the government of one of the world's great nations. So much is unlikely enough. But as the ruler of a civilized country he imposed upon its people the absolute despotism of a pri...

  • The Mad Planet

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    In All His lifetime of perhaps twenty years, it had never occurred to Burl to wonder what his grandfather had thought about his surroundings. The grandfather had come to an untimely end in a rather unpleasant fashion which Burl remembered vaguely as ...

  • Morale

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    Written before the outbreak of World War II, this remarkable story imagines a military conflict in which a weapon of unprecedented power and destructiveness is unleashed -- but this time, it's an enemy of the U.S. that has the upper hand. With entire...

  • Sand Doom

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    The American science fiction writer who used the nom de plume Murray Leinster was extremely prolific, penning more than 1,500 stories and novels over the course of his career, as well as a number of radio, television, and movie scripts. The story "Sa...

  • Space Platform

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    Ever since ancient man first gazed in wonder at the stars, humanity has dreamed of traveling to outer space. Now scientists agree that space-flight may very soon become a reality. When young Joe Kenmore came to Bootstrap to install pilot gyros in the...

  • Wailing Asteroid

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    The public abruptly ceased to be interested in news of the signals. Rather, it suddenly wanted to stop thinking about them. The public was scared. Throughout all human history, the most horrifying of all ideas has been the idea of something which was...

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Murray Leinster has published 77 books.

Murray Leinster does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sidewise in Time, was published in August 2021.

The first book by Murray Leinster, Outlaw Deputy, was published in January 1954.

No. Murray Leinster does not write books in series.
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