Murray Leinster: 158 books

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 . . .

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 offices near the clock's face heard an ominous creaking...

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 cities swept off the map in a matter of seconds, will the country be able to fight back?

It started in Greece on the day after tomorrow. Before the last act raced to a close, Coburn was buried to his ears in assorted adventures, including a revolution and an invasion from outer space! We're not given to throwing around the word "epic" lightly, but here is one! Swashbuckling...

His work was healing the sick—but his planet was already dead!

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 a succession of screams coming more and more faintly...

Seven secret service men have completely disappeared. Another has been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. It is now up to Bell, of the secret "Trade," who plunges into South America and goes after the Master—the mighty, unknown octopus of powers, whose diabolical poison threatens the entire continent and push it into the chaos of madness!

Bordman knew there was something wrong when the throbbing, acutely uncomfortable vibration of rocket blasts shook the ship. Rockets were strictly emergency devices, these days, so when they were used there was obviously an emergency. He sat still. He had been reading, in the passenger lounge of the Warlock—a...

There is something very noble and thrilling about being a doctor or a medical team person who can travel into inter-galactic ships and provide care for ET species. Likewise, Dr. Calhoun and his medical assistant Murgatroyd, love going on adventures and heal the natives on various distant planets....

Land on Dara? One might as well commit suicide! Untouchable, like the Darans - that's what they'd call Calhoun if he broke the quarantine. And they'd wipe him out on sight. But Dara needed him and that was the kind of challenge this Interstellar Med Serviceman would never dodge.

The sky was black, with myriads of stars. The ground was white. But it was not really ground at all, it was ice that covered everything—twenty miles north to the Barrier, and southward to the Pole itself, past towering mountains and howling emptiness and cold beyond imagining. The base was almost buried...

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 on a course he never could have imagined. This entertaining and engaging book is sure to please fans of golden-era SF.

In a far distant future mankind must cope with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and Man is now in the process of becoming acclimated to the change. Burl, our hero, must not only deal with the huge insects and the terror that they inspire but with a far greater...