Murray Leinster
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Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles.
Leinster c. 1953
Leinster's "Juju" was the cover story of The Thrill Book in October 1919.
Leinster's "The Fifth-Dimensional Catapult" was the cover story in the January 1931 Astounding Stories.
Leinster's "Planet of Sand" was cover-featured on the February 1948 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.
First Contact (novelette)
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"First Contact" is a 1945 science fiction novelette by American writer Murray Leinster, credited as one of the first instances of a universal translator in science fiction. It won a retro Hugo Award f
Murray Leinster
…long-term impact on other authors, for example Isaac Asimov's "Living Space", "The Red Queen's Race", and The End of Eternity. Leinster's 1945 novella "First Contact" is also credited as one of the first (if not the first) instances of a universal translator in science fiction. In 2000, Leinster's heirs sued Paramount…
First Contact cover