But it was true! Joe and his crew were locked out of the Space Platform. “My God, we’ve been locked out!” Through the transparent domes of their space helmets, Joe could see a look of horror and disbelief pass across Haney’s face. Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank. A bold attempt is made to hijack $5 million in diamonds from the mine.īy Murray Leinster Read by Mark Douglas Nelsonġ1 Zipped MP3s or Podcast – 6 Hours 18 Minutes A mining colony on the moon is home to a murderer and to his victim who is slowly recovering memories lost when he was left for dead. 39 Minutes įrom Astounding Science Fiction, September 1955. Leinster was also the inventor of the video special effects process known as front projection.ġ | MP3| – Approx. He won a Hugo Award for his 1956 story Exploration Team. Another Leinster classic, his 1945 novella First Contact, plowed new ground with the subgenre of “first contact” stories and also posited the handy SF device called the ‘universal translator.’ His 1946 story, A Logic Named Joe not only describes a personal computer, but also a primitive internet. His classic story about parallel universes, Sidewise in Time, was first published in the June 1934 issue of Astounding. Leinster is credited with the invention of ‘parallel universe’ stories. Leinster’s first SF story was The Runaway Skyscraper which appeared in the Februissue of Argosy. He had an extensive career that spanned writing and inventing for film, radio, television and print.
MURRAY LEINSTER (1896 – 1975) was the nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American Science Fiction and Mystery writer and inventor.
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