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Attention Saint Patrick is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Murray Leinster is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Murray Leinster then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Morale - A Story of the War of 1941-43 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Murray Leinster is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Murray Leinster then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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The radio and TV stations of the world carried the short terrifying statement: the four young visitors from another time, another planet, were telepaths! ... Read more

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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 expect a shipload of people stranded on such a world to survive, but humans are stubborn and resourceful. This is the story of their many-times descendants, and it's a great one. ... Read more

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The "Old Absurd" and the Return of Prometheus
Here is a pair of old Ace Double Novels that is something of a collector's item. The covers are appropriately dramatic. One shows a body wrapped completely in a brownish covering behing tossed in space out the airlock of a rocket with the name _Absyrtis_ emblazoned on its tailfin. The other shows a man dressed in a blue loincloth holding a pointed weapon in his hand facing a giant wasp on the attack.

Let us start with _Contraband Rocket_ (1956) by Lee Correy. "Lee Correy" was the pseudonym of the rocket engineer G. Harry Stine. Stine wrote fiction under his pseudonym and nonfiction (usually science) under his real name. (A similar case was the astronomer Robert S. Richardson who wrote fiction under the pseudonym "Philip Latham.")

I had read _Contraband Rocket_ a couple of times when I was in elementary school and enjoyed it. But that was mumbledy-mumble years ago. I felt obligated to reread the novel as a check against my youthful judgement. I found, to my surprise and pleasure, that it held up fairly well. It is certainly not great art. The characters are cardboard, and the style is plain; but there is a real enthusiasm for rockets and rocketry that carries the day.

Correy envisions a rather conformist society of the near future in which it is possible to be brainwashed. In spite of this risk, a group of social misfits get caught up in the dream of outfitting a rocket of their own and flying it to the Moon. Professional passenger spaceflight is a routine reality, but amateur flights are unknown. Correy has a good feel for the technology needed to do the job, how the husk of a ship would be stripped and rebuilt, what spare parts would be needed from rocket junk yards, how a rocket society can become an unlikely revolutionary group, how money would be raised, and what courtroom procedures and legal shenanigans the group would have to use.

There were some small details that I missed when I read the novel the first couple of times. Divorce is no longer a matter of separation. It usually ends with one person being declared "maladjusted" and then brainwashed to conform to the wishes and desires of the other spouse. And the old spaceman Luna Luis is the past recipiant of "the R.A. Heinlein Award for establishing the terra-luna schedules" (78). Few readers would have caught that joke in 1956, but a great many would understand it today.

The story is technically still in our future. It could happen yet, or at least something like it. Correy makes it clear that in the conflict between the professional and the amateur, he is firmly on the side of the amateurs-- the ones who still know how to dream. I give it a three star rating.

I am giving less attention to Murray Leinster's _The Forgotten Planet_ (1954), because I have reviewed it in more detail on another site. It is a mixture of stories from the 1920s and the 1950s. The style is in many ways rough and awkward. And yet the story has a curious kind of mythical drive. It features the leader of a primitive tribe on a planet of giant insects who becomes a kind of Prometheus figure as he discovers fire, weapons, and the other basic needs for civilization. By using the known behavior of insects, Leinster manages to create a convincing setting. I give it a four star rating.

All in all, a book worth your attention if you don't mind a couple of well-told but old-fashioned tales. ... Read more

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Space Platform is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Murray Leinster is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Murray Leinster then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Three tales of alien worlds
This is a collection of three novellas by Murray Leinster, the Dean of science fiction.Originally published in various science fiction magazines between 1948 and 1955, these stories were collected into one volume and published in 1966 under the title "Get Off My World!"

All three stories deal with humans landing on planets inhabited by alien races.The first story, "Second Landing", was first published in the Winter 1954 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories, and concerned an archeological expedition landing on a dead world whose civilization was destroyed by the inhabitants of a sister world.The archeologists think the sister world's inhabitants were also wiped out, but they're wrong.

The second story, "White Spot", was first published in the Summer 1955 issue of Startling Stories, and concerns a damaged spaceship which makes a forced landing on another world with a dead civilization.The mystery of what killed the civilization is soon solved, and proves to be still deadly.

The third story, "Planet of Sand", was first published in the February 1948 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, and concerns a starship crewman who is framed for dereliction of duty, then left marooned on a desert world that is home to a single, huge artifact.

The storytelling is competent, as is always the case with Leinster.If alien worlds featuring lost civilizations is your thing, then this is the book for you. ... Read more

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Long Ago, Far Away is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Murray Leinster is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Murray Leinster then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. The Unthinking Destroyer is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Rog Phillips is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Rog Phillips then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM
Book is printed like it was done by a first grader who didn't know how to use a word processor. Paragraphs are not set properly and words break in middle from line to line. NOT worth the money the supposed 'book' cost! ... Read more