Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a

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of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of

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. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

Writing career

Leinster was born in

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, the son of George B. Jenkins and Mary L. Jenkins. His father was an accountant. Although both parents were born in Virginia, the family lived in Manhattan in 1910, according to the 1910 Federal Census. A high school dropout, he nevertheless began a career as a freelance writer before

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. He was two months short of his 20th birthday when his first story, "The Foreigner", appeared in the May 1916 issue of H. L. Mencken's literary magazine ''

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''. Over the next three years, Leinster published ten more stories in the magazine; in a September 2022 interview, Leinster's daughter stated that Mencken recommended the use of a pseudonym for non-''Smart Set'' content.Science Fiction Book Club: Interview with Steven Silver and Billee Stallings (Sept. 2022)
archived at the Middletown, PA Public Library; retrieved October 4, 2022 During World War I, Leinster served with the

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and the

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(1917–1918). During and after the war, he began appearing in

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s like '' Argosy'', '' Snappy Stories'', and ''

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''. He continued to appear regularly in ''Argosy'' into the 1950s. When the pulp magazines began to diversify into particular genres in the 1920s, Leinster followed suit, selling jungle stories to ''Danger Trails'', westerns to ''West'' and ''Cowboy Stories'', detective stories to '' Black Mask'' and ''Mystery Stories'', horror stories to ''

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'', and even romance stories to '' Love Story Magazine'' under the pen name Louisa Carter Lee. Leinster's first science fiction story, " The Runaway Skyscraper", appeared in the February 22, 1919 issue of ''Argosy'', and was reprinted in the June 1926 issue of Hugo Gernsback's first science fiction magazine, ''

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''. In the 1930s, he published several science fiction stories and serials in ''Amazing'' and ''

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'' (the first issue of ''Astounding'' included his story "Tanks"). He continued to appear frequently in other genre pulps such as ''Detective Fiction Weekly'' and ''Smashing Western'', as well as ''

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'' beginning in 1936 and ''

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'' starting in 1939. Leinster was an early writer of parallel universe stories. Four years before

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's ''The Legion of Time'' came out, Leinster published his " Sidewise in Time" in the June 1934 issue of ''Astounding''. Leinster's vision of extraordinary oscillations in time ('sidewise in time') had a long-term impact on other authors, for example

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's " Living Space", " The Red Queen's Race", and ''

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''.

Leinster's 1945 novella " First Contact" is also credited as one of the first (if not the first) instances of a

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in science fiction. In 2000, Leinster's heirs sued

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over the film '' Star Trek: First Contact'', claiming that it infringed their

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in the term. However, the suit was dismissed. Leinster was one of the few science fiction writers from the 1930s to survive in the

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era of higher writing standards, publishing over three dozen stories in ''Astounding'' and ''Analog'' under Campbell's editorship. The last story by Leinster in ''Analog'' was "Quarantine World" in the November 1966 issue, thirty-six years after his appearance in the premier January 1930 issue. Murray Leinster's 1946 short story "

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" contains one of the first descriptions of a computer (called a "logic") in fiction. In the story, Leinster was decades ahead of his time in imagining the

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. He envisioned logics in every home, linked through a distributed system of servers (called "tanks"), to provide communications, entertainment, data access, and commerce; one character says that "logics are civilization." During

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, he served in the

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. After the war, when both his name and the pulps had achieved a wider acceptance, he would use either "William Fitzgerald", "Fitzgerald Jenkins" or "Will F. Jenkins" as names on stories when "Leinster" had already sold a piece to a particular issue. Leinster was so prolific a writer that Groff Conklin, when reviewing '' Operation: Outer Space'' in March 1955, noted that it was his fourth novel of 1954 and that another would be reviewed in the next month. Leinster continued publishing in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in ''

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'' and ''

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'', as well as ''

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''. He won a

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for his 1956 story "

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". Leinster's career also included tie-in fiction based on several science fiction TV series: an episodic 1960 novel, '' Men into Space'', was derived from the series' basic concepts, but Leinster had little knowledge of the series' actual content, and none of the book episodes bear any relationship to the filmed episodes. ''Men Into Space'' was followed, seven years later, by two original novels based on ''

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'' (1967), and three based on '' Land of the Giants'' (1968–69).

Other endeavors

Leinster was also an inventor under his real name of William F. Jenkins, best known for the front projection process used in special effects. He appeared in September 1953 on an episode of the educational series ''

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'', in which he discussed the possibility of space travel.

Pseudonym

"Murray" is a reference to Leinster's mother's maiden name ("Murry"), while "Leinster" alluded to the connection between his middle name ("Fitzgerald") and the Dukes of Leinster.

Personal life

In 1921, he married Mary Mandola. They had four daughters.

Honors and awards

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(1937) for "A Very Nice Family", first published in the January 2, 1937 issue of ''Liberty Magazine''. *

(1956) for Best Novelette for "

". *

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(1996) for Best Novelette for " First Contact". * Guest of Honor at Discon I, the 21st

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in 1963. * The Sidewise Award for Alternate History (established in 1995) is named after Leinster's story "Sidewise in Time." * In the 1979 American film ''

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'', the spaceship in the opening sequence is called the ''Murray Leinster''. * In Virginia, June 27, 2009, was designated Will F. Jenkins Day in honor of his achievements in science fiction.

Bibliography

Novels

Far East

''Sword of Kings'', John Long, 1933.

Mystery

*''Scalps'', Brewer & Warren, 1930. (also known as ''Wings of Chance'') *'' Murder Madness'', Brewer & Warren, 1931; first serialized in '' Astounding'', May - August 1930. *''Murder Will Out'' (as Will F. Jenkins), John Hamilton, 1932. *''No Clues'' (as Will F. Jenkins), Wright & Brown, 1935. *''Murder in the Family'' (as Will F. Jenkins), John Hamilton, 1935; first appeared in ''Complete Detective Novels'', April 1934. *''The Man Who Feared'' (as Will F. Jenkins), Gateway, 1942; first serialized in ''Detective Fiction Weekly'', August 9–30, 1930.

Romance

as Louisa Carter Lee *''Her Desert Lover: A Love Story'', Chelsea House 1925. *''Her Other Husband: A Love Story'', Chelsea House 1929. *''Love and Better: A Love Story'', Chelsea House 1931. Famous fantastic mysteries 194802

Science fiction

*'' The Murder of the U.S.A.'' (as Will F. Jenkins), Crown, 1946. *'' Fight for Life'', Crestwood, 1949. *'' The Last Spaceship'' (novel), Frederick Fell, Inc., 1952? *'' Space Platform'',

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, February 1953. *'' Space Tug'',

, 1953 *''

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'', Galaxy, 1954; first appeared in ''Startling'', March 1949. *'' Gateway to Elsewhere'', Ace, 1954; first appeared as "Journey to Barkut" in ''Startling'', January 1952. *'' The Brain-Stealers'', Ace, 1954; first appeared as "The Man in the Iron Cap" in ''Startling'', November 1947. *'' Operation: Outer Space'',

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, 1954. *'' The Forgotten Planet'', Ace, 1954. *'' The Other Side of Here'', Ace, 1955; first serialized as ''The Incredible Invasion'' in ''Astounding'', August - December 1936. *'' The Planet Explorer'', Gnome Press; HUGO Award for best novel of the year, 1957. *'' City on the Moon'', Avalon, 1957. *'' War with the Gizmos'', Fawcett, 1958. *'' Four from Planet 5'', Fawcett, 1959; first appeared as "Long Ago, Far Away" in ''Amazing'', September 1959. *'' The Monster from Earth's End'', Fawcett, January 1959. *''

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'', Ace, 1959; first appeared as "Med Service" in ''Astounding'', August 1957. *''

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'', Ace, 1959; first serialized as ''The Pirates of Ersatz'' in ''Astounding'', February - April 1959. *'' Men Into Space'', Berkley, 1960; an episodic but original novel, based on the eponymous

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. *'' The Wailing Asteroid'', Avon, December 1960. Talents Incorporated book cover - Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins)

*''

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'', Berkley, 1961 (also known as ''The Listeners''). *'' This World is Taboo'', Ace, 1961; first appeared as "Pariah Planet" in ''Amazing'', July 1961. *''Operation Terror'', Berkley, 1962. *'' Talents Incorporated'', Avon, 1962. *''

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'', Berkley, May 1964; first serialized as ''Spaceman'' in ''Analog'', March - April 1964. *'' Time Tunnel'', Pyramid, July 1964. *''The Duplicators'', Ace, 1964; first appeared as "Lord of the Uffts" in ''Worlds of Tomorrow'', February 1964. *''The Greks Bring Gifts'', Macfadden, 1964. *''Invaders of Space'', Berkley, December 1964. *''Tunnel Through Time'', Westminster Press, 1966. *''Space Captain'', Ace, 1966; first serialized as ''Killer Ship'' in ''Amazing'', October - December. *''Checkpoint Lambda'', Berkley, 1966; first serialized as ''Stopover in Space'' in ''Amazing'', June - August 1966. *'' Miners in the Sky'', Avon, April 1967. *''Space Gypsies'', Avon, June 1967. *''

'', Pyramid, January 1967; original promotional novel based on the 1966–1967 U.S television series ''

'', a very different story than Leinster's 1964 novel of the same name. *''The Time Tunnel: Timeslip!'', Pyramid, July 1967; original novel based on the television series. *''Land of the Giants'', Pyramid, September 1968; original novel based on

, reinventing the origin story. *''Land of the Giants 2: The Hot Spot'', Pyramid, April 1969; original novel based on the television series. *''Land of the Giants 3: Unknown Danger'', Pyramid, September 1969; original novel based on the television series. *''Politics'', in ''Amazing Stories'', No. 6, June 1932

Western

*''The Gamblin' Kid'' (as Will F. Jenkins), A. L. Burt, 1933; first appeared in ''Western Action Novels'', March 1937. *''Mexican Trail'' (as Will F. Jenkins), A. L. Burt, 1933. *''Outlaw Sheriff'' (as Will F. Jenkins), King, 1934. *''Fighting Horse Valley'' (as Will F. Jenkins), King, 1934. *''Kid Deputy'' (as Will F. Jenkins), Alfred H. King, 1935; first serialized in ''Triple-X Western'', February - April 1928. *''Black Sheep'' (as Will F. Jenkins), Julian Messer, 1936. *''Guns for Achin'' (as Will F. Jenkins), Wright & Brown, 1936; first appeared in ''Smashing Novels'', November 1936. *''Wanted Dead or Alive!'', Quarter Books, 1949; first serialized in ''Triple-X Magazine'', February - May 1929. *''Outlaw Guns'', Star Books, 1950. *''Son of the Flying 'Y' ''(as Will F. Jenkins), Fawcett, 1951. *''Cattle Rustlers'' (as Will F. Jenkins), Ward Lock, 1952. *''Dallas'' (as Will F. Jenkins), Fawcett, 1950. Novelization of screenplay by John Twist.

Story collections

*''The Last Space Ship'', Fell, 1949. **"The Boomerang Circuit", ''Thrilling Wonder'', June 1947 **"The Disciplinary Circuit", ''Thrilling Wonder'', Winter 1946 **"The Manless Worlds", ''Thrilling Wonder'', February 1947 *'' Sidewise in Time'',

, 1950. **" Sidewise in Time", ''Astounding'', June 1934 **"

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", ''Astounding'', March 1935 **"

" (as Will F. Jenkins), ''Astounding'', March 1946 **"De Profundis", ''Thrilling Wonder'', Winter 1945 **"The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator", ''Astounding'', December 1935 *
Power
, ''Astounding'', September 1945 *'' The Forgotten Planet'', Gnome Press, 1954. **"The Mad Planet", '' Argosy'', June 12, 1920 **"The Red Dust", ''

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'', April 2, 1921 **"Nightmare Planet", ''Science Fiction Plus'', June 12, 1952 *''

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'', Gnome Press, 1957 (also known as ''The Planet Explorer''). **"Solar Constant", ''Astounding'', July 1956 as "Critical Difference" **"Sand Doom", ''Astounding'', December 1955 **"Combat Team", ''Astounding'', March 1956 as "Exploration Team" **"The Swamp Was Upside Down", ''Astounding'', September 1956 * ''Out of This World'', Avalon, 1958. **"The Deadly Dust" (as William Fitzgerald), ''Thrilling Wonder'', August 1947 **"The Gregory Circle" (as William Fitzgerald), ''Thrilling Wonder'', April 1947 **"The Nameless Something" (as William Fitzgerald), ''Thrilling Wonder'', June 1947 *''Monsters and Such'', Avon, 1959. **"The Castaway", ''Argosy'', September 1946 **"De Profundis", ''Thrilling Wonder'', Winter 1945 **"If You Was a Moklin", ''Galaxy'', September 1951 **"The Lonely Planet", ''Thrilling Wonder'', December 1949 **"Nobody Saw the Ship", ''Future'', May–June 1950 **"

", ''Astounding'', March 1935 **"The Trans-Human", ''Science Fiction Plus'', December 1953 *''Twists in Time'', Avon, 1960. **"Rogue Star", first publication **"Dear Charles", ''Fantastic'', May 1953 **"Dead City", ''Thrilling Wonder'', Summer 1946 as "Malignant Marauder" **"Sam, This Is You", ''Galaxy'', May 1955 **"The Other Now", ''Galaxy'', March 1951 **"The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator", ''Astounding'', December 1935 **"The End", ''Thrilling Wonder'', December 1946 *''The Aliens'', Berkley, March 1960. **"The Aliens", ''Astounding'', August 1959 **"Fugitive From Space", ''Amazing'', May 1954 **"Anthopological Note", ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'', April 1957 **"The Skit-Tree Planet", ''Thrilling Wonder'', April 1947 as "Skit-Tree Planet" **"Thing from the Sky", first publication *''Doctor to the Stars'', Pyramid, March 1964. **"The Grandfathers' War", ''Astounding'', October 1957 *
Med Ship Man
, ''Galaxy'', October 1963 **"Tallien Three", ''Analog'', August 1963 as "The Hate Disease" *''S.O.S. from Three Worlds'', Ace, 1966. **"Plague on Kryder II", ''Analog'', December 1964 **"Ribbon in the Sky", ''Astounding'', June 1957 **"Quarantine World", ''Analog'', November 1966 *''Get Off My World!'', Belmont, April 1966. **"Second Landing", ''Thrilling Wonder'', Winter 1954 **"White Spot", ''Startling'', Summer 1955 **"Planet of Sand", ''Famous Fantastic Mysteries'', February 1948 *''Explorers of Space,'' edited by Robert Silverberg, Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1975 **"Exploration Team", 1956 *'' The Best of Murray Leinster'', edited by Brian Davis, Corgi, 1976. **"Time to Die", ''Astounding'', January 1947 **"The Ethical Equations", ''Astounding'', June 1945 **"Symbiosis", ''Collier's'', June 14, 1947 *
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, ''Astounding'', October 1945 **"De Profundis", ''Thrilling Wonder'', Winter 1945 **"Pipeline to Pluto", ''Astounding'', August 1945 *
Sam, This Is You
, ''Galaxy'', May 1955 **"The Devil of East Lupton", ''Thrilling Wonder'', August 1948 as "The Devil of East Lupton, Vermont" **"Scrimshaw", ''Astounding'', September 1955 **"If You Was a Moklin", ''Galaxy'', September 1951 *'' The Best of Murray Leinster'', edited by John J. Pierce, Del Rey, April 1978. **" Sidewise in Time", ''Astounding'', June 1934 **"

", ''Astounding'', March 1935 **"The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator", ''Astounding'', December 1935 **" First Contact", ''Astounding'', May 1945 **"The Ethical Equations", ''Astounding'', June 1945 **"Pipeline to Pluto", ''Astounding'', August 1945 **"The Power", ''Astounding'', September 1945 **"

" (as Will F. Jenkins), ''Astounding'', March 1946 **"Symbiosis", ''Collier's'', June 14, 1947 **"The Strange Case of John Kingman", ''Astounding'', May 1948 **"The Lonely Planet", ''Thrilling Wonder'', December 1949 **"Keyhole", ''Thrilling Wonder'', December 1951 **"Critical Difference", ''Astounding'', July 1956 (also known as "Solar Constant") *''The Med Series'', Ace, May 1983. **"The Mutant Weapon", ''Astounding'', August 1957 as "Med Service" **"Plague on Kryder II", ''Analog'', December 1964 **"Ribbon in the Sky", ''Astounding'', June 1957 **"Quarantine World", ''Analog'', November 1966 **"This World is Taboo", ''Amazing'', July 1961 as "Pariah Planet" *''First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster'', edited by Joe Rico, NESFA, 1998. **"

" (as Will F. Jenkins), ''Astounding'', March 1946 **"If You Was a Moklin", ''Galaxy'', September 1951 **"The Ethical Equations", ''Astounding'', June 1945 **"Keyhole", ''Thrilling Wonder'', December 1951 **"Doomsday Deferred", ''The Saturday Evening Post'', September 24, 1949 **" First Contact", ''Astounding'', May 1945 **"Nobody Saw the Ship", ''Future'', May–June 1950 **"Pipeline to Pluto", ''Astounding'', August 1945 **"The Lonely Planet", ''Thrilling Wonder'', December 1949 **"De Profundis", ''Thrilling Wonder'', Winter 1945 **"The Power", ''Astounding'', September 1945 **"The Castaway", ''Argosy'', September 1946 **"The Strange Case of John Kingman", ''Astounding'', May 1948 **"

", ''Astounding'', March 1935 **"The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator", ''Astounding'', December 1935 **"Sam, This Is You", ''Galaxy'', May 1955 **"Sidewise in Time", ''Astounding'', June 1934 **"Scrimshaw", ''Astounding'', September 1955 **"Symbiosis", ''Collier's'', June 14, 1947 **"Cure for Ylith", ''Startling Stories'', November 1949 **"Plague on Kryder II", ''Analog'', December 1964 **"Exploration Team", ''Astounding'', March 1956 (also known as "Combat Team") **"The Great Catastrophe", first publication **"To All Fat Policemen", first publication *''Med Ship'', edited by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon, Baen, June 2002. **"Med Ship Man", ''Galaxy'', October 1963 **"Plague on Kryder II", ''Analog'', December 1964 **"The Mutant Weapon", ''Astounding'', August 1957 as "Med Service" **"Ribbon in the Sky", ''Astounding'', June 1957 **"Tallien Three", ''Analog'', August 1963 as "The Hate Disease" **"Quarantine World", ''Analog'', November 1966 **"The Grandfathers' War", ''Astounding'', October 1957 **"Pariah Planet", ''Amazing'', July 1961 (also known as ''This World is Taboo'') *''Planets of Adventure'', edited by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon, Baen, October 2003. **'' The Forgotten Planet'' ***"The Mad Planet", ''Argosy'', June 12, 1920 ***"The Red Dust", ''Argosy'', April 2, 1921 ***"Nightmare Planet", ''Argosy'', June 12, 1952 **'' The Planet Explorer'' (also known as ''Colonial Survey'') ***"Solar Constant", ''Astounding'', July 1956 as "Critical Difference" ***"Sand Doom", ''Astounding'', December 1955 ***"Combat Team", ''Astounding'', March 1956 as "Exploration Team" ***"The Swamp Was Upside Down", ''Astounding'', September 1956 **"Anthopological Note", ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'', April 1957 **"Scrimshaw", ''Astounding'', September 1955 **"Assignment on Pasik", ''Thrilling Wonder'', February 1949 **"Regulations", ''Thrilling Wonder'', August 1948 **"The Skit-Tree Planet", ''Thrilling Wonder'', April 1947 as "Skit-Tree Planet" *''A Logic Named Joe'', edited by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon, Baen, June 2005. **"

" (as Will F. Jenkins), ''Astounding'', March 1946 **"Dear Charles", ''Fantastic'', May 1953 **''Gateway to Elsewhere'', Ace, 1954; first appeared as "Journey to Barkut" in ''Startling'', January 1952. **''The Duplicators'', Ace, 1964; first appeared as "Lord of the Uffts" in ''Worlds of Tomorrow'', February 1964. **"The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator", ''Astounding'', December 1935 **''The Pirates of Zan'', Ace, 1959; first serialized as ''The Pirates of Ersatz'' in ''Astounding'', February - April 1959. *''The Runaway Skyscraper and Other Tales from the Pulps'', Wildside Press, August 2007. **" The Runaway Skyscraper", ''Argosy'', February 22, 1919 **"The Gallery Gods", ''Argosy'', August 21, 1920 **"The Street of Magnificent Dreams", ''Argosy'', August 5, 1922 **"Nerve", ''Argosy'', June 4, 1921 **"Stories of the Hungry Country: The Case of the Dona Clotilde" **"Morale", ''Astounding'', December 1931 **"Grooves", ''Argosy'', October 12, 1918 **"Footprints in the Snow", ''All Story Weekly'', June 7, 1919

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