MURRAY LEINSTER: The Ultimate Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection (40+ Titles in One Edition)
40+ Golden Age Tales of Space, Alien Encounters, and InventionBy Murray Leinster
Length117h 44m
About this audiobook
MURRAY LEINSTER: The Ultimate Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection gathers more than forty works by one of American speculative fiction's most versatile craftsmen. Spanning interplanetary adventure, time travel, alternate history, scientific romance, and fantasy, the edition presents Leinster's characteristic fusion of brisk plotting, lucid prose, inventive extrapolation, and humane concern for ordinary people confronting extraordinary change. Its breadth places familiar pulp-era entertainments beside works of genuine conceptual importance, including stories that investigate parallel worlds, technological disruption, communication, and the ethical consequences of progress. Read collectively, these texts illuminate the evolution of science fiction from magazine adventure toward a more intellectually ambitious literature, while preserving the narrative momentum and sense of wonder associated with the genre's formative decades. Murray Leinster was the principal pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896–1975), a remarkably prolific American author whose career extended across popular fiction, science fiction, fantasy, radio, and television writing. Publishing during the genre's crucial twentieth-century expansion, he helped shape its vocabulary and conventions while remaining attentive to character, dialogue, and social consequence. His experience writing for mass audiences encouraged a practical, accessible style, but his imagination repeatedly anticipated modern concerns about networks, automation, scientific power, and fractured realities. This substantial collection is recommended to readers seeking both an enjoyable survey of classic speculative fiction and a historically revealing portrait of the genre's development. It offers newcomers an inviting introduction to Leinster's range and gives experienced readers an opportunity to reconsider a major, sometimes underappreciated figure whose ideas remain remarkably readable and resonant.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (18)
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GenreScience Fiction
Length117 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 14, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated)
26Chapter 1
2Novels & Novellas
27Chapter 2
3Part 1
28Chapter 3
4I
29Chapter 4
5II
30Chapter 5
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6III
31Chapter 6
7IV
32Chapter 7
8V
33Chapter 8
9Part 2
34Chapter 9
10VI
35Chapter 10
11VII
36The Forgotten Planet
12VIII
37Nature's Mislead Madhouse!
13IX
38About the characters in this book:
14X
39Prologue
15Part 3
401. Mad Planet
16XI
412. A Man Escapes
17XII
423. The Purple Hills
18XIII
434. A Killer of Monsters
19XIV
445. Meat of Man's Killing!
20Part 4
456. Red Dust
21XV
467. Journey Through Death
22XVI
478. A Flight Continues
23XVII
489. There Is Such a Thing as Sunshine
24XVIII
4910. Men Climb Up to Savagery
25The Wailing Asteroid
5011. Warm Blood Is a Bond
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