First contacts the essential murray leinster leinster murray rico joe isbn 9780915368679 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. First contacts the essential murray leinster by murray leinster joe rico editor hal clement introduction 391 rating details 174 ratings 18 reviews a collection of the trend setting stories of the dean of science fiction which opened and explored such topics as first contact with aliens the internet transfers among parallel universes and many more this collection . Murray leinster is one of the great writers of science fiction from the pulp era his short stories are many and all are edged with very real possible futures his writing was superb and having read all his novels the chance to read a couple of short stories that have not been in an anthology was too good to pass up after reading first contacts i am sure you will go in search of his novels. The essential murray leinster first contacts the essential murray leinster contains 24 stories covering the full spectrum of leinsters career included are such classic early works as proxima centauri first contact and one of the earliest alternate timeline stories sidewise in time included are keyhole de profundis and a story