| Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster, Science Fiction, Adventure Contributor(s): Leinster, Murray (Author), Jenkins, William Fitzgerald (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598183990 ISBN-13: 9781598183993 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Jed Cochrane -- sophisticate in a world grown too crowded to breathe, newsman, interviewer, television personality -- begins this tale when he's sent on a wild goose chase (literally, to the moon) after the wayward son of one of his network's principals. But the path he follows will lead him to the stars -- and beyond them! * Murray Leinster published more than fifteen hundred stories in a life that lasted the best part of the 20th century -- from 1896 until 1975. He's remembered as a great deal less a writer than he was: he tells a thoughtful, stylish tale, and he tells it damned well. . . . |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 144 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Jed Cochrane -- sophisticate in a world grown too crowded to breathe, newsman, interviewer, television personality -- begins this tale when he's sent on a wild goose chase (literally, to the moon) after the wayward son of one of his network's principals. But the path he follows will lead him to the stars -- and beyond them * Murray Leinster published more than fifteen hundred stories in a life that lasted the best part of the 20th century -- from 1896 until 1975. He's remembered as a great deal less a writer than he was: he tells a thoughtful, stylish tale, and he tells it damned well. . . . |
Contributor Bio(s): Leinster, Murray: - "Murray Leinster (1896 - 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of science fiction and alternate history literature. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays. He began his career as a freelance writer before World War I; 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 The Smart Set. Over the next three years, Leinster published ten more stories in the magazine. During World War I, Leinster served with the Committee of Public Information and the United States Army (1917-1918). During and after the war, he began appearing in pulp magazines like Argosy, Snappy Stories and Breezy Stories. 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 Weird Tales and even romance stories to Love Story Magazine under the pen name Louisa Carter Lee." |
