num_pages: 464
description: "First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster" contains 24 stories covering the full spectrum of Leinster's 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 written in 1945 that anticipated the internet, "A Logic named Joe." The Hugo Award-winning "Exploration Team" was the inspiration for our full-color cover art by Hannibal King. Also, here for the first time are "The Great Catastrophe," his lost pulp epic, and the inspiring "To All Fat Policemen." There is a four-page introduction by Hal Clement.
language: English
title: First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster
titlecomplete: First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Aliens, Space, Classics, Novella
ratings_count: 188
publisher: NESFA Press