Murray Leinster : The Life and Works

Stallings, Billee J./ Evans, Jo-an J.

McFarland & Co Inc（2011/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 227 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786465040
• DDC分類 813.52

Full Description

Will F. Jenkins, known to science fiction fans by his penname Murray Leinster, was among the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. "The Dean of Science Fiction," as he was sometimes known, published more than 1,500 short stories and 100 books in a career spanning more than fifty years. This biography, written by his two youngest daughters, chronicles Murray Leinster's private and literary life from his first writings for The Smart Set and early pulp magazines such as Argosy, Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories, through the golden age of science fiction in the 1930s through the 1950s, to his death in 1975. Included as appendices are his famous 1946 story "A Logic Named Joe" and 1954 essay "To Build a Robot Brain."

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Foreword: The Dean Revisited by James Gunn     

Preface     

1. The Beginning: 1909     

2. A Southern Family     

3. The Early Days: 1910-1919     

4. Entering Science Fiction: 1919-1921     

5. Marriage: The 1920s     

6. The 1930s     

7. The New York Years: The 1940s     

8. The 1950s     

9. The 1960s     

10. After Mary's Death     

11. On Writing     

Appendix A. "A Logic Named Joe"     

Appendix B. "To Build a Robot Brain"     

Bibliography     

Index