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Title: BEST OF M LEINSTER by John J. Pierce, Murray Leinster ISBN: 0-345-25800-2 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 March, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: The best of Murray Leinster - The US edition
Comment: There are two titles claiming to be the "Best of Murray Leinster"
and this is the better of the two (The other appeared in Britain and has only three stories in common with this book).
This book is/was part of a series of "Best of's" from Ballantine and forms a good introduction into the work of Will F. Jenkins, who wrote SF under the pseudonym Murray Leinster. The stories range from as early as 1934 (The famous "Sidewise in Time", about alternate history lines parallel to ours) till 1956 ("Critical Difference") and amongst them are classics as "First Contact", ground for an idealogical flap with Soviet writer Yefremov back in 1959, and "A Logic Named Joe".
The book shows Murray Leinster at his best, being the writer of entertaining short fiction. Compared to some other writers of his period his work hardly seem dated and considering that his earliest story was sold in 1919 (!) that's quite a compliment.