Murray Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe" (collection, free): Annotated table of contents & review
A very good online collection with 3 short stories & 3 novels, plus an introduction to author by Barry N Malzberg. I've read each of the 3 shorts, I would rate each of them an A.
Table of contents (6 stories, best first, unread last).
- [ss] "A Logic Named Joe" (as by Will L Jenkins) (A); download text or MP3 (dramatized); Astounding, March 1946; humor: Exploits of a super-intelligent AI, but one without human ethics or morals.
- [ss] "Dear Charles" (A); download; Murray Leinster (Ed)'s "Twists in Time", Avon Books, 1960; humor: A young man's girlfriend is also his great-great-...-grandmother!
- [ss] "The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator" (A); download; Astounding, December 1935; humor: Very interesting implications of ability to pull a physical object from a different time into the present, & vice-versa.
- [novel] "Gateway to Elsewhere" (B); download; as a double novel by Ace Books, 1954; adventure, parallel universe: What if djinns actually existed!
- [novel] "The Duplicators" (A); download; as a double novel by Ace Books, 1964: Social implications of material duplication technology.
- [novel] "The Pirates of Zan" (A); download; Astounding, February/March/April 1959; space opera: A young man's struggle to up his social station.
Fact sheet.
First published: June 2005 (Baen Books).Compiled by: Eric Flint.
Legend: ss = short story.
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