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GREAT STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION (321 pp.) - Edited by Murray Leinster-Random House...
...hand at writing science fiction once described the formula: first get your characters into a mess, then grab a handful of electrons and get them out of it. In the opinion of Murray Leinster (real name: Will F. Jenkins), dean of U.S. science fictioneers, the formula has been badly overworked. He is tired of galactic worlds, space ships, bug-eyed monsters and the few thousand rabid fans who cry for them. Along with most book publishers, he would like to see "SF" go respectable, or at least sensible, keep one foot and preferably two on the ground-and even...
Space Operas & Utopia. The four founding fathers of "science fiction" are generally acknowledged to be Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells. In the U.S., Will F. Jenkins, a 27-year veteran, who also writes under the pen name of Murray Leinster, is regarded as the dean of writers in the field. Best of the lot, according to expert editors, are Robert Heinlein and A. E. van Vogt...
...enough to make a decent Irishman gag. There she sat, "the ould bitch," on the lawn of Leinster House itself, right in front of the main entrance to the Dail; and there she had been sitting for 41 years. Even worse than the statue of Victoria was the tablet underneath, inscribed from the old Queen's loyal "Irish subjects...
...Dail last week, up stood fiery young Deputy Con Lehane of Dublin. He asked Prime Minister John A. Costello if he was aware how the nation felt about having a "foreign monarch" on the Leinster House lawn. Costello made a careful reply: the statue would soon be removed; the deputies needed more room to park their cars. It was anticipated, he said, that the removal would begin this month...