The Planet Explorer

by Murray Leinster

Overview

WORLDS
AND
WORLDS

Eons from now, MAN will hurtle through the void in gravity-defying ships across light years of distance to far-flung planets ... and more staggering yet, he will COLONIZE these Islands in the un- imaginably vast ocean of space. There will be worlds, and worlds, such as—

LANI III — a glacier-land warmed by man
XOSA II — a shining desert made green by man
LOREN II — on inferno of beasts, tamed by man

THE FASCINATING, HEROIC STORY OF A TRAIL-BLAZER TO THE UNKNOWN—outer-space service officer Bordman, who uses incredible knowledge and skill to make the star-flung outposts of civilization ready to receive new, vast surges of humanity!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823192156
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/05/2023
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

Leinster was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of George B. Jenkins and Mary L. Jenkins. His father was an accountant. Although both parents were born in Virginia, the family lived in Manhattan in 1910, according to the 1910 Federal Census. A high school dropout, he nevertheless began a career as a freelance writer before World War I. He was two months short of his 20th birthday when his first story, "The Foreigner", appeared in the May 1916 issue of H. L. Mencken's literary magazine "The Smart Set." Over the next three years, Leinster published ten more stories in the magazine; in a September 2022 interview, Leinster's daughter stated that Mencken recommended the use of a pseudonym for non-Smart Set content.