Hannibal King, a martial arts expert who lives in Dorchester, Massachusetts, has done extensive work in comics and collectible card games. You Speak Greek, Sam Ward, yet you speak it as a barbarian would. At first, he focuses on the money-making potential of his little scheme. In 1934, Murray Leinster published a short story that illustrates that tenet. As befits one of the few authors who wrote for both the early pulps and modem science fiction magazines, Leinster won both a Hugo (for 'Exploration Team') and a RetroHugo for 'First Contact'. What if you could talk to the version of you who existed ten days ago, or the you who will exist ten days in the future That's exactly what enterprising telephone lineman Sam Yoder figures out how to do in the surprisingly funny science-fiction story Sam, This Is You. You should feed your TV (or DVD player for that matter) to the nearest crocodile in a zoo - and go home to happily read stories like this one Mind you. He did take time out for the two World Wars and to invent the back-projector special effect for motion pictures, perhaps the earliest virtual reality device. Introduction to the Unpublished Stories by Joe Ricoīorn William Fitzgerald Jenkins in 1896, near Norfolk, Virginia, Murray Leinster worked almost exclusively as a writer of science fiction and mystery literature.Also, here for the first time are 'The Great Catastrophe,' his lost pulp epic, and the inspiring 'To All Fat Policemen.' There is a four-page introduction by renowned author Hal Clement.

Included are such classic early works as 'Proxima Centauri,' 'First Contact,' and one of the earliest alternate timeline stories, 'Sidewise in Time.' Included are 'Keyhole,' 'De Profundis,' and a story written in 1945 that anticipated the Internet, 'A Logic Named Joe.' The Hugo Award-winning 'Exploration Team' was the inspiration for our full-color cover art by Hannibal King.

Chaos again ensues, but in the midst of the mayhem, Leinster. First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster contains 24 stories covering the full spectrum of Leinster's career. In another time travel tale, Sam, This Is You, the eponymous Sam, a telephone lineman, receives a call from his future self.

Sam, This is You by Murray Leinster