Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over fifteen hundred short stories and articles, fourteen movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays. His first science fiction story, "The Runaway Skyscraper," appeared in the February 22, 1919 issue of Argosy, and he won a Hugo Award for his 1956 story "Exploration Team." He was also an inventor, best known for the front-projection process used in special effects. In Virginia, Jun
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The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the millennia the insects and plants grew to gigantic sizes. Th... SEE MORE