A Logic Named Joe Author:Murray Leinster, Eric Flint (Editor), Guy Gordon (Editor) Three complete novels, one of them a Hugo Award finalist, with a number of short stories. — The Pirates of Zan - When a young man is accused of being one of the Pirates of Zan and jailed unjustly, he is given a secret offer-in return for being permitted to "escape," he must shake up the establishment, which is getting s... more »et in its ways. He succeeds beyond anyone's wildest expectations, becoming not just a pirate, but the deadliest do-gooder in the galaxy.
Gateway to Elsewhere - Suppose that in another dimension, the world of the Arabian Nights is real, including very powerful and very dangerous djinns, who are nothing like Aladdin's big blue pal. A man from our world wouldn't have a chance against them . . . or, would he?
The Duplicators - A planet with a machine which can duplicate anything would be the wealthiest world in the galaxy, right? Wrong. And unless the hapless voyager who's trapped on the planet can find a solution to its problem, he isn't going to live to leave again.
Plus three short stories: A Logic Named Joe, an uncannily prophetic story of home computers and the Internet - written in 1946; Dear Charles; and The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator.« less
Entertaining, but unsophisticated, stories from the early days of sci-fi. If you've read some of Leinster's better stuff, it is interesting to compare how he matured from his earlier work.