The Runaway Skyscraper

The Runaway Skyscraper
Author: Murray Leinster
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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The Runaway Skyscraper

The Runaway Skyscraper
Author: Murray Leinster
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473227380

Arthur Chamberlain has problems. His one-man engineering firm is faltering and his pretty secretary Estelle barely notices him. But these problems are put aside when his Manhattan office building falls into the fourth dimension. Madison Square is filled with wigwams and it's up to Arthur to engineer a way to make his building to fall back to the future.

The Runaway Skyscraper

The Runaway Skyscraper
Author: Murray Leinster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2009-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781406549492

Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was the pseudonym of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movies and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays. Leinster began his career as a free-lance 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. His first science fiction story, The Runaway Skyscraper, appeared in the 1919 issue of Argosy. In the 1930s, he published several science fiction stories and serials in Amazing and Astounding Stories and continued to appear frequently in other genre pulps. Leinster is credited with the invention of parallel universe stories. Sidewise in Time was published in the June 1934 issue of Astounding. This was probably the first time that the concept of alternate worlds appeared in modern science fiction.

Science-fiction

Science-fiction
Author: Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 780
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780873386043

Complementing Science-Fiction: The Early Years, which surveys science-fiction published in book form from its beginnings through 1930, the present volume covers all the science-fiction printed in the genre magazines--Amazing, Astounding, and Wonder, along with offshoots and minor magazines--from 1926 through 1936. This is the first time this historically important literary phenomenon, which stands behind the enormous modern development of science-fiction, has been studied thoroughly and accurately. The heart of the book is a series of descriptions of all 1,835 stories published during this period, plus bibliographic information. Supplementing this are many useful features: detailed histories of each of the magazines, an issue by issue roster of contents, a technical analysis of the art work, brief authors' biographies, poetry and letter indexes, a theme and motif index of approximately 30,0000 entries, and general indexes. Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years is not only indispensable for reference librarians, collectors, readers, and scholars interested in science-fiction, it is also of importance to the study of popular culture during the Great Depression in the United States. Most of its data, which are largely based on rare and almost unobtainable sources, are not available elsewhere.

The Black Skyscraper

The Black Skyscraper
Author: Adrienne Brown
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421423839

A highly interdisciplinary work, The Black Skyscraper reclaims the influence of race on modern architectural design as well as the less-well-understood effects these designs had on the experience and perception of race.

Cityscapes of the Future

Cityscapes of the Future
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004361316

Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction offers an examination of the central role played by urban spaces in science fictional narratives in various media forms from the literary to the ludic to the cinematic. Our contributors reflect on the ways diverse urban scenarios are central to the narratives’ science fictional imaginary and consider the pivotal roles cityscapes play in underscoring major thematic concerns, such as political struggles, social inequality and other cultural epistemologies. The chapters in the collection are divided into three sections examining the city and the body, cities of estrangement, and cities of the imagination.

The Time Machine Hypothesis

The Time Machine Hypothesis
Author: Damien Broderick
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2019-07-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030161781

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality—time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film.

Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster
Author: Billee J. Stallings
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-08-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786487151

Will F. Jenkins, known to science fiction fans by his penname Murray Leinster, was among the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. "The Dean of Science Fiction," as he was sometimes known, published more than 1,500 short stories and 100 books in a career spanning more than fifty years. This biography, written by his two youngest daughters, chronicles Murray Leinster's private and literary life from his first writings for The Smart Set and early pulp magazines such as Argosy, Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories, through the golden age of science fiction in the 1930s through the 1950s, to his death in 1975. Included as appendices are his famous 1946 story "A Logic Named Joe" and 1954 essay "To Build a Robot Brain."

Time Machines

Time Machines
Author: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2001-04-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780387985718

This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more.

The Second Murray Leinster MEGAPACK®

The Second Murray Leinster MEGAPACK®
Author: Murray Leinster
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 1157
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1479407828

Murray Leinster (1896-1975) enjoyed a reputation as a top pulp fiction writer from the 1920s through the 1960s, publishing dozens of novels and more than a thousand short stories -- and not just in the science fiction field, as this collection shows. However, his greatest fame came from SF, and the Sidewise Award (for best alternate history work) is named after his story, "Sidewise in Time." Included in this volume are: PLANET OF DREAD THE WAILING ASTEROID THE FORGOTTEN PLANET ATTENTION SAINT PATRICK NIGHTMARE PLANET CREATURES OF THE ABYSS A MATTER OF IMPORTANCE THE PIRATES OF ERSATZ MORALE MURDER MADNESS THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER THE GALLERY GODS THE STREET OF MAGNIFICENT DREAMS NERVE STORIES OF THE HUNGRY COUNTRY GROOVES FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW EVIDENCE And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 260+ entries in the MEGAPACK® series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, author collections...and much, much more!