![]() ![]() ![]() He would go on to sell detective, jungle, western, and horror stories to a variety of markets (including Weird Tales), even selling romance stories under the pen name of Louisa Carter Lee. Mencken’s literary magazine The Smart Set. But for those who may not recognize the name, here are but a few items of background to help familiarize yourselves with this most remarkable man.īorn in Virginia in June of 1896, Jenkins sold his first story “The Foreigner” while still 19. Longtime readers and SF aficionados know the name Murray Leinster and much of his illustrious history within the genre. As you might surmise, complications arise, some being those SF readers might expect from the paradoxes involved, but one ramification in particular surprises good old Sam–one he wishes he had never learned. One thing leads to another and before long old Sam has accidentally concocted a device, a strange new telephone which allows him to call himself from the future, and vice versa. Sam takes her advice and begins to study electronics. ![]() It tells the story of your average, good-natured fellow–a war vet now telephone lineman in an average job with an average life, whose girlfriend, Rosie, urges him to better himself. Galaxy magazine published “Sam, This Is You” in its May 1955 issue (cover at right). Murray Leinster was the pseudonym of Will F. ![]()
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