WRITER

Murray Leinster

1896 - 1975

Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Murray Leinster has received more than 215,491 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Murray Leinster is the 4,027th most popular writer (down from 3,632nd in 2019), the 5,263rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,835th in 2019) and the 431st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

220k
Page Views (PV)
50.20
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
23
Languages Editions (L)
4.72
Effective Languages (L*)
2.86
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Notable Works

Operation

Incorrect title. See Operation: Outer Space elsewhere in the list of Leinster titles.

1954

Operation Terror

1962

Before the Golden Age

American Science fiction

Part one 1920 to 1930 -- Part two 1931 -- The man who evolved / Edmond Hamilton -- The Jameson Satellite / Neil R. Jones -- Submicroscopic / Capt. S.P. Meek -- Awlo of Ulm / Capt. S.P. Meek -- Tetrahedra of space / P. Schuyler Miller -- The world of the red Sun / Clifford D. Simak -- Part three 1932 -- Tumithak of the corridors / Charles R. Tanner -- The Moon era / Jack Williamson -- Part four 1933 -- The man who awoke / Laurence Manning -- Tumithak in Shawm / Capt. Charles R. Tanner -- Part five 1934 -- Colossus / Donald Wandrei -- Born of the Sun / Jack Williamson -- Sidewise in time / Murray Leinster -- Old Faithful / Raymond Z. Gallun -- Part six 1935 -- The parasite planet / Stanley G. Weinbaum -- Proxima Centauri / Murray Leinster -- The accursed galaxy / Edmond Hamilton -- Part seven 1936 -- He who shrank / Henry Hasse -- The human pets of Mars / Leslie Frances Stone -- The brain stealers of Mars / John W. Campbell, Jr. -- Devolution / Edmond Hamilton -- Big game / Isaac Asimov -- Part eight 1937 -- Other eyes watching / John W. Campbell, Jr. -- Minus planet / John D. Clark -- Past, present, and future / Nat Schachner -- Part nine 1938 -- The men and the mirror / Ross Rocklynne.

1974

The Hugo Winners

American Science fiction, Science fiction, Hugo awards

An Anthology of Hugo award winners. The highest prize in Sci-Fi. Each of these stories, by different authors, was voted as the best novella/short story of a particular year. Asimov was also the editor or something. I have read it and loved it. Science Fiction at it's best. Contains: 13th Convention (1955)-19th Convention (1961). The darfsteller / Walter M. Miller, Jr. -- Allamagoosa / Eric Frank Russell -- Exploration team / Murray Leinster -- The star / Arthur C. Clarke -- Or all the seas with oysters / Avram Davidson -- The big front yard / Clifford D. Simak -- The hell-bound train / Robert Bloch -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- The longest voyage / Poul Anderson --

1962

This World Is Taboo

Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

1961

Space Tug

1953

Page views of Murray Leinsters by language

Over the past year Murray Leinster has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 22,357 views, followed by Russian (2,973), and Italian (2,560). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (115.84%), Catalan (72.46%), and Egyptian Arabic (60.94%)