Talk:Murray Leinster

This text is copied literally from . Is this acceptable?

Since I created the entry for Leinster here and since I'm the webmaster and author of The Murray Leinster Website, I'm going to assume that it isn't an issue.

In a rational universe, that would make eminent sense, but in the labyrinthian passages of Wikipedia regulations there may be a yellowing parchment of proscriptions discountenancing material drawn from an article editor's own domain. JohndanR (talk) 04:14, 11 November 2017 (UTC) Reply

How should one pronounce "Murray"? Virant (talk) 20:43, 1 May 2013 (UTC) Reply

Rhymes with 'Hurry', thus: ['mʊ·ri] although some might end it with a light [e^y], the [e] part being briefer/weaker than the [y] off-glide.JohndanR (talk) 04:09, 11 November 2017 (UTC) Reply

The article currently contains this sentence claiming Leinster originated the parallel universe genre of stories: "Leinster is credited with the invention of parallel universe stories. Four years before Jack Williamson's The Legion of Time came out, Leinster published his "Sidewise in Time" in the June 1934 issue of Astounding."

However, the H. G. Wells parallel universe novel, Men Like Gods, was published in 1923, more than a decade earlier and it even uses the term "parallel universe". I suggest the above sentence be removed unless someone provides a citation or perhaps narrows the definition of what exactly Leinster is being credited with (maybe the first use of parallel universes in a pulp story?) Steevithak (talk) 19:42, 31 May 2016 (UTC) Reply

Ok, since no one seemed to object, I fixed this. It now says Leinster was an "early writer of" rather than "inventor of" parallel universe stories. Steevithak (talk) 19:24, 17 August 2016 (UTC) Reply

From his blog, http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-mainstream-murray-leinster.html

Introduction: Will Jenkins, Writing as Himself

 "I have a new theory about the natural structure of story," Will Jenkins said. I was in his house, Ardudwy, in Gloucester County, Virginia, along with a fellow student who was also a science fiction fan and an indulgent William and Mary professor who thought we’d get a kick out of meeting a real writer. "I think it goes back to caveman times. A bunch of hunters are sitting around a campfire and one of them says, ‘It was pretty clever of me, the way I killed that cave bear today. Of course, he had me down for a moment and I thought I was going to die. But then I came up with that trick.’" A pause. "‘When I left the camp this morning, I had no idea that...’" 

 Jenkins let his hypothetical narrator trail off, and laughed. 

 That was nearly half a century ago and I still cherish the memory of that one-time-only encounter with the man who, even then, was known chiefly for his seminal works of science fiction. 

I'll be back later to do something with this, but didn' t want to foget it. Memo to self, Pete Tillman (talk) 19:40, 16 March 2019 (UTC) Reply

I removed the "and alternate history literature" from the introduction: "writer of science fiction and alternate history literature", because alternate history of Leinster's kind is science fiction. Zaslav (talk) 08:23, 18 July 2020 (UTC) Reply

Moving this here from the section Bibliography, subsection Science fiction:

*Tunnel Through Time, Westminster Press, 1966.^[1]

Although the cited source does credit this title to the article subject, I cannot find any corroborating sources. In fact, everything I have found for the title Tunnel Through Time published by Westminster Press in 1966 is about this novel by Paul W. Fairman. It buggers logic that a publisher would release two novels with the same title in the same year by two different authors. This suggests the cited source is wrong. Don’t we need another source to confirm that such a title by Leinster exists? As I said, I have yet to find any, other than a couple of fansites (and more of the same that don’t include the title). 2603:9001:4500:1C09:4B7:71FD:D08:750E (talk) 13:14, 8 November 2024 (UTC) Reply