In the story, Leinster was decades ahead of his time in imagining the Internet. Murray Leinster's 1946 short story " A Logic Named Joe" contains one of the first descriptions of a computer (called a "logic") in fiction. The last story by Leinster in Analog was "Quarantine World" in the November 1966 issue, thirty-six years after his appearance in the premier January 1930 issue. Campbell era of higher writing standards, publishing over three dozen stories in Astounding and Analog under Campbell's editorship.
Leinster was one of the few science fiction writers from the 1930s to survive in the John W. In 2000, Leinster's heirs sued Paramount Pictures over the film Star Trek: First Contact, claiming that it infringed their trademark in the term. Leinster's 1945 novella " First Contact" is also credited as one of the first (if not the first) instances of a universal translator in science fiction.
Leinster's vision of extraordinary oscillations in time ('sidewise in time') had a long-term impact on other authors, for example Isaac Asimov's " Living Space", " The Red Queen's Race", and The End of Eternity.
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. Leinster was an early writer of parallel universe stories. He continued to appear frequently in other genre pulps such as Detective Fiction Weekly and Smashing Western, as well as Collier's Weekly beginning in 1936 and Esquire starting in 1939. In the 1930s, he published several science fiction stories and serials in Amazing and Astounding Stories (the first issue of Astounding included his story "Tanks"). Leinster's first science fiction story, " The Runaway Skyscraper", appeared in the Februissue of Argosy, and was reprinted in the June 1926 issue of Hugo Gernsback's first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. When the pulp magazines began to diversify into particular genres in the 1920s, Leinster followed suit, selling jungle stories to Danger Trails, westerns to West and Cowboy Stories, detective stories to Black Mask and Mystery Stories, horror stories to Weird Tales, and even romance stories to Love Story Magazine under the pen name Louisa Carter Lee. He continued to appear regularly in Argosy into the 1950s. During and after World War I, he began appearing in pulp magazines like Argosy, Snappy Stories, and Breezy Stories. Over the next three years, Leinster published ten more stories in the magazine. Mencken's literary magazine The Smart Set. He began his career as a freelance 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. Although both parents were born in Virginia, the family lived in Manhattan in 1910, according to the 1910 Federal Census. Leinster was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of George B.
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