Out of This World (Leinster book)

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Out of This World
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First edition dust jacket
Author Murray Leinster
Cover artist Ric Binkley
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Avalon Books
Publication date
1958
Media typePrint
Pages221

Out of This World is a collection of three related science fiction stories by Murray Leinster, published by Avalon Books in 1958. The stories, all featuring "hillbilly polymath" Bud Gregory, [1] originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories over a four-month span in 1947, and are sometimes characterized as a novel. [2] A fourth story in the Gregory sequence, "The Seven Temporary Moons", was published in TWS in 1948, but has never been collected. All the stories originally carried the "William Fitzgerald" byline (a derivative of Leinster's birthname, William Fitzgerald Jenkins). [3]

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Reception

Damon Knight noted that "Leinster is ingenious in thinking up zany practical applications of slightly cockeyed principles," but concluded that "watching Gregory pull these things out of his hat one after another is wearisome; unlimited fantasy... is generally boring." [1] Floyd C. Gale called the book "a rampant spoof... staying just this side of slapstick. Nevertheless, it emerges more heavy-handed than most of his lighter works". [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "In The Balance", If, December 1958, p.112
  2. ISFDB listing
  3. ISFDB summary bibliography
  4. Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
  5. Gale, Floyd C. (October 1958). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy Science Fiction . p. 133.