First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster

A collection of the trend-setting stories of "the Dean of Science Fiction" which opened and explored such topics as first contact with aliens, the Internet, transfers among parallel universes, and many more. This collection contains two stories not previously published, and it contains an introduction by Hal Clement, with cover art by Hannibal King.

Contents:

• Will by Hal Clement
• Editor's Introduction by Joe Rico
• A Logic Named Joe (as by Will F. Jenkins)
• If You Was a Moklin
• The Ethical Equations
• Keyhole
• Doomsday Deferred (as by Will F. Jenkins)
• First Contact
• Nobody Saw the Ship
• Pipeline to Pluto
• The Lonely Planet
• De Profundis
• The Power
• The Castaway
• The Strange Case of John Kingman
• Proxima Centauri
• The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator
• Sam, This Is You
• Sidewise in Time
• Scrimshaw
• Symbiosis (as by Will F. Jenkins)
• Cure for a Ylith (as by William Fitzgerald)
• Plague on Kryder II
• Exploration Team
• Introduction to the Unpublished Stories by Joe Rico
• The Great Catastrophe
• To All Fat Policemen