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Cover art: Kurt Miller
Blurb: “ALTRUISTIC SPACE PIRATES, NUCLEAR-POWERED DJINN, A TIME-TRAVELLING KANGAROO-AND MORE ..•
Three complete novels of humorous adventure, one of them a Hugo Award finalist, plus a trio of witty short stories with the distinctive Leinster touch.
The Pirates of Zan-When a young man is jailed unjushy, he is given a secret offer-in return for help in escaping, he must shake up the staid galactic establishment. He succeeds beyond anyone's wildest expectations, becoming the deadliest do-gooder in the galaxy.
Gateway to Elsewhere-Suppose that somewhere the world of the Arabian Nights is real, including very powerful and dangerous djinns, who are nothing like Aladdin's big blue pal. A man from our world wouldn't have a chance against them... or would he?
The Duplicators-A planet with machines which can duplicate anything would be the wealthiest world in the galoy, right? Wrong. And unless the hapless voyager who's trapped on the planet can find a solution to its problem, his voyaging will be ow
-permanently.
Plus three short stories, including "A Logic Named joe," an uncannily prophetic story of home computers and ine internet-written in 1946!
"Murray Leinster was not only a very good writer, he was a pio-neer. He invented the field of parallel-universe stories with his
"Sidewise in Time," and his "First Contact" set the pattern for all the stories that followed of-well-of first contact with alien civi-lizations. The wondrous thing about his work is that those great, trend-setting stories read as fresh and timely as they did all those years ago." —Frederik Pohl”