Murray Leinster: Thing

“Desolate and dreary as the little town was in the world of today, it was infinitely more liveable than the same town of nearly two centuries before. There had been much progress in how to do things. It was regrettable that there was less progress in knowledge of things worth doing.”

Murray Leinster

Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 59).

World , Knowledge

“I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don’t you ever read about politics?”

Murray Leinster

Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 22).

Reading

“He signed himself prince of this, lord of that, baron of the other thing and claimant to the dukedom of something else.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 2

“Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as the other.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 3

World , Time

“It couldn’t happen! Hoddan couldn’t conceive of such a thing. But a recently developed pessimism suggested that since everything else, to date, had been to his disadvantage, this was probably a catastrophe also.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 5

“Twilight remained, a fairy half-light in which all things looked much more charming than they really were.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 7

Light