tailieunhanh - Operation Terror

On the morning the radar reported something odd out in space, Lockley awoke at about twenty minutes to eight. That was usual. He'd slept in a sleeping bag on a mountain-flank with other mountains all around. That was not unprecedented. He was there to make a base line measurement for a detailed map of the Boulder Lake National Park, whose facilities were now being built. Measuring a base line, even with the newest of electronic apparatus, was more or less a commonplace job for Lockley. This morning, though, he woke and realized gloomily that he'd dreamed about Jill Holmes again, which was becoming a habit he ought to break | feedboo is Operation Terror Leinster Murray Published 1962 Categorie s Fiction Science Fiction Source http 1 About Leinster Murray Leinster June 16 1896 - June 8 1975 was the nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins an American science fiction and alternate history writer. He was born in Norfolk Virginia. During World War I he served with the Committee of Public Information and the United States Army 1917-1918 . Following the war Leinster became a free-lance writer. In 1921 he married Mary Mandola. They had four daughters. During World War II he served in the Office of War Information. He won the Liberty Award in 1937 for A Very Nice Family the 1956 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Exploration Team a retro-Hugo in 1996 for Best Novelette for First Contact. Leinster was the Guest of Honor at the 21st Worldcon in 1963. In 1995 the Sidewise Award for Alternate History was established named after Leinster s story Sidewise in Time. Leinster wrote and published over 1 500 short stories and articles over the course of his career. He wrote 14 movie and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays inspiring several series including Land of the Giants and The Time Tunnel . Leinster first began appearing in the late 1910s in pulp magazines like Argosy and then sold to Astounding Stories in the 1930s on a regular basis. After World War II when both his name and the pulps had achieved a wider acceptance he would use either William Fitzgerald or Will F. Jenkins as names on stories when Leinster had already sold a piece to a particular issue. He was very prolific and successful in the fields of western mystery horror and especially science fiction. His novel Miners in the Sky transfers the lawless atmosphere of the California Gold Rush a common theme of Westerns into an asteroid environment. He is credited with the invention of parallel universe stories. Four years before Jack Williamson s The Legion of Time came out Leinster wrote his Sidewise in Time .