appeared in the 1950ΓÇÖs: ΓÇ£First ContactΓÇ¥ (1945), ΓÇ£Doomsday DeferredΓÇ¥ (1949), ΓÇ£The Lonely PlanetΓÇ¥ (1949), ΓÇ£If You Was a MoklinΓÇ¥ (1951), and ΓÇ£Exploration TeamΓÇ¥ (1956). The latter tale earned Leinster the 1956 Hugo for Best Novelette. LeinsterΓÇÖs finest work from this period are collected in J. J. PierceΓÇÖs The Best of Murray Leinster (1978). Because of the Second World War, much of his work did not reach book form until after 1945. Among those first notable books was The Murder of the USA, a 1946 scifi mystery about who dropped 300 atomic bombs on the U.S. In almost all of LeinsterΓÇÖs longer writings, the universe serves as the backdrop for scoundrels and engineers to work their schemes and for stereotypical, fairly
