Murray Leinster - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

  • Liberty Award (1937) for "A Very Nice Family", first published in the January 2, 1937 issue of Liberty Magazine.
  • Hugo Award (1956) for Best Novelette for "Exploration Team".
  • Retro-Hugo (1996) for Best Novelette for "First Contact".
  • Guest of Honor at Discon I, the 21st Worldcon in 1963.
  • The Sidewise Award for Alternate History (established in 1995) is named after Leinster's story "Sidewise in Time."
  • In the 1979 Italian film Starcrash, the spaceship in the opening sequence is called the Murray Leinster.
  • In Virginia, 27 June 2009 was designated Will F. Jenkins Day in honor of his achievements in science fiction.

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