''Sidewise in Time'' is a 1950 collection of

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short stories by

Murray Leinster Murray Leinster () was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of List of science fiction authors, science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 ...

. It was first published by

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in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazines ''

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A Logic Named Joe "A Logic Named Joe" is a science fiction short story by American writer Murray Leinster, first published in the March 1946 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction''. (The story appeared under Leinster's real name, Will F. Jenkins. That issue of ''A ...

" * "De Profundis" * "The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator" *
The Power

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declared ''Sidewise'' "a fine entertaining collection," although he dismissed "Proxima Centauri" as a "bottom of the trunk" piece."Book Reviews", ''

Astounding Science Fiction ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William C ...

'', February 1951, p.151

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