Time to Die

(From the book "Solar Wind 2")
By : Deborah Susan Jones : Editor & Contributing writer
Time to Die
A short story by Murray Leinster written 1n
1947.
Leinster enjoyed playing with the idea of
time travel and in this story, a very clever murderer,
using time travel, sets out to avoid death row by
traveling back in time.
Born on 16th June 1896, and whose real name was William
Fitzgerald Jenkins, "Murray Leinster" was a extraordinarily
productive American writer and with at least 1,500 short
stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of
radio scripts and television plays to his name and was responsible for an
enormous creative output in the science
fiction field.
He died in June 1975 two years before Peter
created this painting for the cover for the Corgi
Books edition of "The Best of Murray
Leinster" edited by J.J. Pierce which contains the
story "Time to Die" and also appears in our own
anthology of Peter's Science Fiction works "Solar Wind 2".
Peter says >
"It was a privilege to paint an
interpretation of one of the stories in this collection
and I loved indulging in the sheer pulp magazine nature of
it!"
Deborah Susan Jones
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