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Jack Williamson

(John Stewart Williamson)

(1908 - 2006)
aka
Will Stewart

About Jack Williamson

Jack Williamson has been in the forefront of science fiction since his first published story in 1928. Williamson is the acclaimed author of such trailblazing science fiction as The Humanoids and The Legion of Time. The Oxford English Dictionary credits Williamson with inventing the terms "genetic engineering" (in Dragon's Island) and "terraforming" (in Seetee Ship). His seminal novel Darker Than You Think was a landmark speculation on the nature of shape-changing.

Jack Williamson died Friday 10th November at his home in Portales, New Mexico.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

With Folded Hands . . . And Searching Mind

Series

Legion of Space
1. The Legion of Space (1934)
2. The Cometeers (1936)
3. One against the Legion (1939)
4. The Queen of the Legion (1982)
Three from the Legion (omnibus) (1980)

Legion of Time
1. The Legion of Time (1938)
2. After World's End (1939)

Humanoids
1. The Humanoids (1949)
2. The Humanoid Touch (1980)

Seetee (writing as Will Stewart)
1. Seetee Shock (1950)
2. Seetee Ship (1951)

Undersea Eden (with Frederik Pohl)
1. Undersea Quest (1954)
2. Undersea Fleet (1955)
3. Undersea City (1958)
The Undersea Trilogy (omnibus) (1992)

Starchild (with Frederik Pohl)
1. The Reefs of Space (1964)
2. Starchild (1965)
3. Rogue Star (1969)
The Starchild Trilogy (omnibus) (1980)

Saga of Cuckoo (with Frederik Pohl)
1. Farthest Star (1975)
2. Wall Around a Star (1975)
The Saga of Cuckoo (omnibus) (1983)

Novels

The Alien Intelligence (1929)
The Green Girl (1930)
The Girl from Mars (1930) (with Miles J Breuer)
The Stone from the Green Star (1931)
Golden Blood (1933)
Xandulu (1934)
The Blue Spot (1935)
Islands of the Sun (1935)
The Fortress of Utopia (1939)
Realm of Wizardry (1940)
With Folded Hands (1947)
Darker Than You Think (1948)
Dragon's Island (1951)
aka The Not-Men
The Dome Around America (1955)
aka Gateway to Paradise
Star Bridge (1955) (with James E Gunn)
Wolves of Darkness (1958)
The Trial of Terra (1962)
The Reign of Wizardry (1964)
Bright New Universe (1967)
Trapped in Space (1968)
Jamboree (1969)
The Moon Children (1972)
The Power of Blackness (1975)
Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods (1979)
Manseed (1982)
Lifeburst (1984)
Firechild (1986)
Land's End (1988) (with Frederik Pohl)
Mazeway (1990)
The Singers of Time (1991) (with Frederik Pohl)
Beachhead (1992)
Demon Moon (1994)
The Black Sun (1997)
The Silicon Dagger (1999)
Terraforming Earth (2001)
The Stonehenge Gate (2005)

Omnibus

A Sense of Wonder (1967) (with Murray Leinster and John Wyndham)
The Humanoids / With Folded Hands (2002)

Collections

Lady in Danger (1945)
The Moon Era (1967) (with Murray Leinster and John Wyndham)
The Pandora Effect (1969)
People Machines (1971)
The Early Williamson (1975)
Dreadful Sleep (1977)
The Best of Jack Williamson (1978)
The Metal Man and Others: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume One (1984)
Wolves of Darkness: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Two (1999)
Wizard's Isle: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Three (2000)
Spider Island: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Four (2001)
Dragon's Island and Other Stories (2002)
Darker Than You Think and Other Novels (2003)
Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer Jack Williamson (2004)
The Crucible of Power: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Five (2006)
Gateway to Paradise 6: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six (2008)
With Folded Hands . . . And Searching Mind: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Seven (2010)

Non fiction

H. G. Wells: Critic of Progress (1973) (see H G Wells)
Teaching Science Fiction: Education for Tomorrow (1980)
Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction (1984)

Anthologies containing stories by Jack Williamson

Short stories

	The Metal Man (1928)
	The Cosmic Express (1930)
	The Moon Era (1931)
	Star Bright (1939)
	Hindsight (1940)
	Collision Orbit (1942) (writing as Will Stewart)
	Minus Sign (1942) (writing as Will Stewart)
	Opposites - React! (1943) (writing as Will Stewart)
	With Folded Hands... (1947)
	The Man from Outside (1951)
	Beans (1958)
	Rogue Star (part 2) (1968) (with Frederik Pohl)
	Rogue Star (part 3) (1968) (with Frederik Pohl)
	Jamboree (1969)
	The Highest Dive (1976)
	The Humanoid Universe (1980)
	The Firefly Tree (1997)
	The Pet Rocks Mystery (1998)
	Eden Star (2000)
	The Ultimate Earth (2000)		Hugo

Awards

	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1994)
	Hugo Best Novella winner (2001) : The Ultimate Earth
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2002) : Terraforming Earth

Books about Jack Williamson

In Memory of Wonder's Child (2007) by Stephen Haffner

Jack Williamson recommends

Heechee Rendezvous (1984) (Heechee, book 3) Frederik Pohl "The Heechee are one of the greatest creations of science fiction."	Over the River and Through the Woods (1995) Clifford D Simak "Good fantasy - and that includes science fiction - takes off from the known for its flights into the new. Cliff Simak was a master of the art. His known was the rural Midwest that he loved. His new could reach to the ends of space and time, but never beyond reality. Even his cosmic aliens always had half human dimensions that made them believable. I loved him, as so many did, for his unfailing warmth and a wit that was keen but never cruel. I heard from him often during the painful time after his wife's death. His own death touched me deeply, and I'm happy to see him remembered with this collection of his best-loved stories."	My Father's Ghost (2002) Suzy McKee Charnas "This is a book for today. Written honestly and plainly, it llluminates a universal problem."

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