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Sci Fi Focus > Encyclopedia > Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson (1908-) who usually writes as Jack Williamson, is an American science fiction author who has been writing since the 1920s, and has continued to produce new books even as a nonagenarian.
Williamson coined the word *TERRAFORMING* in his 1949 novel, Seetee Shock.
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Halcyon Press Ltd. Released: 2010-02-03 Kindle Edition (1065 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Lester Del Rey, Leigh Brackett, Murray Leinster, Ben Bova, and many others.
This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
Contents:
A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder (James De Mille) A World by the Tale (Randall Garrett) A World is Born (Leigh Brackett) Accidental Death (Peter Baily) Earthmen Bearing Gifts (Fredric Brown) Atom Boy (Ray Cummings) Beyond Lies the Wub (Phillip K. Dick) Blind Spot (Bascom Jones) Cully (Jack Egan) Dead Giveaway (Randall Garrett) Dead Ringer (Lester Del Rey) Dead World (Jack Douglas) Divinity (Joseph Samachson) Four Miles Within (Anthony Gilmore) Heist Job on Thizar (Randall Garrett) Hex (Laurence Janifer) In the Year 2889 (Jules Verne) Indulgence of Negu Mah (Robert Arthur) Lease to Doomsday (Lee Archer) Lost in Translation (Laurence Janifer) McIlvane’s Star (August Derleth) Missing Link (Frank Herbert) Next Logical Step (Ben Bova) Pandemic (J.F. Bone) Remember the Alamo (T.R. Fehrenbach) Salvage in Space (Jack Williamson) Security (Poul Anderson) Subspace Survivors (E.E. “Doc” Smith) The Aliens (Murray Leinster) The Big Trip Up Yonder (Kurt Vonnegut) The Chronic Argonauts (H.G. Wells) The Cosmic Express (Jack Williamson) The Day Time Stopped Moving (Bradner Buckner) The Eternal Wall (Raymond Z. Gallun) The Gifts of Asti (Andre Norton) The Hated (Frederick Pohl) The Last Evolution (John W. Campbell) The Man Who Saw the Future (Edmond Hamilton) The Memory of Mars (Raymond F. Jones) The Moon is Green (Fritz Leiber) The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin) The Power and the Glory (Charles W. Diffin) The Radiant Shell (Paul Ernst) The Stoker and the Stars (Algis Budrys) The Street That Wasn’t There (Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak) The World Behind the Moon (Paul Ernst) There is a Reaper (Charles De Vet) They Twinkled Like Jewels (Phillip José Farmer) Waste Not, Want (Dave Dryfoos) Year of the Big Thaw (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.
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By Jack Williamson
Haffner Press Hardcover (616 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: The ambitious program to collect the short fiction of Grand Master Jack Williamson concludes! As with previous volumes in this series, the full-color endpapers reproduce the original magazine covers (with artwork by modern masters including John Berkey, Virgil Finlay, Bob Eggleton and Vincent Di Fate) of the stories herein, and the binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson's works published by Fantasy Press. The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by award-winning author and long-time friend of Williamson, Connie Willis, At the Human Limit represents the changing state of mid-20th Century American Science Fiction and concludes the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career. Contents: Table of Contents Foreword by Connie Willis Second Man to the Moon (Fantastic, April 1959) The Masked World (Worlds of Tomorrow, October 1963) Jamboree (Galaxy Magazine, December 1969) The Highest Dive (Science Fiction Monthly, January 1976) Farside Station (Isaac Asimov s Science Fiction Magazine, November/December 1978) . . . All Ye Who Enter Here (Stellar Science Fiction #6) A Break for the Dinosaurs (Speculations, 1983) Space Family Smiths (JD Journal, 1983) At the Human Limit (The Planets, 1985) The Mental Man (Amazing Stories, October 1988) The Bird s Turn (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 1992) Venus Is Hell (Omni, October 1992) The Litlins (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1993) The Fractal Man (VB Tech Journal, July 1996) The Firefly Tree (Science Fiction Age, May 1997) The Hole in the World (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 1997) The Purchase of Earth (Science Fiction Age, July 1998) The Story Roger Never Told (Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, 1998) The Pet Rocks Mystery (Alien Pets, 1998) Miss Million (Amazing Stories, Winter 1999) Eden Star (Star Colonies, 2000) Nitrogen Plus (Asimov s Science Fiction, October/November 2001) Afterlife (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2002) The Planet of Youth (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2002) Shakespeare & Co. (Shelf Life, 2002) The Man From Somewhere (Asimov s Science Fiction, October/November 2003) Black Hole Station (Space Stations, 2004) Devil s Star (Visions of Liberty, 2004) Dream of Earth (Amazing Stories, November, 2004) The Half Men (Absolute Magnitude, May 2005) The Cat That Loved Shakespeare (Chronicle, August 2005) Ghost Town (Weird Tales, July 2005) The Mists of Time (Millennium 3001, 2006) A Christmas Carol (The Worlds of Jack Williamson, 2008)
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By Jack Williamson
FQ Books Paperback (24 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. Salvage in Space is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Jack Williamson is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Jack Williamson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. |
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By Jack Williamson
Haffner Pr Hardcover (540 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: This third volume continues the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Astounding Stories, Weird Tales, Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, and Thrilling Mystery, this volume features sixteen tales (including a novel-length adventure, "Xandulu"), seven of which have never been published in book form. The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by author, and long-time friend of Williamson, Ray Bradbury, Wizard's Isle contains the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career. |
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By Jack Williamson
Haffner Pr Hardcover (603 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: The fourth volume of a project to collect, in order of original publication, the short fiction of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Volume Four includes twelve stories from 1936 to 1938, and a foreword by SF & Horror author and scholar Edward Bryant. An appendix includes a novelty feature and an unreprinted story preface. The author provides an afterword commenting on the genesis of these stories, and reflecting on the economic and cultural mood of the nation during the early years of American Science Fiction. Contents include: "The Ruler of Fate" (from Weird Tales) "Death's Cold Daughter" (from Thrilling Mystery) "The Great Illusion" (from Fantasy Magazine) "The Blue Spot" (from Astounding Stories) "The Ice Entity" (from Thrilling Wonder Stories) "Spider Island" (from Thrilling Mystery) "The Mark of the Monster" (from Weird Tales) "The Devil in Steel" (from Thrilling Mystery) "Released Entropy" (from Astounding Stories) "Dreadful Sleep" (from Weird Tales) "The Infinite Enemy" (from Thrilling Wonder Stories) "The Legion of Time" (from Astounding Science-Fiction) As with the previous volumes in THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JACK WILLIAMSON, SPIDER ISLAND is a smythe-sewn 6" x 9" hardcover bound in a custom-dyed cloth, and typeset in a format designed in honor of the Fantasy Press editions of Williamson's first books from the 1940s & 50s. Full-color endpapers reproduce the pulp magazine cover art for each story's first appearance. |
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By Garyn G. Roberts
Prentice Hall Paperback (1184 pages)
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This one volume anthology explores the last two hundred years of Science Fiction and Fantasy—featuring women and men authors of various ethnic backgrounds, and a range of both traditional canonical literature and popular culture. Designed to heighten interest in a fun and exciting topic, this book will lead readers to meaningful intellectual, social, and historic investigations. Contributing authors include Mary W. Shelly, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bram Stoker, Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, Jack London, Ray Bradbury, and Kurt Vonnegut. For fans of science fiction, fantasy, and the stories presented here, who appreciate that they represent the best of humanity, and include potential warnings for where humanity is headed. |
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By Jack Williamson
FQ Books Paperback (24 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: The Cosmic Express is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Jack Williamson is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Jack Williamson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. |
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By Jack Williamson
Haffner Press Hardcover (544 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: The ambitious program to collect the short fiction of Grand Master Jack Williamson continues! The 15 tales in this penultimate volume cover Williamson's entry into the US Army in 1942 through to his very successful effort to integrate into the post-WWII science fiction market. Featured is the 1948 3-part serial ". . . And Searching Mind," which Williamson re-wrote into his most famous work, The Humanoids. Other classics in this volume include the first "Humanoids" story, "With Folded Hands . . ."; "Breakdown," set in the same universe as his novel co-authored with James Gunn, Star Bridge; and his much-reprinted classic, "The Equalizer." Appearing in either book-form or hardcover for the first time are "Cold Front Coming," "Hocus-Pocus Universe," "The Hitch-Hiker's Package," and "You Can't Beat a Marine." Also included is Williamson's afterword with his recollections on the genesis of these tales and the World War II-era science fiction field. As with previous volumes in this series, the full-color endpapers reproduce the original magazine covers (with artwork by pulp masters including Hubert Rogers, Earle K. Bergey and Frank R. Paul) of the stories herein, and the binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson's works published by Fantasy Press. The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by legendary author, editor, and long-time friend of Williamson (and fellow Science Fiction Grand Master), Robert Silverberg, With Folded Hands . . . And Searching Mind represents the changing state of mid-20th Century American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.
Table of Contents "Foreword" by Robert Silverberg "Backlash" (Astounding Science Fiction, Aug '41) "Breakdown" (Astounding Science Fiction, Jan '42) "Conscience, LTD." (Unknown, Aug '43) "Cold Front Coming" (Blue Book, Jun '45) "The Equalizer" (Astounding Science Fiction, Mar '47) "With Folded Hands . . ." (Astounding Science Fiction, Jul '47) ". . . And Searching Mind" Astounding Science Fiction, Mar, Apr, May '48) "The Moon and Mr. Wick" (Comet, Sum '50) "The Cold Green Eye" (Fantastic, Mar/Apr '53) "Hocus-Pocus Universe" (Science Stories, Oct '53) "Operation Gravity" (Science Fiction Plus, Oct '53) "The Hitch-Hiker's Package" (Fantastic Universe, May '54) "Guinevere for Everybody" (Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, 1954) "You Can't Beat a Marine" (El Portal, May '56) "Beans" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov '58) "Afterword" by Jack Williamson
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By Isaac Asimov, Brian W. Aldiss & Steve Perry
Davis Publications Paperback (196 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Cover art by Jack Gaughan illustrating The Far King by Richard Wilson. Also: Grimes at Glenrowan by A. Bertram Chandler; The Third Dr. Moreau [SF Puzzles] by Martin Gardner; The Small Stones of Tu Fu by Brian W. Aldiss; A Hideous Splotch of Purple by Theresa Harned; Will Academe Kill Science Fiction? (essay) by Jack Williamson; Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead by Steve Perry [as by Jesse Peel]; Roboroots by Jay A. Parry; Chariot Ruts by Pamela F. Service; Vital Truncation (poem) by Seth S. Horowitz; Lost and Found by Michael A. Banks and George Wagner; Darkside by Gary D. McClellan; The Agony of Defeat by Jack C. Haldeman, II. Interior artwork by Jack Gaughan, Don Simpson, Alex Schomburg, Vincent DiFate, Freff, Tim Kirk, George Barr, Rick Sternbach. |
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By Ben Bova, Frank Herbert, Poul Anderson, Anne McCaffrey & Jack Williamson
Penguin Released: 1975-01-01 Mass Market Paperback (342 pages)
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