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Also by Jack Williamson
Legion of Space Series
1. The Legion of Space (1947)
2. The Cometeers (1950)
3. One Against the Legion (1967)
4. The Queen of the Legion (1983)
Humanoids Series
1. The Humanoids (1949)
2. The Humanoid Touch (1980)
Seetee Series (as by Will Stewart)
1. Seetee Shock (1949)
2. Seetee Ship (1951)
Undersea Trilogy (with Frederik Pohl)
1. Undersea Quest (1954)
2. Undersea Fleet (1956)
3. Undersea City (1958)
Saga of Cuckoo (with Frederik Pohl)
1. Farthest Star (1975)
2. Wall Around A Star (1983)
Starchild Trilogy (with Frederik Pohl)
1. The Reefs of Space (1964)
2. Starchild (1965)
3. Rogue Star (1969)
Novels
Golden Blood (1933)
Realm of Wizardry (1940)
Darker Than You Think (1948)
Dragon’s Island (1951) (also known as The Not-Men)
Star Bridge (1955, with James E. Gunn)
The Dome Around America (1955) (also known as Gateway to Paradise)
The Trial of Terra (1962)
Bright New Universe (1967)
Trapped in Space (1968)
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)
Autobiography
Wonder’s Child: My Life in Science Fiction (1984, updated 2005)
Collections
The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume One: The Metal Man and Others (1999)
The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Two: Wolves of Darkness (1999)
The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Three: Wizard’s Isle (2000)
The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Four: Spider Island (2002)
The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Five: The Crucible of Power (2006)
The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six: Gateway to Paradise (2008)
The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Seven: With Folded Hands … And Searching Mind (2010)
The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Eight: At the Human Limit (forthcoming)
Jack Williamson (1908 – 2006)
John Stewart ‘Jack’ Williamson was born in Arizona in 1908 and raised in an isolated New Mexico farmstead. After the Second World War, he acquired degrees in English at the Eastern New Mexico University, joining the faculty there in 1960 and remaining affiliated with the school for the rest of his life. Williamson sold his first story at the age of 20 – the beginning of a long, productive and successful career, which started in the pulps, took in the Golden Age and extended right into his nineties. He was the second author, after Robert A. Heinlein, to be named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by SFWA, and by far the oldest recipient of the Hugo (2001, aged 93) and Nebula (2002, aged 94) awards. A significant voice in SF for over six decades, Jack Williamson is credited with inventing the terms ‘terraforming’ and ‘genetic engineering’. He died in 2006.
Copyright
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