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The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson
Series · 3 books · 1932-2011

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#1

The Metal Man & Others

1999

This inaugural volume begins a publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Science Wonder Stories, and Astounding Stories, this volume features nine tales including two novel-length adventures, The Green Girl and The Birth of a New Republic. Also included are Williamson's earliest letters and contest entries to the editors of the SF magainzes of the late 20's and early 30's. 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 1998 Science Fiction Grand Master Hal Clement, The Metal Man and Others documents the beginning of Williamson's unparalleled career and acts as a mirror to the development of American Science Fiction
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#2

Wolves of Darkness

1932

This second 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, Wonder Stories, and Amazing Stories, this volume features ten tales, four never published in book form, including novel-length adventure, The Stone from the Green Star. Also included are Williamson's letters and contest entries to the editors of the SF magainzes of the early 30's. 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 noted writer Harlan Ellison, Wolves of Darkness imparts 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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#8

At the Human Limit

2011

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. 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 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)

Author

Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson
Author · 52 books
John Stewart Williamson who wrote as Jack Williamson (and occasionally under the pseudonym Will Stewart) was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction".
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