Collected Short Fiction by Jack Williamson (.ePUB)
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Collected Short Fiction (Jerry eBooks, 2024) by Jack Williamson
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Overview: John Stewart Williamson was born April 29, 1908 in Bisbee, Arizona Territory, and spent his early childhood in western Texas. In search of better pastures, his family migrated to rural New Mexico in a horse-drawn covered wagon in 1915. The farming was difficult there and the family turned to ranching, which they continue to this day. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II as a weather forecaster.
He strove to write his own fiction and sold his first story to Gernsback at age 20: “The Metal Man” was published in the December 1928 issue of Amazing Stories.
In the 1980s, he made a sizable donation of books and original manuscripts to ENMU’s library, which resulted in the formation of a Special Collections department; the library now is home to the Jack Williamson Science Fiction Library.
In the field of science, Jack Williamson coined the word terraforming in a science-fiction story published in 1942 in Astounding Science Fiction.
The Science Fiction Writers of America named Williamson its second Grand Master of Science Fiction after Robert Heinlein, presented 1976.
In 1994 Williamson received a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Williamson in 1996, its inaugural class of two deceased and two living persons.
The Horror Writers Association conferred its Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1998 and the World Horror Convention elected him Grand Master in 2004.
Despite his age, he had made an appearance at the Spring 2006 Jack Williamson Lectureship and published a 320-page novel, The Stonehenge Gate, in 2005.
On November 10, 2006, Williamson died at his home in Portales, New Mexico at age 98.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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