Date: 13 Jun 89 08:03:16 PDT (Tuesday)
Subject: Author Lists: Jack Williamson
From: jwenn@world.std.com (John Wenn)
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Edited: 23-Apr-94

Actually, no one asked for a Jack Williamson list.  After ~150 authors,
omitting Jack Williamson just **had** to be an oversight.  He's had one of
the longest careers in SF (61 years and counting).  He is certainly one of
the most readable of the Golden Age writers still active.  In my opinion,
his very best work is "The Humanoids" (my edition also includes the great
the short story "With Folded Hands").  It deals with the invention of a
race of robots charged "To Serve And Obey, And Guard Men From Harm".  The
problem is that they judge everything from bicycles to unsupervised sex
as too harmful to be allowed.  Forget Steven King,  this is scary.  Also
quite good is "Three From the Legion" (one of the best written space
operas of the golden age), "Darker Than You Think" (one of the few novels
that deal with werewolves) and "SeeTee" (anti-matter or "contraterrane"
as it was known).  "The Best of Jack Williamson" is a good selection of
his stories.

[C] == Story Collection.
[CB] == Chapbook (a very short book, or pamphlet).
[YA] == The book is for young adults (however you define them).
[O] == Omnibus.  Includes other books.
[= ...] == Also known by this other title.

Williamson, Jack (/John) (Stewart)	(U.S.A., 4/29/1908- )	G, H
	(awards: Hugo 1985; Nebula Grand Master 1975; Pilgrim 1973 & WOF [Special] 1989)
	(GoH World SF Con 1977)
	(pseudonym: Will Stewart)

Series
	The Humanoids
		The Humanoids (1949) [rev. 1980]
		The Humanoid Touch (Phantasia, 1980)

	Legion of Space
		The Legion of Space (Fantasy Press, 1947)
		The Cometeers (Fantasy Press, 1950)
			= The Cometeers (1967)
			+ One Against the Legion (1967) [C] [adds new material]
			[O/3N= Three From the Legion (1979)]
		The Queen of the Legion (1983)

The Alien Intelligence (1980) [C]
Beachhead (1992)
The Best of Jack Williamson (1978) [C]
Bright New Universe (1967)
Brother to Demons, Brother to the Gods (1978)
Darker Than You Think (Fantasy Press, 1948)
Demon Moon (1994)
Dome Around America (1955)
Dragon's Island (1951) [= The Not-Men]
Dreadful Sleep (1977) [C]
The Early Williamson (1975) [C] [inc. The Girl from Mars]
Firechild (1986)
Golden Blood (1964) [Tamerlaine, 1978]
The Green Girl (1950)
Into the Eighth Decade (1990) [C] [Author's Choice Monthly #5]
Lady in Danger (1945) [CB] [C]
The Legion of Time (Fantasy, 1952) [= The Legion of Time / After World's End]
	= The Legion of Time (1961)
	+ After World's End (1961)
Lifeburst (1984)
Manseed (1982)
Mazeway (1990)
The Moon Children (1972)
Outpost Mars [wip]
The Pandora Effect (1969) [C]
People Machines (1971) [C]
The Power of Blackness (1976)
The Reign of Wizardry (1964) [rev. Phantasia, 1979]
Trapped in Space (1968) [YA]
The Trial of Terra (1962)

with M. J. Breuer
	The Birth of a New Republic (1981)
	The Girl from Mars (1929) [CB]

with James Gunn
	Star Bridge (Gnome, 1955)

with Frederik Pohl
	Jack Eden [YA]
		Undersea Quest (1954)
		Undersea Fleet (1956)
		Undersea City (1958)
			[O/3N= The Undersea Trilogy (1992)]
	The Saga of the Cuckoo
		Farthest Star (1975)
		Wall Around a Star (1983)
			[O/2N= The Saga of the Cuckoo (1984)]
	The Starchild Trilogy
		The Reefs of Space (1964)
		Starchild (1965)
		Rogue Star (1969)
			[O/3N= The Starchild Trilogy (1977)]
	Land's End (1988)
	The Singers of Time (1991)

as Will Stewart
	Seetee
		Seetee Ship (1951)
		Seetee Shock (1950)
			[O/2N= Seetee Ship - Seetee Shock (1972) [= Seetee] [as Jack Williamson]

Nonfiction
H. G. Wells: Critic of Progress (1973)
Teaching Science Fiction (1972)
Teaching Science Fiction: Education for Tomorrow (Owlswick, 1980)
Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction (1984) [Autobiography] [Hugo]

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