Jack Williamson , born in the Arizona the April 29th 1908 and deceased the November 10th 2006, was a writer of Science-fiction state-unien.

Biography

Jack Williamson spends the first years of its life in a family of farmers which emigrates in 1915 with the New Mexico in the search of new pastures. Thereafter, its family will deal with breeding of horses with the place of the cereal culture.

Although alive in an isolated farm, he discovers the local bookstore and makes use of it to make its own education. In 1926, it falls by chance on a magazine Amazing Stories , created this year there, containing stories of voyages in space and time, which, according to its own expression, gives him desire for writing its own stories.

Literary career

It publishes its first text, The Metal Man , in 1928; it will not cease any more writing. In the years 1930, already recognized like one of large of the Science fiction, it makes the happiness of a young teenager called Isaac Asimov by sending to him a chart of congratulations for its first publication.

Thereafter, part of the money gained with its first publications will enable him to travel and meet many authors. It will bind in particular with Edmond Hamilton and Co-will sign some of its work with, inter alia, Frederik Pohl.

As much of authors of this period, it starts by writing mainly Space Opera, but, thereafter, it packs its register by writing for example novels of Fantasy ( The golden delicious blood ), or on the robots ( Humanoïdes ). One of its most known series, the legion of space , clearly takes again to the topic of the Three musketeers; the continuation of this series ( the legion of time ) will inspire later by the years the film Terminator.

During its career of more than sixty years, it publishes more than 50 novels, some under the Pseudonyme of Will Stewart . It obtains many literary prizes of which, in 1975 the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers off America of which he is the president of 1978 with 1980.

University career

Williamson obtains two diplomas of English literature in the years 1950, at the university of New Mexico (ENMU) with Portales (close to the border of New Mexico with Texas), and it is engaged in this university in 1960. There remains about it member all his life. In the years 1980, it makes a generous donation of books and original manuscripts to the library of the ENMU, which allows the constitution of a special department of the Collections. It shelters from now on the Library of science fiction Jack Williamson, described by the Web site of the ENMU like richest of the world in this field. At the end of the years 1990, it gives a perennial financing to the publication El Portal , the specialized publication in the literature and arts of the ENMU. Moreover, it accommodates the Jack Williamson Lectureship Series , an annual conference during which two authors of science fiction are invited to discuss various topics.

Williamson obtained its Ph.D. English literature with the Université of Colorado de Boulder at the end of the years 1950, with for subject the first work of Herbert George Wells, in which it shows that Wells was not the happy optimist that much saw in him.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Williamson is the inventor of the terms Terraformation , in a news published in 1942 in Astounding Science Fiction and genetic Engineering .

Works

Series

• Series of the legion of space
• the legion of space ( The Legion off Space , 1934)
• cometary the ( The Cometeers , 1936)
• Only against the legion ( One against the Legion , 1939)
• The Queen off the Legion (1982)

• Series of the legion of time

• warriors of time ( The Legion off Time , 1938)
• After World' S End (1939)

• Series of the child of the stars (with Frederik Pohl)

• reefs of space ( The Reefs off Space , 1964)
• the child of the stars ( Starchild , 1965)
• the wild star ( Rogue Star , 1969)

• the saga of Cuckoo (with Frederik Pohl)

• Farthest Star (1975)
• Wall Around has Star (1975)

• Series Undersea Eden (with Frederik Pohl)

• Undersea Quest (1954)
• Undersea Fleet (1955)
• Undersea City (1958)

Novels

• The Alien Intelligence (1929)
• The Girl from Mars , 1930) with Miles J Breuer
• The Green Girl (1930)
• The Stone from the Green Star (1931)
• Blood gilded ( Golden delicious Blood (1933)
• Xandulu (1934)
• The Blue Spot (1935)
• Islands off the Sun (1935)
• The Fortress off Utopia (1939)
• blacker than you do not think ( Darker than you think , 1940)
• Realm off Wizardry (1940)
• With Folded Hands (1947)
• Humanoïdes ( The Humanoids , 1949)
• Seetee Shock (1950, under the name of Will Stewart )
• the nave of Antim ( Seetee Ship , 1951 under the name of Will Stewart )
• teeth of the dragon ( Dragon' S Island , 1951, also published under the name The Not-Men )
• The Dome Around America (1955, also published under name Gateway to Paradise )
• the bridge on the stars ( Star Bridge , 1955 with James E. Gunn)
• Wolves off Darkness (1958)
• planets in deferment ( The Trial off Terra , 1962)
• The Reign off Wizardry (1964)
• Bright New Universe (1967)
• Trapped in Space (1968)
• Jamboree (1969)
• children of the moon ( The Moon Children , 1972)
• capacity black ( The Power off Blackness , 1975)
• Brother of demons, brother of gods ( Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods , 1979)
• The Humanoid Touch (1980)
• Manseed (1982)
• Lifeburst (1984)
• Firechild (1986)
• Narabedla, Ltd. (1988) with Frederik Pohl
• Land's End (1988) with Frederik Pohl
• But Not Warriors (1989)
• Mazeway (1990)
• The Singers off Time (1991) with Frederik Pohl
• Beachhead (1992)
• Demon Moon (1994)
• The Black Sun (1997)
• The Silicon Dagger (1999)
• Terraforming Earth (2001)
• The Stonehenge Spoils (2005)

External bonds

• Bibliographer and biography
• Bibliography
• Biography in English
• Interview by SciFic.com

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