Jack Williamson, Author . Tor $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-87200-7
The
OED
credits SF Grand Master Williamson (The Humanoids; The Legion of Time; Drago's Island; Darker Than You Think) for coining the term "terraforming" (in his 1942 novel, Seetee Ship) to describe an alien world altered for human...
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Jack Williamson, Author . Tor $24.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0897-9
This trippy stand-alone from Hugo- and Nebula-winner Williamson reads like a novelization of Paul Verhoeven directing Jules Verne's combined rewrite of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
and C.S. Lewis's Perelandra
. It...
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Jack Williamson, Author Orb Books $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-85253-5
Williamson's sci-fi tale of a battle between human beings and a race of humanoids they have created first appeared in Astounding magazine in the 1940s. (Jan.)
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Jack Williamson, Author Haffner Press $35 (589p) ISBN 978-1-893887-14-5
SF/Fantasy/Horror NOTES Love's stronger than ""the machine of destiny"" in ""The Ruler of Fate,"" a glacier possesses a life force in ""The Ice Entity"" and time gets reversed and cause and effect are upended in ""Released Entropy."" Spider...
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Jack Williamson, Author Del Rey Books $17.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-345-34032-0
At the end of Lifeburst , Quin Dain had saved the solar system from the Seeker Mother-Queen, and thus earned probationary status for humans in the Galactic Council residing in Sol's Oort Cloud. Now his son Benn must prove to the Council that humans...
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Jack Williamson, Author Tor Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85937-4
Ninety-nine starships have been sent out from Earth using an experimental quantum drive. Their mission is to seed the galaxy with humanity, their exact destinations are unknown. The last of the ships ends up in the system of the Black Sun, a dying...
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Jack Williamson, Author Tor Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86540-5
A divided America provides the setting for Williamson's (The Black Sun) unfortunate latest, an ill-considered scenario in which one small Kentucky county threatens the U.S. government with an ultimate weapon. When his journalist brother is slain for
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Edited by Greg Ketter. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-60701-358-7
Ketter’s collection of fantasy stories celebrating bookstores, first published in 2002, begins with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and contains 15 original stories plus Harlan Ellison’s “The Cheese Stands Alone.” The stories aren’t spectacular, but...
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Jack Williamson, Author . Five Star $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7862-4314-3
The two stories and short novel in this so-so collection from Hugo winner Williamson focus on genetic engineering. The title work, a novella dating to 1951, sets up what appears to be a battle to the death between humans and superior mutants, but...
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