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Jack Williamson
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American science fiction writer (1908–2006)
OverviewAI-generated
Jack Williamson (1908–2006) was an American writer, novelist, and science fiction writer. Born in Bisbee, he began his work period in 1928 and resided in New Mexico. He was educated at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Colorado. Writing in English, he produced works within the speculative fiction and science fiction genres, including *Pandora Effect*, *Best of Amazing Stories*, *Three From the Legion*, *Trapped in Space*, and *Science Fiction Gems*.
Williamson received several awards, including the Pilgrim Award, the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, the Hugo Award for Best Related Work, and the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award. He was also nominated for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Locus Award for Best Novella. His literary influences included Abraham Grace Merritt, Edward Elmer Smith, H. G. Wells, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. He used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 106
Top works
- Pandora Effect
- Best of Amazing Stories
- Three From the Legion
- Trapped in Space
- Science Fiction Gems
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Brisbee, Arizona Territory, USA
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Australia
- Active from
- 1945
Discography
- John Williamson1970
- From Travlin’ Out West1974
- Comic Strip Cowboy1976
- Country Greats1978
- Road to Town1978
- Bound for Botany Bay1982
- The Smell of Gum Leaves1984
- Mallee Boy1986
- Warragul1989
- JW’S Family Album1990
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 56
- Total plays
- 379
John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), 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" following the death in 1988 of Robert A. Heinlein. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jack+Williamson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein
· 1982 · cited 18,699x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,988x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,334x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,220x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Two weeks passed, by the time of the ship—physiological time, that measured by heartbeats and all bodily rhythms, in which the span of life moved relentlessly toward its end, regardless of motion backward or forward along the time dimension.”
- “The criticism of SF has tapped rich new vines for researchers, and I can think of writers who seem to be trying harder to impress the critics than to please their readers. I’m afraid the critical tail has begun to wag the creative dog.”
- “SF still appeals to the young, as always, because so much of it is set in the futures in which they will be living.”
- “Accelerating change has become almost the first fact of life.”
- “Science fiction, as I like to define it, is fiction based on the imagined exploration of scientific possibility. The distinction from fantasy—or from other sorts of fantasy—lies in the word possibility.”
- “Considering the uses of science fiction, I think it must first of all offer entertainment, before the the futurology or the social comment can matter. For most readers, entertainment means escape. Though a few young writers are scornful of the, creating good escape fiction is a high and admirable art. Even when the writer aims at something more, entertainment is basic. The bored reader is lost.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- John Stewart Williamson , ( 1908-04-29 ) April 29, 1908, Bisbee , Arizona Territory , U.S.
- Died
- November 10, 2006 (2006-11-10) (aged 98), Portales, New Mexico , U.S.
- Pen name
- Will Stewart, Nils O. Sonderlund
- Occupation
- Writer, professor of English
- Period
- 1928–2006
- Genre
- Science fiction
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of several called the "Dean of Science Fiction". He is also credited with one of the first uses of the term genetic engineering. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund.
Early life
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