Jack Williamson Books In Order

The Humanoids

On the far planet Wing IV, a brilliant scientist creates The Humanoids sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity. But are they perfect servants or perfect masters?Slowly The Humanoids spread throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor. Only a hidden group of rebels can stem the humanoid tide…
if it’s not already too late. Fist published in Astounding Science Fiction during the magazine’s heyday, The Humanoids sceince fiction grand master Jack Williamson’s finest novel has endured for fifty years as a classic on the theme of natural versus artificial life. Also included in this edition is the prelude novelette, ‘With Folded Hands,’ which was chosen for the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

The Metal Man & Others

This inaugural volume begins a publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Science Wonder Stories, and Astounding Stories, this volume features nine tales including two novel length adventures, The Green Girl and The Birth of a New Republic. Also included are Williamson’s earliest letters and contest entries to the editors of the SF magainzes of the late 20’s and early 30’s. The book is smythe sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid neutral paper, with full color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by 1998 Science Fiction Grand Master Hal Clement, The Metal Man and Others documents the beginning of Williamson’s unparalleled career and acts as a mirror to the development of American Science Fiction

Wolves of DarknessX

This second volume continues the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Astounding Stories, Wonder Stories, and Amazing Stories, this volume features ten tales, four never published in book form, including novel length adventure, The Stone from the Green Star. Also included are Williamson’s letters and contest entries to the editors of the SF magainzes of the early 30’s. The book is smythe sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid neutral paper, with full color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by noted writer Harlan Ellison, Wolves of Darkness imparts the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson’s unparalleled career.

Wizard’s Isle

This third volume continues the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Astounding Stories, Weird Tales, Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, and Thrilling Mystery, this volume features sixteen tales including a novel length adventure, ‘Xandulu’, seven of which have never been published in book form. The book is smythe sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid neutral paper, with full color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by author, and long time friend of Williamson, Ray Bradbury, Wizard’s Isle contains the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson’s unparalleled career.

Spider Island

The fourth volume of a project to collect, in order of original publication, the short fiction of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Volume Four includes twelve stories from 1936 to 1938, and a foreword by SF & Horror author and scholar Edward Bryant. An appendix includes a novelty feature and an unreprinted story preface. The author provides an afterword commenting on the genesis of these stories, and reflecting on the economic and cultural mood of the nation during the early years of American Science Fiction. Contents include: ‘The Ruler of Fate’ from Weird Tales ‘Death’s Cold Daughter’ from Thrilling Mystery ‘The Great Illusion’ from Fantasy Magazine ‘The Blue Spot’ from Astounding Stories ‘The Ice Entity’ from Thrilling Wonder Stories ‘Spider Island‘ from Thrilling Mystery ‘The Mark of the Monster’ from Weird Tales ‘The Devil in Steel’ from Thrilling Mystery ‘Released Entropy’ from Astounding Stories ‘Dreadful Sleep’ from Weird Tales ‘The Infinite Enemy’ from Thrilling Wonder Stories ‘The Legion of Time’ from Astounding Science Fiction As with the previous volumes in THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JACK WILLIAMSON, Spider Island is a smythe sewn 6′ x 9′ hardcover bound in a custom dyed cloth, and typeset in a format designed in honor of the Fantasy Press editions of Williamson’s first books from the 1940s & 50s. Full color endpapers reproduce the pulp magazine cover art for each story’s first appearance.

The Crucible of Power

The fifth volume of a project to collect, in order of original publication, the short fiction of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Volume Five includes twelve stories from 1938 to 1940, and a foreword by author and popular culture expert Frank M. Robinson. Included are two true rarities: two stories that originally appeared under the pen name Nils O. Sonderlund. These stories, originally appearing in MARVEL TALES, were considered ‘too sexy’ to appear under Williamson’s own name! An appendix reprints rare commentaries on this volume’s contents as they originally appeared in the pulp magazines . The author provides an afterword commenting on the genesis of these stories, and reflecting on the economic and cultural mood of the nation during the early years of American Science Fiction. Contents include: ‘The Chivaree’ from the Portales Daily News ‘The Dead Spot’ from Marvel Science Stories ‘Nonstop to Mars’ from Argosy Weekly ‘The Crucible of Power‘ from Astounding Stories ‘After World’s End’ from Marvel Science Stories ‘Passage to Saturn’ from Thrilling Wonder Stories ‘The Fortress of Utopia’ from Startling Stories ‘Star Bright’ from Argosy Weekly ‘As in the Beginning’ from Future Fiction ‘Hindsight’ from Astounding Stories ‘Mistress of Machine Age Madness’ from Marvel Tales As with the previous volumes in THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JACK WILLIAMSON, The Crucible of Power is a smythe sewn 6′ x 9′ hardcover bound in a custom dyed cloth, and typeset in a format designed in honor of the Fantasy Press editions of Williamson’s first books from the 1940s & 50s. Full color endpapers reproduce the pulp magazine cover art for each story’s first appearance.

Gateway to Paradise

Grand Master Jack Williamson passed away last year at the age of 98, but the ambitious program to collect his short fiction continues. Of the 10 tales in this collection three of which are full length novels! over half have never been reprinted before. Featured is the first book appearance of the original novella length version of ‘Darker Than You Think,’ and the magazine texts of ‘The Reign of Wizardry,’ and ‘Gateway to Paradise.’ Williamson’s afterword has his recollections on the genesis of these tales and the pre World War II science fiction field. Like previous volumes in this series, the full color endpapers reproduce the original magazine covers with artwork by pulp masters including Belarski, Cartier, Rogers and Scott of the stories herein, and the binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson’s works published by Fantasy Press. Several volumes in this series are already out of print, so make sure to reserve your copy to avoid disappointment.

With Folded Hands . . . And Searching Mind

The ambitious program to collect the short fiction of Grand Master Jack Williamson continues! The 15 tales in this penultimate volume cover Williamson’s entry into the US Army in 1942 through to his very successful effort to integrate into the post WWII science fiction market. Featured is the 1948 3 part serial ‘…
And Searching Mind,’ which Williamson re wrote into his most famous work, The Humanoids. Other classics in this volume include the first ‘Humanoids’ story, ‘With Folded Hands…
‘; ‘Breakdown,’ set in the same universe as his novel co authored with James Gunn, Star Bridge; and his much reprinted classic, ‘The Equalizer.’ Appearing in either book form or hardcover for the first time are ‘Cold Front Coming,’ ‘Hocus Pocus Universe,’ ‘The Hitch Hiker’s Package,’ and ‘You Can’t Beat a Marine.’ Also included is Williamson’s afterword with his recollections on the genesis of these tales and the World War II era science fiction field. As with previous volumes in this series, the full color endpapers reproduce the original magazine covers with artwork by pulp masters including Hubert Rogers, Earle K. Bergey and Frank R. Paul of the stories herein, and the binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson’s works published by Fantasy Press. The book is smythe sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid neutral paper, with full color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by legendary author, editor, and long time friend of Williamson and fellow Science Fiction Grand Master, Robert Silverberg, With Folded Hands…
And Searching Mind represents the changing state of mid 20th Century American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson’s unparalleled career. Table of Contents ‘Foreword’ by Robert Silverberg ‘Backlash’ Astounding Science Fiction, Aug ’41 ‘Breakdown’ Astounding Science Fiction, Jan ’42 ‘Conscience, LTD.’ Unknown, Aug ’43 ‘Cold Front Coming’ Blue Book, Jun ’45 ‘The Equalizer’ Astounding Science Fiction, Mar ’47 ‘With Folded Hands…
‘ Astounding Science Fiction, Jul ’47 ‘…
And Searching Mind’ Astounding Science Fiction, Mar, Apr, May ’48 ‘The Moon and Mr. Wick’ Comet, Sum ’50 ‘The Cold Green Eye’ Fantastic, Mar/Apr ’53 ‘Hocus Pocus Universe’ Science Stories, Oct ’53 ‘Operation Gravity’ Science Fiction Plus, Oct ’53 ‘The Hitch Hiker’s Package’ Fantastic Universe, May ’54 ‘Guinevere for Everybody’ Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, 1954 ‘You Can’t Beat a Marine’ El Portal, May ’56 ‘Beans’ The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov ’58 ‘Afterword’ by Jack Williamson

At the Human Limit

The ambitious program to collect the short fiction of Grand Master Jack Williamson concludes! As with previous volumes in this series, the full color endpapers reproduce the original magazine covers with artwork by modern masters including John Berkey, Virgil Finlay, Bob Eggleton and Vincent Di Fate of the stories herein, and the binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson’s works published by Fantasy Press. The book is smythe sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid neutral paper, with full color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by award winning author and long time friend of Williamson, Connie Willis, At the Human Limit represents the changing state of mid 20th Century American Science Fiction and concludes the documentation of Williamson’s unparalleled career. Contents: Table of Contents Foreword by Connie Willis Second Man to the Moon Fantastic, April 1959 The Masked World Worlds of Tomorrow, October 1963 Jamboree Galaxy Magazine, December 1969 The Highest Dive Science Fiction Monthly, January 1976 Farside Station Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, November/December 1978…
All Ye Who Enter Here Stellar Science Fiction 6 A Break for the Dinosaurs Speculations, 1983 Space Family Smiths JD Journal, 1983 At the Human Limit The Planets, 1985 The Mental Man Amazing Stories, October 1988 The Bird s Turn The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 1992 Venus Is Hell Omni, October 1992 The Litlins The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1993 The Fractal Man VB Tech Journal, July 1996 The Firefly Tree Science Fiction Age, May 1997 The Hole in the World The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 1997 The Purchase of Earth Science Fiction Age, July 1998 The Story Roger Never Told Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, 1998 The Pet Rocks Mystery Alien Pets, 1998 Miss Million Amazing Stories, Winter 1999 Eden Star Star Colonies, 2000 Nitrogen Plus Asimov s Science Fiction, October/November 2001 Afterlife The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2002 The Planet of Youth The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2002 Shakespeare & Co. Shelf Life, 2002 The Man From Somewhere Asimov s Science Fiction, October/November 2003 Black Hole Station Space Stations, 2004 Devil s Star Visions of Liberty, 2004 Dream of Earth Amazing Stories, November, 2004 The Half Men Absolute Magnitude, May 2005 The Cat That Loved Shakespeare Chronicle, August 2005 Ghost Town Weird Tales, July 2005 The Mists of Time Millennium 3001, 2006 A Christmas Carol The Worlds of Jack Williamson, 2008

Darker Than You Think

This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case. Read by Ray Porter Who is the Child of Night? That’s what small town reporter Will Barbee must find out. Inexorably drawn into investigating a rash of grisly deaths, he soon finds himself embroiled in something far beyond mortal understanding. Doggedly pursuing his investigations, he meets the mysterious and seductive April Bell and starts having disturbing, tantalizing dreams in which he does terrible things things that are stranger and wilder than his worst nightmares. Then his friends begin dying one by one, and he slowly realizes that an unspeakable evil has been unleashed. As Barbee’s world crumbles around him in a dizzying blizzard of madness, the intoxicating, dangerous April pushes Barbee ever closer to the answer to the question ”Who is the Child of Night?” When Barbee finds out, he’ll wish he’d never been born.

Land’s End (With: Frederik Pohl)

When Comet Sicara brushed near enough to strip the ozone layer form the Earth’s atmosphere, civilization effectively ended in fact, life on Earth was nearly extinguished. But the underwater cities survived, and some heavily protected land enclaves as well. When the ‘ozone summer’ years were ending, submarine captain Ron Tregarth rediscovered his lost love, Graciela Navarro. but their triumph against all odds was only the beginning, for the alien known as the Eternal stood between them and threatened to destroy all they held dearest. The Eternal’s goal was to absorb the minds of every living thing, to create a death in life to enslave the planet.

The Black Sun

Jack Williamson, Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master, takes readers to the near future, where humankind’s Project Starseed uses faster than light quantum wave technology to send colonists to distant star systems.

The Silicon Dagger

In a novel that marks his eighth decade of publication, Grand Master Jack Williamson projects today’s headlines into the near future to tell a tale of murder, conspiracy, and revolution. When his investigative reporter brother is murdered while researching a story, Clay Barstow follows his trail into Kentucky and begins an investigation of his own. Behind the idyllic landscape and quiet houses of McAdam County he finds an undercurrent of paranoia and secrecy swirling around something hinted at in his brother’s notes, a new technology of astonishing power called ‘The Silicon Dagger.’ As Clay delves further into the secrets of McAdam County and the ruling family that is its namesake, he finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the conspiracy as its target. Framed for murder and on the run from the bloodthirsty local militia, Clay desperately seeks his brother’s killers and the secrets of The Silicon Dagger. Because if he can’t reveal them in time, they just might enable the people of McAdam County to do what no one has dared in a century and a half declare independence from the United States of America…
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Terraforming Earth

First Paperback, Contains the Hugo and Nebula Award winning The Ultimate EarthWhen a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, men and woman are able to observe the devastated planet and wait for a time when return will become possible. Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, and their eyes are raised toward the giant planet in the sky which long ago was the cradle of humanity. Finally, after millennia of waiting, the descendants of the original refugees travel back to a planet they’ve never known, to try and rebuild a civilization of which they’ve never been a part. The fate of the earth lies in the success of their return, but after so much time, the question is not whether they can rebuild an old destroyed home, but whether they can learn to inhabit an alien new world Earth.

The Stonehenge Gate

A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara desert since the beginning of time. In a baseme*nt in New Mexico, four poker buddies find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there…
These four amateur adventurers are about to uncover the key that could unlock the vast reaches of the universe. A sudden burst of curiosity propels mild mannered English professor Will and his three friends to the Sahara to excavate a site where radar has evidently detected trilithic stones hidden beneath the sand. There they stumble upon an ancient artifact that will change their lives, and the world, forever…
a gateway between planets, linking Earth to distant worlds where they will discover wonders and terrors beyond imagining. Jack Williamson, the dean of science fiction writers, weaves an exciting tale that takes the friends to the far corners of the universe. One leads an oppressed people to freedom. Another uncovers clues that could identify a long dormant civilization of immortal beings. Now each traveler must play a crucial role in unraveling an ancient mystery, the solution to which may reveal the true origins of the human race. If they can just survive their journeys back to Earth…

Wonder’s Child

Telling much more than the story of a single man’s life and work, this autobiography is an amazing look at the entire 20th century from the eyes of one of the greatest voices in science fiction. This story of a man plagued with a perpetual sense of wonder at the world around him begins with Williamson’s youth and his family’s struggle to survive on farms in the arid southwestern United States. Early attempts at education, the publication of his first story, his service in the Pacific during World War II, and his eventual success in the genre of science fiction are all detailed to tell the life of this Hugo Award winning author.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, honored the best of science fiction’s early short stories. This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas written between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

Published in 1973 to honor novellas that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

This volume contains novellas by Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell Jr., Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, C. M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, H. G. Wells, and Jack Williamson.

The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

This is the definitive collection of the twentieth century’s most characteristic genre science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre’s range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered reality, a universe all its own. Readers can sample H.G. Well’s 1903 story ‘The Land Ironclads’ which predicted the stalemate of trench warfare and the invention of the tank, Jack Williamson’s ‘The Metal Man,’ a rarely anthologized gem written in 1928, Clifford D. Simak’s 1940s classic, ‘Desertion,’ set on ‘the howling maelstrom that was Jupiter,’ Frederik Pohl’s 1955 ‘The Tunnel Under the World’ with its gripping first line, ‘On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream’, right up to the current crop of writers, such as cyberpunks Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, whose 1982 story ‘Burning Chrome’ foreshadows the idea of virtual reality, and David Brin’s ‘Piecework,’ written in 1990. In addition, Shippey provides an informative Introduction, examining the history of the genre, its major themes, and its literary techniques.

The Space Opera Renaissance

‘Space opera’, once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the ‘new space opera’ is one of the defining streams of modern SF. Now, World Fantasy Award winning anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have compiled a definitive overview of this subgenre, both as it was in the days of the pulp magazines, and as it has become in 2005. Included are major works from genre progenitors like Jack Williamson and Leigh Brackett, stylish midcentury voices like Cordwainer Smith and Samuel R. Delany, popular favorites like David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin, and modern day pioneers such as Iain M. Banks, Steven Baxter, Scott Westerfeld, and Charles Stross.