Jack Williamson has written steadily since his first sale in 1928 and has had published more than three million words of magazine science fiction, thirty-one novels, and at least eight collections and scholarly books. His works have been much...

n. A distinctive feature system proposed by Kay Williamson (1977). Like the rather similar Ladefoged feature system, it consists mostly of articulatory features and allows them to be multivalued; it also permits sequential feature specifications for...

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 considered by many the "Dean of Science...

The conscious use and exploration of well-defined ideas marks the fiction of Jack Williamson. Those guiding ideas—and his indebtedness to H. G. Wells—may be discerned in any discussion of his recent study, H. G. Wells: Critic of Progress. Although Wells may be the better artist, the complexity of Williamson's own fiction can go far beyond Wells's, and the experience he presents in "With Folded Hands," The Humanoids, and Bright New Universe is as large and satisfying...

Everyone would agree, I think, that the events in ["The Legion of Time"] are impossible. About that there can be no serious argument—nor that this does not rule the story out of serious consideration. Such being the case, let us consider it seriously. In so doing, I want to bear in mind not only the virtues and faults of this particular story, but to examine it as a typical work of science fiction.

The first intimation that [Jack Williamson] had finally made the grade as a professional writer came without notice … when he received the December, 1928, AMAZING STORIES. The cover, by Frank R. Paul, depicted a scene from Williamson's story The Metal Man. The editor clearly recognized Williamson's literary deity in his blurb: "Not since we published 'The Moon Pool' has such a story as this been published by us." The Metal Man concerned radioactive emanations...