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...
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Critical Essay by Algis Budrys
The stories in [The Early Williamson] date from 1928 through 1933. They are not modern science fiction…. No writer today … traces more clearly the evoluti...
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Critical Essay by Alfred D. Stewart
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—...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Jonas
["Star Bridge," originally published in 1955,] is not a recognized "classic" of that period. According to the reference works I consulted, i...
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Critical Essay by Lester Del Rey
[The Legion of Space, first published in 1935,] is a classic adventure story of three men who set out on a seemingly impossible quest through unknown space and across...
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Critical Essay by Susan L. Nickerson
[In "Manseed"] another old master performs masterfully in his first novel in some years. The Raven Foundation seeks to perpetuate the human race by ...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
["The Queen of the Legion"] is the fourth volume in Jack Williamson's classic Legion of Space trilogy. The three books were originally seriali...
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Critical Essay by Tom Easton
Jack Williamson has added one more to his "Legion of Space" trilogy: The Queen of the Legion. He needn't have bothered. His effort is trite and super...
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Critical Essay by H. H. Holmes
["Dragon's Island"] falls into the suspense-melodrama category, and very satisfactorily. The science element involves "genetic engineering,&...
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Critical Essay by H. H. Holmes
For the novice in science fiction, "seetee" means contra-terrene, referring to matter in which the positive and negative charges are reversed from the fam...
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Critical Essay by Brian Aldiss
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 ...
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Critical Essay by Sam Moskowitz
The first intimation that [Jack Williamson] had finally made the grade as a professional writer came without notice … when he received the December, 1928, AMAZI...
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Critical Essay by Samuel Mines
[The Moon Children is an] excellent novel; it fairly glitters with imaginative devices and captures perfectly the sense of alienness, of other worlds, that makes it pec...
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Critical Essay by Brian W. Aldiss
Williamson began writing in Gernsback's Amazing and never looked back. He was much influenced by Abe Merritt, and managed to assimilate Merritt's sense...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
Williamson wrote [the 11 stories in "The Early Williamson"] between 1928 and 1933, back when Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories were bringing a n...
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John Stewart Williamson
Critical Essay by Algis Budrys
