Gateway to Paradise, the Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six

Product Description 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. Review Haffner's as-yet-uncompleted achievement in resurrecting...Jack Williamson's short fiction is as good as publishing gets. --Paul Di Filippo, SciFi . comI have no hesitation in placing Jack Williamson on a plane with two other giants, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. --Sir Arthur C. Clarke About the Author Born in 1908 on a hard-scrabble dirt ranch, Jack Williamson is one of the true pioneers of science fiction. Since his first publication in Amazing Stories in 1928 he has written some of science fiction s acknowledged classics including The Humanoids, The Legion of Space, and Darker Than You Think. He has been credited with developing modern concepts of artificial intelligence, anti-matter, and genetic engineering. With time away from writing as an Army weather forecaster in World War II, and earning a Ph.D. in English literature at the age of fifty, he taught one of the first SF courses in a university curriculum. In 1976 he was named a Grandmaster by the Science Fiction Writers of America. His fifty-fourth novel, The Stonehenge Gate, was published in 2005. He passed away at age 98 on November 10, 2006.