The Williamson Effect

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Jack Williamson has been writing groundbreaking science fiction since 1929, on topics as diverse as time travel {The Légion of Time), anti-matter (Seetee Shock), genetic engineering (Dragon's Island), and cybernetics (The Humanoids), earning him the title of Grand Master from the Science Fiction Writers of America. He's alsó produced seminal fantasies like Darker Than You Think and Golden Blood, a part of his oeuvre that won him the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Roger Zelazny, one of the most acclaimed writers of fantasy and science fiction, has brought together somé of today's greatest SF writers to honor Williamson with terrific originál stories either about Williamson himself or inspired by his works, coupled with originál afterwords from the authors sharing their own fond remembrances of Williamson. Marvei at the legacy of this living national treasure in: *"The Bad Machines" by Fred Saberhagen: An unlucky crew is caught between the humanoids and the Berserkers.... Tovább

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Jack Williamson has been writing groundbreaking science fiction since 1929, on topics as diverse as time travel {The Légion of Time), anti-matter (Seetee Shock), genetic engineering (Dragon's Island), and cybernetics (The Humanoids), earning him the title of Grand Master from the Science Fiction Writers of America. He's alsó produced seminal fantasies like Darker Than You Think and Golden Blood, a part of his oeuvre that won him the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Roger Zelazny, one of the most acclaimed writers of fantasy and science fiction, has brought together somé of today's greatest SF writers to honor Williamson with terrific originál stories either about Williamson himself or inspired by his works, coupled with originál afterwords from the authors sharing their own fond remembrances of Williamson. Marvei at the legacy of this living national treasure in: *"The Bad Machines" by Fred Saberhagen: An unlucky crew is caught between the humanoids and the Berserkers. *"The Mayor of Mare Tranq" by Frederik Pohl: See Jack Williamson himself become a real American hero. *"Nonstop to Portales" by Connie Willis: A strange bus tour that changes one man's life.
(continued from front flap) *"lnside Passage" by Poui Anderson: A chilling sequel to Darker Than You Think. *"A Certain Talent" by Dávid Weber: Hitherto unknown adventures of the Légion of Space's famousGiles Habibula. In these and nine other stories by such luminaries as Ben Bova, John Brunner, Andre Norton, and Mike Resnick, as well as two poems by Scott E. Green, Williamson is honored by his peers with a feast of great science fiction and fantasy inspired by his life and works. Roger Zelazny was, until his untimely death in 1995, one of the preeminent SF and fantasy writers of this or any age. Author of such great works as Lord of Light, "This Immortal," Damnation Alley, and Nine Princes in Amber, Zelazny was an enormously versatile and powerful presence in the field. Among Zelazny and the authors in this book, there are enough Hugó and Nebula Awards to sink a battleship. Altogether, this formidable group of SF giants has won an astonishing twenty-five Hugó Awards, fifteen Nebula Awards, and two John W. Campbell Memóriái Awards. Vissza