Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson (born April 29, 1908), who writes as Jack Williamson but has occasionally used the pseudonym Will Stewart, is considered the "Dean of Science fiction". He first sold a story to an American pulp magazine in 1928. In search of better pastures when Williamson was young, his family migrated from bordering states to rural New Mexico in a covered wagon. The farming was unsuccessful and the family continued a poverty stricken existence.
As a young man, Williamson discovered the magazine Amazing Stories and strove to write his own fiction, selling his first story at 20. By the 1930s he was an established genre author,and the teenaged Isaac Asimov was thrilled to receive a postcard from Williamson,who he had idolized,congratulating him on his first published story and saying "welcome to the ranks". Thereafter, he was a regular contributor to the pulp magazines, though not reaching financial success until many years later. He has published many collaborations with the SF author Frederik Pohl.He continues to write as a nonagenarian.
Novels:
- The Humanoids, 1949
- Undersea Quest, 1954 (with Fred Pohl)
- Undersea Fleet, 1955 (with Fred Pohl)
- Undersea City, 1958 (with Fred Pohl)
- Terraforming Earth, 2001
- The Stonehenge Gate,2005 (forthcoming)