1. John Stewart Williamson was an American science fiction writer, one of several called the "Dean of Science Fiction".
26 Facts About Jack Williamson
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Jack Williamson is credited with one of the first uses of the term genetic engineering.
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Jack Williamson was born April 29,1908, in Bisbee, Arizona Territory.
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Jack Williamson spent much of the rest of his early childhood in western Texas.
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Jack Williamson served in the US Army Air Corps in World War II as a weather forecaster.
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Jack Williamson strove to write his own fiction and sold his first story to Gernsback at age 20: "The Metal Man" was published in the December 1928 issue of Amazing.
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Early on, Williamson became impressed by the works of Miles J Breuer and struck up a correspondence with him.
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Under Breuer's tutelage, Jack Williamson would send outlines and drafts for review.
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Wracked by emotional storms and believing many of his physical ailments to be psychosomatic, Jack Williamson underwent psychiatric evaluation in 1933 at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, in which he began to learn to resolve the conflict between his reason and his emotion.
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Jack Williamson remained a regular contributor to the pulp magazines but did not achieve financial success as a writer until many years later.
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Jack Williamson wrote the resulting strip Beyond Mars, loosely based on Seetee Ship, until the paper dropped all comics.
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Jack Williamson continued to write as a nonagenarian and won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards during the last decade of his life, by far the oldest writer to win those awards.
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Jack Williamson received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in English in the 1950s from Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, joining the faculty of that university in 1960.
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Jack Williamson remained affiliated with the school for the rest of his life.
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Jack Williamson coined the word terraforming in a science-fiction story published in 1942 in Astounding Science Fiction.
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Jack Williamson is credited with one of the first uses of the term genetic engineering.
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Jack Williamson continued to co-teach these two classes into the 21st century.
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In 1994 Jack Williamson received a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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In November 2006, Jack Williamson died at his home in Portales, New Mexico, at age 98.
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Jack Williamson took this idea into science fiction with The Legion of Space.
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However, they did not accept novels, so Jack Williamson submitted three short stories and a novelette.
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Jack Williamson was once a criminal, and can open any lock ever made.
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Jack Williamson's enemy is the Purple pretender Eric Ulnar, who sought the Medusae out in the first place, seeking to become the next Emperor of The Sun.
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Jack Williamson next wrote The Cometeers which takes place twenty years after The Legion of Space in which the same characters battle another alien race, this one of different origin.
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In 1983, Jack Williamson published a final Legion novel, The Queen of the Legion.
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An editor suggested that Jack Williamson combine the ideas of contraterrene matter and asteroid mining, which inspired the Seetee series of short stories written as Will Stewart.