Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson, who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 April 1908
CountryUnited States of America
future probable vast
I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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It's worth exploring if it offers any potential at all to protect emergency responders or industrial workers. Without doing things like this, you'll never know where it could go.
mean past ideas
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.
discovery fiction assumption
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
high living milk remember
I remember that milk fondly. We were not living too high on the hog.
police brutal strict
I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
crying farther ran waited walked
She ran away with me, and we were getting farther and farther from the wagon. So I waited for a place where there were no cat's-claws and jumped off, ... I got up crying and walked back to the wagon.
chapter discovered involved sort
I got involved with it and sort of discovered the story chapter by chapter as I went along,
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The humanoids protect people so well they won't let them drive a car lest they have an accident or let a woman hold a needle lest she stab herself, ... With the Patriot Act, people are trying to overprotect us by taking our freedoms away. I'd repeal it if I could.
kids imagination young
We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.