Jack Williamson

Person · Open Library

Works

106

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Film & TV

Writing · Brisbee, Arizona Territory, USA

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Australia

Active from

1945

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

56

Total plays

379

John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson (and occasionally under the pseudonym Will Stewart) was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction" following the death in 1988 of Robert A. Heinlein. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jack+Williamson">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,049x

2. A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein

   · 1982 · cited 18,583x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,393x

4. Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults

   · 1998 · cited 14,835x

5. Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3

   · 2024 · cited 13,426x

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Quotes

• “Two weeks passed, by the time of the ship—physiological time, that measured by heartbeats and all bodily rhythms, in which the span of life moved relentlessly toward its end, regardless of motion backward or forward along the time dimension.”
• “The criticism of SF has tapped rich new vines for researchers, and I can think of writers who seem to be trying harder to impress the critics than to please their readers. I’m afraid the critical tail has begun to wag the creative dog.”
• “SF still appeals to the young, as always, because so much of it is set in the futures in which they will be living.”
• “Accelerating change has become almost the first fact of life.”
• “Science fiction, as I like to define it, is fiction based on the imagined exploration of scientific possibility. The distinction from fantasy—or from other sorts of fantasy—lies in the word possibility.”
• “Considering the uses of science fiction, I think it must first of all offer entertainment, before the the futurology or the social comment can matter. For most readers, entertainment means escape. Though a few young writers are scornful of the, creating good escape fiction is a high and admirable art. Even when the writer aims at something more, entertainment is basic. The bored reader is lost.”

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Key facts

Born

John Stewart Williamson , ( 1908-04-29 ) April 29, 1908, Bisbee , Arizona Territory , U.S.

Died

November 10, 2006 (2006-11-10) (aged 98), Portales, New Mexico , U.S.

Pen name

Will Stewart, Nils O. Sonderlund

Occupation

Writer, professor of English

Period

1928–2006

Genre

Science fiction

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Wikidata facts

Image

Jack Williamson AWS 2911.jpg

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