Search Worlds Without End

This is the inaugural volume in the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson.

The nine stories in this volume (three of which are full-length novels!) are drawn from classic pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories, Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories, and Astounding Stories of Super-Science.

Supplementing these stories are rare editorials and letters to the editors of Amazing Stories, Science Wonder Stories, and Astounding Stories. Also included is a lengthy foreword by fellow Grand Master Hal Clement with an afterword by Jack Williamson.

Table of Contents:

• "Jack Williamson, Speculator" by Hal Clement
• "Scientifiction, Searchlight of Science" (Amazing Stories Quarterly,
• "The Metal Man" (Amazing Stories, Dec '28)
• The Girl from Mars (with Miles J. Breuer) (SF Series, #1, 1929)
• "The Alien Intelligence" (Science Wonder Stories, Jul, Aug '29)
• "The Second Shell" (Air Wonder Stories, Nov '29)
• "The Green Girl" (Amazing Stories, Mar, Apr '30)
• "The Cosmic Express" (Amazing Stories, Nov '30)
• "The Birth of a New Republic" (with Miles J. Breuer) (Amazing Stories Quarterly, Win '30)
• "The Prince of Space" (Amazing Stories, Jan '31)
• "The Meteor Girl" (Astounding Stories of Super-Science, Mar '31)
• "Afterword" by Jack Williamson

This second volume continues the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson.

Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Astounding Stories, Wonder Stories, and this volume features ten tales, four never published in book form, including novel-length adventure, Amazing Stories,The Stone from the Green Star. Also included are Williamson's letters and contest entries to the editors of the SF magainzes of the early 30's.

The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art.

With a foreword by noted writer Harlan Ellison, Wolves of Darkness imparts the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.

Table of Contents:

• "And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, a Man Who Needs No Introduction” by Harlan Ellison
• "The Lake of Light" (Astounding Stories Apr ’31)
• "Through the Purple Cloud" (Wonder Stories May ’31)
• "The Doom from Planet 4" (Astounding Stories Jul ’31)
• "Twelve Hours to Live!" (Wonder Stories Aug ’31)
• "The Stone from the Green Star" (Amazing Stories Oct ’31 & Nov '31)
• "Wolves of Darkness" (Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Jan ’32)
• "The Moon Era" (Wonder Stories Feb ’32)
• "The Pygmy Planet" (Astounding Stories Feb ’32)
• "Red Slag of Mars" (w/Laurence Schwartzman) (Wonder Stories Quarterly Spr ’32)
• "The Lady of Light" (Amazing Stories Sep ’32)
• Afterword by Jack Williamson

This third volume continues the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson.

Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Astounding Stories, Weird Tales, Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, and Thrilling Mystery, this volume features sixteen tales (including a novel-length adventure, "Xandulu"), seven of which have never been published in book form.

The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art.

With a foreword by author, and long-time friend of Williamson, Ray Bradbury, Wizard's Isle contains the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.

Table of Contents:

• "Jack Williamson, Friend!” by Ray Bradbury
• "The Electron Flame" (Wonder Stories Quarterly Fll ’32)
• "The Wand of Doom" (Weird Tales Oct ’32)
• "In the Scarlet Star" (Amazing Stories Mar ’33)
• "Salvage in Space" (Astounding Stories Mar ’33)
• " 'We Ain’t Beggars' " (New Mexico Quarterly Review Aug ’33)
• "The Plutonian Terror" (Weird Tales Oct ’33)
• "Dead Star Station" (Astounding Stories Nov ’33)
• "Terror Out of Time" (Astounding Stories Dec ’33)
• "The Flame from Mar"s (Astounding Stories Jan ’34)
• "Invaders of the Ice World" (Weird Tales Jan ’34)
• "Born of the Sun" (Astounding Stories Mar ’34)
• "Xandulu" (Wonder Stories Mar ’34, Apr '34, May 34)
• "Wizard’s Isle (Weird Tales Jun ’34)
• "The Galactic Circle" (Astounding Stories Aug ’35)
• "Islands of the Sun" (Astounding Stories Sep ’35 & Oct '35)
• "Grey Arms of Death" (Thrilling Mystery Dec ’35)
• Afterword by Jack Williamson

This fourth volume continues the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson.

Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Astounding Stories, Weird Tales, Thrilling Wonder Stories, and Thrilling Mystery, this volume features sixteen tales (including four novel-length adventures, "Dreadful Sleep," "The Blue Spot," "Released Entropy," and the original magazine text of The Legion of Time), seven of which have never been published in book form.

The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art.

With a foreword by author, and critic, Edward Bryant, Spider Island contains the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.

Table of Contents:

• "American Gods, American Dreaming" by Edward Bryant
• "The Ruler of Fate" (Weird Tales, Apr, May, Jun '36)
• "Death’s Cold Daughter" (Thrilling Mystery, Sep '36)
• "The Great Illusion" (with Eando Binder, Edmond Hamilton, Raymond Z. Gallun, and John Russell Fearn) (Fantasy Magazine, Sep '36)
• "The Blue Spot" (Astounding Stories, Jan & Feb '37)
• "The Ice Entity" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Feb '37)
• "Spider Island" (Thrilling Mystery, Apr '37)
• "The Mark of the Monster" (Weird Tales, May '37)
• "The Devil in Steel" (Thrilling Mystery, Jul '37)
• "Released Entropy" (Astounding Stories Aug, Sep '37)
• "Dreadful Sleep" (Weird Tales, Mar, Apr, May '38)
• "The Infinite Enemy" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Apr '38)
• "The Legion of Time" (Astounding Stories, May, Jun, Jul '38)
• Afterword" by Jack Williamson

The fifth volume of a project to collect, in order of original publication, the short fiction of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson.

Volume Five includes twelve stories from 1938 to 1940, and a foreword by author and popular culture expert Frank M. Robinson. Included are two true rarities: two stories that originally appeared under the pen-name Nils O. Sonderlund. These stories, originally appearing in MARVEL TALES, were considered "too sexy" to appear under Williamson's own name!

An appendix reprints rare commentaries on this volume's contents as they originally appeared in the pulp magazines. The author provides an afterword commenting on the genesis of these stories, and reflecting on the economic and cultural mood of the nation during the early years of American Science Fiction.

Table of Contents:

• "Foreword" by Frank M. Robinson
• "The Chivaree" (Portales Daily News, Sep 13, ’38)
• "The Dead Spot" (Marvel Science Stories, Nov ’38)
• "Nonstop to Mars" (Argosy Weekly, Feb 25 ’39)
• "After World’s End" (Marvel Science Stories, Feb ’39)
• "The Crucible of Power" (Astounding Science-Fiction, Feb ’39)
• "Passage to Saturn" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Jun ’39)
• "Star Bright" (Argosy Weekly, Nov 25 ’39)
• "The Fortress of Utopia" (Startling Stories, Nov ’39)
• "The Angel from Hell" (Marvel Tales, Dec ’39)
• "As In the Beginning" (Future, Mar ’40)
• "Hindsight" (Astounding Science-Fiction, May ’40)
• "Mistress of Machine-Age Madness" (Marvel Tales, May ’40)
• "Afterword" by Jack Williamson

The ambitious program to collect the short fiction of Grand Master Jack Williamson continues! Of the 10 tales in this collection drawn from classic pulp magazines--Unknown, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Super Science Stories, Marvel Stories, Comet, Argosy Weekly, Startling Stories, and the rare fanzine Stardust (three of which are full-length novels!)--nearly half have never been reprinted before.

Featured is the original novella-length version of "Darker Than You Think" and the magazine texts of "The Reign of Wizardry" and "Gateway to Paradise" (previously published as Dome Over America.) Also included is Williamson's afterword with his recollections on the genesis of these tales and the pre-World War II science fiction field.

Like previous volumes in this series, the full-color endpapers reproduce the original magazine covers (with artwork by pulp masters including Belarski, Cartier, Rogers, Bergey and Scott) of the stories herein, and the binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson's works published by Fantasy Press. The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art.

With a foreword by author, editor, collaborator, and long-time friend of Williamson (and fellow Science Fiction Grand Master), Frederik Pohl, Gateway to Paradise contains the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.

Table of Contents:

• "Foreword" by Frederik Pohl
• "The Reign of Wizardry" (Unknown, Mar, Apr, May '40)
• "The Sun-Maker" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Jun '40)
• "The Crystal of Death" (Stardust, Aug '40)
• "The Girl in the Bottle" (Super Science Stories, Sep '40)
• "Racketeers in the Sky" (Argosy Weekly, Oct 12, 1940)
• "Ashes of Iron" (Stardust, Nov '40)
• "Darker Than You Think" (Unknown, Dec '40)
• "The Star of Dreams" (Comet, Mar '41)
• "The Iron God" (Marvel Stories, Apr '41)
• "Gateway to Paradise" (Startling Stories, Jul '41)
• "Afterword" by Jack Williamson

The ambitious program to collect the short fiction of Grand Master Jack Williamson continues! The 15 tales in this penultimate volume cover Williamson's entry into the US Army in 1942 through to his very successful effort to integrate into the post-WWII science fiction market.

Featured is the 1948 3-part serial "...And Searching Mind," which Williamson re-wrote into his most famous work, The Humanoids. Other classics in this volume include the first "Humanoids" story, "With Folded Hands..."; "Breakdown," set in the same universe as his novel co-authored with James Gunn, Star Bridge; and his much-reprinted classic, "The Equalizer." Appearing in either book-form or hardcover for the first time are "Cold Front Coming," "Hocus-Pocus Universe," "The Hitch-Hiker's Package," and "You Can't Beat a Marine." Also included is Williamson's afterword with his recollections on the genesis of these tales and the World War II-era science fiction field.

As with previous volumes in this series, the full-color endpapers reproduce the original magazine covers (with artwork by pulp masters including Hubert Rogers, Earle K. Bergey and Frank R. Paul) of the stories herein, and the binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson's works published by Fantasy Press. The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art.

With a foreword by legendary author, editor, and long-time friend of Williamson (and fellow Science Fiction Grand Master), Robert Silverberg, With Folded Hands... And Searching Mind represents the changing state of mid-20th Century American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.

Table of Contents:

• "Foreword" by Robert Silverberg
• "Backlash" (Astounding Science Fiction, Aug '41)
• "Breakdown" (Astounding Science Fiction, Jan '42)
• "Conscience, LTD." (Unknown, Aug '43)
• "Cold Front Coming" (Blue Book, Jun '45)
• "The Equalizer" (Astounding Science Fiction, Mar '47)
• "With Folded Hands..." (Astounding Science Fiction, Jul '47)
• "...And Searching Mind" Astounding Science Fiction, Mar, Apr, May '48)
• "The Moon and Mr. Wick" (Comet, Sum '50)
• "The Cold Green Eye" (Fantastic, Mar/Apr '53)
• "Hocus-Pocus Universe" (Science Stories, Oct '53)
• "Operation Gravity" (Science Fiction Plus, Oct '53)
• "The Hitch-Hiker's Package" (Fantastic Universe, May '54)
• "Guinevere for Everybody" (Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, 1954)
• "You Can't Beat a Marine" (El Portal, May '56)
• "Beans" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov '58)
• "Afterword" by Jack Williamson

The ambitious program to collect the short fiction of Grand Master Jack Williamson concludes!

As with previous volumes in this series, the full-color endpapers reproduce the original magazine covers (with artwork by masters including Virgil Finlay, Jim Burns, Luis Royo and Vincent Di Fate) of the stories herein, and the binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson's works published by Fantasy Press. The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing each story's original cover art.

With a foreword by award-winning author and long-time friend of Williamson, Connie Willis, At the Human Limit represents the changing state of mid-20th Century American Science Fiction and concludes the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.

Table of Contents:

• "Foreword" by Connie Willis
• "Second Man to the Moon" (Fantastic, April 1959)
• "The Masked World" (Worlds of Tomorrow, October 1963)
• "Jamboree" (Galaxy Magazine, December 1969)
• "The Highest Dive" (Science Fiction Monthly, January 1976)
• "Farside Station" (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November/December 1978)
• "...All Ye Who Enter Here" (Stellar Science Fiction #6)
• "A Break for the Dinosaurs" (Speculations, 1983)
• "Space Family Smiths" (JD Journal, 1983)
• "At the Human Limit" (The Planets, 1985)
• "The Mental Man" (Amazing Stories, October 1988)
• "The Bird's Turn" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 1992)
• "Venus Is Hell" (Omni, October 1992)
• "The Litlins" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1993)
• "The Fractal Man" (VB Tech Journal, July 1996)
• "The Firefly Tree" (Science Fiction Age, May 1997)
• "The Hole in the World" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 1997)
• "The Purchase of Earth" (Science Fiction Age, July 1998)
• "The Story Roger Never Told" (Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, 1998)
• "The Pet Rocks Mystery" (Alien Pets, 1998)
• "Miss Million" (Amazing Stories, Winter 1999)
• "Eden Star" (Star Colonies, 2000)
• "Nitrogen Plus" (Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2001)
• "Afterlife" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2002)
• "The Planet of Youth" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2002)
• "Shakespeare & Co." (Shelf Life, 2002)
• "The Man From Somewhere" (Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2003)
• "Black Hole Station" (Space Stations, 2004)
• "Devil's Star" (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
• "Dream of Earth" (Amazing Stories, November, 2004)
• "The Half Men" (Absolute Magnitude, May 2005)
• "The Cat That Loved Shakespeare" (Chronicle, August 2005)
• "Ghost Town" (Weird Tales, July 2005)
• "The Mists of Time" (Millennium 3001, 2006)
• "A Christmas Carol" (The Worlds of Jack Williamson, 2008)