Jack Williamson

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  • Bibliography:
    54 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1931
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Full Series List in Order

The Legion of Space

One Against the Legion ()
The Legion of Space (Sep-1977)
The Cometeers (May-1978)
The Queen of the Legion (Jan-1983)
The Legion of Time (Dec-1985)

Book List in Order: 54 titles

  • Through the Purple Cloud

    From the early days of Pulp Science Fiction comes this tale from an SF Grand Master. George Cleland, while returning home on a small passenger plane with three other passengers, flew into a purple cloud that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Passing ...

  • The Doom From Planet 4

    A ray of fire, green, mysterious, stabs through the night to Dan on his ship. It leads him to an island of unearthly peril. Jack Williamson was awarded the Grand Master by the Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America, he is a member of the Science...

  • Wolves of Darkness

    When Clovis McLaurin received an urgent letter from his father, Dr. Ford McLaurin, he rushed in the dead of winter to his father's ranch. Clovis arrives to find the local townspeople are being attacked and killed by a pack of wolves. As he journey's ...

  • Hocus-Pocus Universe

    Into the world of facts and figures, scientists and soldiers, came Eon Hunter. Eon the misfit, with his stubborn refusal to accept the world as it was; Eon the enigmatic, who always returned to involve himself in Guilborn's life. They loved the same ...

  • Trapped in Space

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  • The Moon Children

  • Power Of Blackness

    To win the right to a name, he fought - without weapons - the dreaded beast. Only to be cheated of his prize. Branded a criminal he sought refuge with a mysterious clan of intergalactic revolutionaries - and found his heritage at last. As Blacklan...

  • The Legion of Space

    The Legion of Space

    The Legion of Space is a science-fiction novel by the American writer Jack Williamson. It was first published in book form by Fantasy Press in 1947 in an edition of 2,970 copies. The novel was revised from a version that was originally serialized in ...

  • The Cometeers

    The Legion of Space

    In the second book in the Legion of Space series, Jay Kalam, Hal Samdu, and Giles Habibula fight The Cometeers, an alien race of energy beings controlling a "comet" which is really a giant force field containing a swarm of planets populated by the...



  • Three From The Legion

    1st paperback edition, reprint of book club hard cover original. Omnibus edition of three novels and a novella originally published separately in magazines and book form: The Legion of Space (originally published in Astounding Stories, April-Septembe...

  • The Humanoid Touch

    THE HUMANOIDS are mankind's most perfect machines. Built to serve, they have swiftly become masters, overrunning a thousand worlds. But a remnant of humanity has fled to the galactic outpost of Kai. Over the centuries, memory of the humanoids has fad...

  • Brother Demons

    One of the best things science fiction can offer is a fresh analysis of what it means to be human. This book delivers on that analysis -- in spades. Ordinarily, a review shouldn't provide a synopsis, but since one is not provided by Amazon.com, I'...

  • Manseed

    IN THE BEGINNING... Egan Drake was a wealthy but unhappy visionary who died early and left behind only a powerful dream. He proposed to spread Mankind among the stars. Then there was Megan Drake. She took her brother's vision and made it real. ...

  • The Queen of the Legion

    The Legion of Space

    Decades after the murderous assaults on the civilized worlds by the Medusae and the Cometeers—worlds protected by the Legion of Space—the Hawkshead Nebula is a new setting of danger and intrigue. Jil Gyrel is a lonely girl on a dismal ...

  • The Star Child Trilogy

  • Lifeburst

    Somewhere, eons past, the seekers had begun as weapons—cyborg war machines. nuclear explosions, and powerful lasers meant little to them, for each was larger than 10 battleships and subsisted on a diet of heavy metals, preferably radioactive...

  • The Legion of Time

    The Legion of Space

  • Firechild

  • Seetee Ship

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  • Mazeway

    A novel by a winner of the Grand Master Nebula Award. In this sequel to Lifeburst Earth is a shattered civilization and its inhabitants are descending into savagery. They are obliged to select a champion to prove the worthiness of their species in...

  • Beachhead

  • Darker Than You Think

    Who is the child of the night? That's what small-town reported Will Barbee must find out. Inexorably drawn into investigating a rash of grisly deaths, he soon finds himself embroiled in something far beyond mortal understanding.

    Doggedly pursu...

  • Demon Moon

    As the devils of the Demon Moon threaten to invade Wolver Riding, and a ravishing temptress seeks his doom, Zorn must solve the mysteries of his homeland, which his family has defended from various beasts for generations. Reprint....

  • The Humanoids

    FIRST EQUINOX PRINTING. Jan. 1976 Avon trade paperback, Jack Williamson (Darker Than You Think). Clay Forester is a scientist working in a weapons laboratory on a distant planet, when a vast army of robotic "humanoids" land and, as they have done on ...

  • The Black Sun

    The future looks bleak when Project Starseed sends their final one-way ship from Earth to a dark world in the shadow of a dying star, but exploration teams on the long-dead planet awaken a mysterious entity that could mean salvation for the desperate...

  • The Silicon Dagger

    A declaration of independence In McAdam City, Kentucky, people are fed up with big government interfering in their lives, telling them what they can't do, sticking its nose into their private business, trying to keep them from protecting their leg...

  • Metal Man and Others

    Williamson was one of the gods of the old pulp sf/adventure magazines of yesteryear such as Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, Thrilling Mystery, etc., and at age 93 is still writing as well as teaching. The dozen stories included in this fourth vol...

  • Terraforming Earth

    Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelWhen a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. F...

  • Dragon's Island and Other Stories



  • The Stonehenge Gate

    AN EXTRAORDINARY IOURNEY TO THE STARS. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies and amateur adventurers who have discovered a dark mystery buried beneath the sands of the Sahara desert decide to do something about it. In the deep Sahara,...

  • The Worlds of Jack Williamson

    The Worlds of Jack Williamson celebrates the 100th birthday of one of the Grand Masters of science fiction. While Jack Williamson passed away in 2006 at the age of 98, his incredible body of work continues to be enjoyed by legions of fans and admirer...

  • Gateway to Paradise, The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six

  • Frozen Lightning

    In July 1943, at the height of World War II, Colin Bramble, an RAF pilot, parachutes behind enemy lines into Peenemunde, a small fishing village on the Baltic Sea. British Intelligence has learned that the Germans are building a secret rocket weapon ...

  • The Green Girl

    Love transcends. This doesn’t hold truer than in this pulp classic by Jack Williamson. Melvin Dane has been seeing a vision of a green girl since he was a child. Images of her came over the ether. Is she just fantasy? Or a reality that managed to c...

  • Dragon's Island

    Dane Belfast is a young scientist seeking the whereabouts of a missing geneticist and family friend. A visit to the mysterious Cadman Corporation results in his being drugged and whisked off to a secret location called Dragon's Island, where "not-men...

  • The Meteor Girl

  • With Folded Hands

    Seemingly perfect robotic "Humanoids" appear in the town of Two Rivers and offer residents a life free of work, stress and danger. But at what cost? "With Folded Hands" follows Mr. Underhill, as the Humanoids threaten his household, destroy his andro...

  • The Cosmic Express

    He was impartial as to the source of his thrills-provided they were distant enough from modern civilization. His hero was likely to be an ape-man roaring through the jungle, with a bloody rock in one hand and a beautiful girl in the other. Or a cowbo...

  • Salvage in Space

    His "planet" was the smallest in the solar system, and the loneliest, Thad Allen was thinking, as he straightened wearily in the huge, bulging, inflated fabric of his Osprey space armor. Walking awkwardly in the magnetic boots that held him to the bl...



  • The Wand of Doom

    I believe that Paul Telfair's unnatural fear of spiders was a dark heritage from the creeping, monstrous forebears of humanity, an atavistic survival from the things that wallowed and devoured one another in the ooze and slime of the primordial mud-f...

  • The Ultimate Earth

    Generations of clones on the moon chronicle the recovery of mother Earth, which has been destroyed and deserted. Eons have passed and a new generation of clones discover that their own base on the moon had been destroyed in the past and then rediscov...

  • The Ultimate Earth – Hugo and Nebula Winner

    Generations of clones on the moon chronicle the recovery of mother Earth, which has been destroyed and deserted. Eons have passed and a new generation of clones discover that their own base on the moon had been destroyed in the past and then rediscov...

  • The Humanoids and With Folded Hands

    On the far planet Wing IV, a brilliant scientist creates the humanoids, sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity. But are they perfect servants or perfect masters? Gradually the humanoids spread throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifl...

  • After World's End

    When Barry Horn ends up in a state of suspended animation, he is ultimately awakened in a era where humanity is at war with robots of their own creation. Visions he experienced during his hibernation may provide the clue needed for victory...A rousin...

  • The Stone from the Green Star

    Richard Smith, a former college athlete working on an oil tanker, is inadvertently kidnapped over two million years into the future by blind scientist, Midos Ken, and his beautiful and brilliant daughter, Thon Ahrora. Unable to return to his own time...

  • The Pygmy Planet

    Nothing ever happens to me! Larry Manahan grumbled under his breath, sitting behind his desk at the advertising agency which employed his services in return for the consideration of fifty a week. All the adventure I know is what I see in the movies, ...

  • The Lake of Light

    In the frozen wastes at the bottom of the world two explorers find a strange pool of white fire -- and have a strange adventure....

  • Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods

    One of the best things science fiction can offer is a fresh analysis of what it means to be human. This book delivers on that analysis -- in spades. Ordinarily, a review shouldn't provide a synopsis, but since one is not provided by Amazon.com, I'll ...

  • The Masked World and Other Science Fiction Stories by Jack Williamson

    THE MASKED WORLD AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES includes seven exciting stories by noted scifi writer Jack Williamson.• The Masked World• The Doom from Planet 4• Salvage in Space• The Cosmic Express• The Pygmy Planet•...



  • The Short Stories of Jack Williamson

    John Stewart Williamson was born on 29th April 1908 in Bisbee, Arizona Territory. His early years were spent in Western Texas and then New Mexico.Writing as Jack Williamson his first published story was ‘The Metal Man’ and it cover-featured on th...

  • Salvage In Space and Three More Stories

  • Famous Science Fiction #5

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    A replica of the digest FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION #5 from Winter 1967/68. Its fiction content features The Pygmy Planet by Jack Williamson, The City of Sleep by Laurence Manning, Plane People by Wllace West, Destroyers by Greg D. Bear, and Echo by Willi...

  • One Against the Legion

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    The Legion of Space

    Space Vengeance

    "I am omnipotent and omniscient. I want every man on every planet to shudder and grow pale when he thinks of Me. For I have suffered gross injuries that must be avenged..."

    This sinister message - and a loathsome ser...

  • Seetee Shock

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Award-Winning Books by Jack Williamson

Terraforming Earth
2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


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Jack Williamson has published 54 books.

Jack Williamson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Salvage In Space and Three More Stories, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Jack Williamson, Through the Purple Cloud, was published in May 1931.

Yes. Jack Williamson has 1 series.
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