 | Another Grand Master goneNovember 11th, 2006 |
KVIA.com in El Paso is reporting that Jack Williamson has passed away at the age of 98.
He will perhaps be best remembered for Darker Than You Think, a stunning novel of slipping into wildness (I once used it as a comparison to the work of Christopher Isherwood in a grad school seminar), and of course the classic The Humanoids… but he remained astonishingly contemporary into his very last years, writing books that seemed to come from the pen of someone a quarter of his age.
I highly recommend his Wonder’s Child: My Life in Science Fiction, an autobiography that takes you from rural farm boy to professor in an astonishing career that seems like science fiction in itself.
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