Jack Williamson

Un repentino ataque de curiosidad lleva al Sahara al afable catedrático inglés Will Stone y a sus tres amigos, para realizar excavaciones en un emplazamiento en el que el radar ha detectado que bajo la tierra se esconde un conjunto de piedras de gran tamaño. Alli encuentran una antigua estructura, una puerta de comunicacion entre los diferentes planetas que une la Tierra con mundos lejanos, donde descubriran maravillas y horrores que superan lo imaginable. Pero solo si son capaces de sobrevivir para volver a la Tierra... El autor entreteje una historia apasionante que transporta a los amigos a los confines del universo. Ahora cada viajero debe representar un papel vital para desvelar un antiguo misterio, cuya solucion puede mostrar los verdaderos origenes de la raza humana. Jack Williamson es un escritor magistral que una vez mas pone de relieve toda su habilidad narrativa en El misterio de Stonehenge, su ultima novela.

Un repentino ataque de curiosidad lleva al Sahara al afable catedráticoinglés Will Stone y a sus tres amigos, para realizar excavaciones en un emplazamiento en el que el radar ha detectado que bajo la tierra se escon-de un conjunto de piedras de gran tamaño. Alli encuentran una antigua estructura, una puerta de comunicacion entre los diferentes planetas que une la Tierra con mundos lejanos, donde descubriran maravillas y horrores que superan lo imaginable.Pero solo si son capaces de sobrevivir para volver a la Tierra...El autor entreteje una historia apasionante que transporta a los amigos a los confines del universo. Ahora cada viajero debe representar un papel vital para desvelar un antiguo misterio, cuya solucion puede mostrar los verdaderos origenes de la raza humana.

From the depths of space the Seeker had come, to make the Solar system her nest. The invader was defeated, but not before the Earth was ravaged, its technology destroyed and its inhabitants reduced to barbarism. Mankinds only chance for salvation lay with the alien Eldren - but the Eldren considered humanity primitive and savage, and so they withheld their help. Young Benn Dain hoped to prove humanitys worth on Mazeway, a planetary doublet whose twin worlds, Blade and Stone, were a testing ground for Eldren young. For Roxane Kwan and Diego Bolivar, Mazeway was a path to control of the dying Earth, and Dains quest was not part of their plans. But the Game of Blade and Stone was not designed for humans, and to survive, they would have to work together to fathom the depths of alien minds and the subtle traps of Eldren way...

In the beginning... ... there was Egan Drake, the genius who dreamed of spreading mankind among the galaxies. Then came Megan, who took on her brothers mantle and made his imaginings real. She gathered around her the finest in their fields - biology and astronautics, computer science and fusion propulsion - and fired them with her vision. And finally was born The Project: a thousand tiny spacecraft crawling like electromechanical wombs towards the stars, each bearing the genetic seeds for a future colony of man. And some fell on stony ground, and some fell on fertile ground and some...

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 ten battleships and subsisted on a diet of heavy metals, preferably radioactive. Soon the seekers began their own Lifeburst, flying to nearby stars, evolving, eating, destroying...Our solar system was next.

A missing relative...Something of value was buried beneath the underwater dome city of Marinia...something that had already cost one mans life, caused another mans kidnapping and gravely affected still another mans future.Expelled from the Sub-Sea Academy on trumped-up charges, Jim Eden wasnt about to wait around to prove his innocence. As soon as he leaned that his uncle mysteriously disappeared while mining uranium at the bottom of hazardous Eden Deep, Jim knew what he had to do...and that he had to do it fast.So he headed for the vast dome city - location of the great mining colony at the bottom of the sea - to pick up any clues to his uncles disappearance. But once he had entered the undersea metropolis, the wrong people had his number...and they were determined that Jim would sink forever without a trace.

Everyone at the Academy knew that sea serpents were, without a doubt, silly superstitions. Everyone but David Craken, that is. This young cadet from Marinia had been born and raised four miles beneath the waves, and he knew that more than rich new fuel sources and precious stones lay in wait for the men who dared invade this last frontier.But when David dived into the depths at thirteen hundred feet and disappeared - only to reappear, drifting offshore months later - his friend Jim Eden learned there was more truth to certain superstitions than he cared to believe. On a strange and hazardous journey, Jim and the men of the Sub-Sea Academy suddenly found themselves up against the dangerous creatures of the deep - and embroiled in a life-against-life adventure they would never forget!

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 rediscovered and rebuilt by the man known as Sandor Pen. In the meantime the remnants of humanity have just started unlocking the mysteries of interstellar flight, but over the years their memory of old Earth has faded ... a memory Sandor Pen intends to reignite.The Ultimate Earth is classic Williamson. A multi-layered story with subtle interpretations. The novella was published to much critical acclaim, winning both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Sam Houston Kellington had from boyhood known that he would someday fly to Mars. But what children dream of is often far different in reality from what one could ever imagine. Having been chosen as one of a select crew Kelligan does go to Mars, only to be marooned with a crippled spacecraft, afflicted with a debilitating illness, and abandoned by crewmates. Aided by one brave woman Kelligan must somehow find a way to survive the rigors of the hostile planet and return to Earth before the members of the first manned mission to Mars have all succumbed.

A genetic experiment gone wrong produces a tiny pink "worm" that matures into a beautiful woman whose superhuman powers propel her toward a unique destiny.

From The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to the incredible career of Jack Williamson, whose career spanned over seventy years. Jack Williamson published his first SF story, The Metal Man, in 1928 and continued to write high quality SF until his death in 2006, along the way coining many of the terms the genre now takes for granted, such as terraforming and genetic engineering. He was the second writer (after Heinlein) to be named a SFWA Grand Master and was the oldest recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. This volume contains The Legion of Space, the first volume in the eponymous series; The Humanoids; John W. Campbell Award-winning Terraforming Earth and his Hugo Award-winning autobiography Wonders Child: My Life in Science Fiction.

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 Fiction Hall of Fame, and he received the Stoker Award and World fantasy awards for life time achievements. He is the author of the Legion of Space series.

El día del Armagedón ha alcanzado la Tierra en forma de asteroide, aniquilando en un solo instante millones de años de evolución. Terraformar la Tierra es la historia de la esperanza de la humanidad contada por Duncan Yare. A lo largo de miles de millones de años veremos renacer la Tierra no una sino varias veces. Los sucesivos clones de Duncan documentaran los esfuerzos de sus compañeros y los suyos propios por devolverle al planeta la gloria perdida. A pesar de los fracasos, a pesar de los enfrentamientos, a pesar del miedo... no se rinden jamas. Terraformar la Tierra es un canto a la esperanza y a la vida. Una historia que se repite y sin embargo siempre tiene elementos nuevos, siempre es diferente, siempre nos muestra una faceta original de un personaje que nunca deja de ser el mismo. Jack Williamson ha creado unos personajes inolvidables, protagonistas de un relato que lo tiene todo: suspense, magia, fracasos, triunfos.... y un final sorprendente.

Un repentino ataque de curiosidad lleva al Sahara al afable catedráticoinglés Will Stone y a sus tres amigos, para realizar excavaciones en un emplazamiento en el que el radar ha detectado que bajo la tierra se escon-de un conjunto de piedras de gran tamaño. Alli encuentran una antigua estructura, una puerta de comunicacion entre los diferentes planetas que une la Tierra con mundos lejanos, donde descubriran maravillas y horrores que superan lo imaginable.Pero solo si son capaces de sobrevivir para volver a la Tierra...El autor entreteje una historia apasionante que transporta a los amigos a los confines del universo. Ahora cada viajero debe representar un papel vital para desvelar un antiguo misterio, cuya solucion puede mostrar los verdaderos origenes de la raza humana.

Jack Williamson, Gran Maestro de la Ciencia Ficción desde 1975, es un escritor magistral que una vez más pone de relieve toda su habilidad narrativa en esta novela, llena de acción, suspense y motivos de reflexion sobre nuestro futuro a corto y largo plazo. Una extraordinaria inmersion en las consecuencias de un desastre ecologico global y en los esfuerzos, los sueños y las esperanzas de una humanidad que lucha por sobrevivir. Se llevo el Premio Hugo de 2001 de novela corta por delante de autores como Ted Chiang o Lucius Shepard.