Gateway to Paradise, The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six (Hardcover)

by Jack Williamson (Author), Stephen Haffner (Editor), Rudolph Belarski (Illustrator)

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Haffner's as-yet-uncompleted achievement in resurrecting...Jack Williamson's short fiction is as good as publishing gets. --Paul Di Filippo, SciFi . com

I have no hesitation in placing Jack Williamson on a plane with two other giants, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. --Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Product Description
Grand Master Jack Williamson passed away last year at the age of 98, but the ambitious program to collect his short fiction continues. Of the 10 tales in this collection (three of which are full-length novels!) over half have never been reprinted before. Featured is the first book appearance of the original novella-length version of "Darker Than You Think," and the magazine texts of "The Reign of Wizardry," and "Gateway to Paradise." Williamson's afterword has 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 and Scott) of the stories herein, and the binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson's works published by Fantasy Press. Several volumes in this series are already out of print, so make sure to reserve your copy to avoid disappointment.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 570 pages
• Publisher: Haffner Press; 1st edition (July 31, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893887278
• ISBN-13: 978-1893887275
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #948,569 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Gold Age of pulp magazines, September 3, 2008

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

Jack Williamson was one of the enduringly popular luminaries from the Gold Age of pulp magazines. While he wrote stories across a spectrum of genre subjects, he is best known for his creative imagination in spinning out science fiction and fantasy yarns. Haffner Press is collecting his works in an impressive hardcover series. The newest addition is "Gateway To Paradise" is a compilation of ten stories he wrote from 1940 to 1941 and includes the original texts of 'The Reign of Wizardry" and the 40,000 word version of 'Darker Than You Think'. This volume also features a 'Foreword' by Frederick Pohl and continues with the Jack William stories 'The Sun Maker'; 'The Crystal of Death'; 'The Girl in the Bottle'; 'Racketeers in the Sky'; Ashes of Iron; 'The Star of Dreams', 'The Iron God', and concludes with an 'Afterword' by Jack Williamson himself. Of special note are full color reproductions of the pulp magazine covers for those issues of "Unknown", "Thrilling "Wonder", "Stardust"; "Super Science"; "Argosy"; "Comet"; "Marvel Stories"; "Startling Stories" in which the original stories debuted as this volume's end paper artwork. An especially nice enhancement is a black-and-white photo of Jack Williamson when he wrote these stories more than 60 years ago, and another color photograph of Jack Williamson in 2006. Commonly acknowledged by fans and writers alike as the "Dean of Science Fiction', he died on November 10, 2006 at the age of ninety-eight -- but his is a literary legacy that will live on for many generations yet to come. "Gateway To Paradise" is an essential addition to personal, academic, and community library Science Fiction & Fantasy collections -- and will stimulate a whole new generation of readers to seek out the previous volumes in this outstanding series to read more of his work, including the bibliographic listing of his writings (including his collaborations with others) provided at the very beginning of this collection.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Classic sf stories to enjoy! , March 27, 2009

By	J. M. Van Heiningen (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Another hefty compendium of classic science fiction and fantasy stories, by a writer whose whole lifespan has been dedicated to write and promote this form of literature. In addition to this, the stories are still fun after all these years! I definitely recommend this whole series to anyone
who likes to have a NICE LONG READ!