Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Jack Williamson
Born: April 29, 1908
Died: November 10, 2006 (aged 98)
Bio: John Stewart Williamson, who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund.
Known for:
- Darker Than You Think (1948)
- The Legion of Space (1947)
- The Humanoids (1949)
- Star Bridge (1955)
- The Legion of Time (1952)