![]() He strove to write his own fiction and sold his first story to Gernsback at age 20: "The Metal Man" was published in the December 1928 issue of Amazing. As a young man, he discovered the magazine Amazing Stories, established in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback, after answering an ad for one free issue. The Reefs of Space, which Williamson cowrote with Frederik Pohl, was serialized in If in 1963Īs a child Williamson enjoyed storytelling to his brother and two sisters. Army Air Corps in World War II as a weather forecaster. The farming was difficult there and the family turned to ranching, which they continue to this day near Pep. In search of better pastures, his family migrated to rural New Mexico in a horse-drawn covered wagon in 1915. ![]() He spent much of the rest of his early childhood in western Texas. According to his own account, the first three years of his life were spent on a ranch at the top of the Sierra Madre Mountains on the headwaters of the Yaqui River in Sonora, Mexico. Williamson was born April 29, 1908, in Bisbee, Arizona Territory. ![]() Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. He is also credited with one of the first uses of the term genetic engineering. ![]() John Stewart Williamson (Ap– November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction". ![]()
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