Dane Belfast is a young scientist seeking the whereabouts of a missing geneticist and family friend. A visit to the mysterious Cadman Corporation results in his being drugged and whisked off to a secret location called Dragon's Island, where "not-men" and other strange creatures -- as well as human geniuses -- seem to be created. Dane can't tell who to trust in this fast-paced adventure, which is the first novel to use the term "genetic engineering". A ground-breaking novel by the author of DARKER THAN YOU THINK and THE HUMANOIDS.

Stories and reminiscences about his early life, times, and associations as a pulp writer in the 1920's and 1930's.Collects 11 early stories, with autobiographical introduction and remarks between stories. Contents: Introduction, essay by Jack Williamson; Scientifiction, Searchlight of Science, essay by Jack Williamson. Stories: The Metal Man; The Girl from Mars (excerpt), novelette by Jack Williamson and Miles J. Breuer, M.D.; The Cosmic Express; The Meteor Girl; Through the Purple Cloud; The Doom from Planet 4; Twelve Hours to Live!; The Plutonian Terror; Salvage in Space; "We Ain't Beggars;" Dead Star Station.

From Library JournalWilliamson was one of the gods of the old pulp sf/adventure magazines of yesteryear such as Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, Thrilling Mystery, etc., and at age 93 is still writing as well as teaching. The dozen stories included in this fourth volume of his collected works range in publication from 1936 to 1938. In addition to the title piece, there are "The Ice Entity," "The Devil in Steel," "Dreadful Sleep," and "The Legion of Time." This also sports an introduction and afterword by Williamson and an appendix. The series includes Vol. 1: The Metal Man and Others (ISBN 1-893887-02-2), Vol. 2: Wolves of Darkness (ISBN 1-893887-04-9), and Vol. 3: Wizard's Isle (ISBN 1-893887-08-1). Vintage sf at its best. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product DescriptionThis second volume continues the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Astounding Stories, Wonder Stories, and Amazing Stories, this volume features ten tales, four never published in book form, including novel-length adventure, The Stone from the Green Star. Also included are Williamson's letters and contest entries to the editors of the SF magainzes of the early 30's. The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by noted writer Harlan Ellison, Wolves of Darkness imparts the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.

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"I am omnipotent and omniscient. I want every man on every planet to shudder and grow pale when he thinks of Me. For I have suffered gross injuries that must be avenged..."This sinister message - and a loathsome serpent-like trademark - were the only clues the Legion of Space had to the identity of Mankind's most evasive and horrible enemy. But meanwhile, He or IT - had meticulously begun to destroy the world...The Legion of Space was well accustomed to facing mortal peril in the black depths of outer space in order to defend humanity against its unearthly foes. But even they were to find their courage and ingenuity tested to the utmost limits in their fight against the vile phantom that called itself God and shrouded the Universe in an incredible web of terror...

Product DescriptionThis book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.HP's patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience.

The Sea-Story Megapack presents 30 classic nautical works, ranging from pure adventure to science fiction, from the depths of the ocean to exotic ports of call.

In McAdam City, Kentucky, people are fed up with big government interfering with their lives, telling them what they can't do, sticking its nose into their private business, trying to keep them from protecting their legitimate interests from Uncle Sam. When an invisible barrier is put up to protect McAdam City, everything changes. This "silicone shell" is impervious to anything the army can throw against it. People are dying for the cause of personal freedom in this small Kentucky town, but they've finally found a way to fight big government with a digital technology greater than anything in the government's vast arsenal. Can one small town declare its independence from the United States? With the silicone dagger poised at the throat of the republic, just maybe...

Science Fiction. 8448 words long. First published in Astounding Stories, 1931

The Sea-Story Megapack presents 30 classic nautical works, ranging from pure adventure to science fiction, from the depths of the ocean to exotic ports of call.

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

I believe that Paul Telfair's unnatural fear of spiders was a dark heritage from the creeping, monstrous forebears of humanity, an atavistic survival from the things that wallowed and devoured one another in the ooze and slime of the primordial mud-flats where life began. The Wand of Doom by Jack Williamson was rated, by the readers of Weird Tales, as the best story published in its pages in 1923. Best known for his Science Fiction Williamson was also a master of Dark Fantasy.

Review"Darker Than You Think yields sheer enjoyment, generating wonder and suspense as Williamson springs his sequence of trap doors with the effortless agility of a master."--Peter Straub Product DescriptionThe unsettling dreams begin for small-town reporter Will Barbee not long after he first meets the mysterious and beautiful April Bell. They are vivid, powerful and deeply disturbing nightmares in which he commits atrocious acts. And, one by one, his friends are meeting violent deaths. It is clear to Barbee that he is embroiled in something far beyond human understanding, something unspeakably evil. And it intimately involves the seductive, dangerously intoxicating April, and the question, 'Who is the Child of the Night?' When he discovers the answer to that, his world will change utterly.