In it, one of his stories, “The Metal Man,” was featured on the table of contents. In the fall of 1928, Williamson enrolled in classes at the West Texas State Teachers College at Canyon, Texas, and while there, he received a copy of the December issue of Amazing Stories. He began to emulate the stories and mail them out to the growing number of Amazing Stories imitators on the market, and gathered up the resulting rejections. Merritt: “The Moon Pool” and “The Conquest of the Moon Pool.” The stories and the author’s style captured his attention so completely that Williamson decided that what he wanted to do with his life was to become a science fiction author. In particular, he was drawn to a pair of reprinted stories by A. The magazine and its bright cover attracted Williamson and he tore into the stories he found inside. However, at the age of 18, a friend gave him a copy of a new magazine: Amazing Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback. He eventually graduated from high school in 1925 with some vague intentions to pursue studies in science.
Growing up largely alone, Williamson was a shy and gawky teenager who faced taunts from his fellow classmates. Williamson and his siblings escaped from their bleak existence through the radio dramas they listened to and through their own imaginations-it wasn't until 1920 that Williamson began to attend public school. His parents came to the American Southwest seeking the opportunities that the new territory presented, but what they found was a difficult existence, the challenges of farming, unrest in Mexico, and attacks from local Native American tribes complicating their lives. John Stewart Williamson was born on April 29 th, 1908, in Bisbee, Arizona Territory, where he spent much of his childhood. Space opera has an incredibly long tradition within genre fiction, and one of the biggest names in the field is Jack Williamson. Major films such as Jupiter Ascending and Star Wars, and television events such as The Expanse, are hitting the big screen. Corey and Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch seires. We’ve seen the enormous successes of books such as The Expanse series by James S.A. In the last couple of years, there seems to have been new boom in space opera stories-epic tales that pit humanity against the universe.
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