From The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to the incredible career of Jack Williamson, whose career spanned over seventy years. Jack Williamson published his first SF story, 'The Metal Man', in 1928 and continued to write high quality SF until his death in 2006, along the way coining many of the terms the genre now takes for granted, such as 'terraforming' and 'genetic engineering'. He was the second writer (after Heinlein) to be named a SFWA Grand Master and was the oldest recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. This volume contains The Legion of Space, the first volume in the eponymous series; The Humanoids; John W. Campbell Award-winning Terraforming Earth and his Hugo Award-winning autobiography Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction.

ジャック・ウィリアムスンは、テラフォーミング等の語彙を創り出したSF界の巨人です。彼の本質は、科学的先見性と「完璧な管理が人間性を奪う」という幸福の逆説を描く鋭い洞察にあります。壮大な宇宙劇の深層に「人間とは何か」という問いを潜ませる文学的強度は、今も読者の魂を激しく揺さぶります。 映像版が巨大なメカ等の視覚的驚きを強調するのに対し、活字でしか味わえないのは「驚異の念」の内面的な深化です。映像が外的な躍動を見せる一方で、原作は技術の裏にある孤独や葛藤を緻密に描写します。視覚と精神の相乗効果こそが、彼が夢見た宇宙の真の広がりを体感させるのです。