From: <swstiles at comcast.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Jack Williamson
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:25:16 -0500
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From: "Elaine M Brennan" <elaine.brennan at att.net>
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Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 7:31 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Jack Williamson

>
> Jack Williamson died this morning, at home.   He was 98.
His most
> recent book was *The Stonenhenge Gate*, published in 2005.

I've enjoyed and collected his books, but one of my favorite
of Williamson's works was "Beyond Mars," which wasn't a
novel but a comic strip, beautifully illustrated by Lee
Elias. It only ran in New York's Daily News for about three
years. Beyond Mars was a nice counterpoint to more
traditional s.f. strips like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in
that the hero, Mike Flint, wasn't a glamorous protagonist,
like those two golden boys, but more of an ordinary
working-stiff trying to scratch out a living in the asteroid
belt. It all had had a very realistic, slice of future-life,
feel to it. I was happy to tell Williamson that, and got his
autograph on a paperback collection of Beyond Mars.

--Steve Stiles