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Jack Williamson

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    (April 29, 1908-November 10, 2006)
    Born in Bisbee, Arizona
    American science fiction author
    Novels include 'The Girl from Mars,' 'The Blue Spot,' 'The Black Sun,' 'Firechild,' and 'The Stonehenge Gate'
    Short stories include 'The Metal Man,' 'The Moon Era,' 'Star Bright,' 'The Firefly Tree,' and 'The Ultimate Earth'
    Education: BA and MA in English from Eastern New Mexico University and PhD from the University of Colorado
    Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Science Fiction Writers of America Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master awards
    Wrote the autobiography 'Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction'
    Believed to have coined the term 'terraforming'

Why he might be annoying:

    He went uncredited for his only work to be filmed, the movie 'The Creation of the Humanoids.'
    He is the oldest winner ever of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, not receiving them until he was in his nineties.
    He is virtually forgotten outside of hardcore science fiction circles.
    He wrote a newspaper comic strip.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was much loved as a writer by the hardcore science fiction community and is considered by it to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time.
    He grew up in a poor farming family.
    He suffered from emotional problems in his early twenties but emerged from treatment much better and a vastly improved writer.
    He published his first story at age twenty.
    After attaining his PhD from the University of Colorado, he returned to Eastern New Mexico University to teach there for years.
    He served in WWII.
    There was a very clear evolution in his writing style over the decades, all the time maintaining an awesome level of quality.
    He was a major influence on other writers such as superfan Isaac Asimov.

Credit: tom_jeffords


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 37.50% Annoying