RIP, Jack Williamson

One of the last of the Golden-Age SF writers has departed the stage at the age of 98. His Seetee Shock and Seetee Ship, which I picked up in a tattered secondhand omnibus edition sometime before I was ten years old, were among the first serious, book -length science fiction stories I ever read. By all accounts, he was an excellent teacher and a generous and wise man as well as a talented writer who knew how to combine real science and plausible speculation with exciting storytelling.

Reported by Locus, the Alberquerque Tribune, etc.