Bøger af John Stewart Williamson

"Nothing ever happens to me!" Larry Manahan grumbled under his breath, sitting behind his desk at the advertising agency which employed his services in return for the consideration of fifty a week. "All the adventure I know is what I see in the movies, or read about in magazines. What wouldn't I give for a slice of real life!" Unconsciously, he tensed the muscles of his six feet of lean, hard body. His crisp, flame-colored hair seemed to bristle; his blue eyes blazed. He clenched a brown hammer of a fist. Larry felt himself an energetic, red-blooded square peg, badly afflicted with the urge for adventure, miserably wedged in a round hole. It is one of the misfortunes of our civilization that a young man who, for example, might have been an excellent pirate a couple of centuries ago, must be kept chained to a desk. And that seemed to be Larry's fate. "Things happen to other people," he muttered. "Why couldn't an adventure come to me?" He sat, staring wistfully at a picture of a majestic mountain landscape, soon to be used in the advertising of a railway company whose publicity was handled by his agency, when the jangle of the telephone roused him with a start.

John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 - November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund. In this book: The Pygmy Planet The Cosmic Express Salvage in Space The Lake of Light The Meteor Girl

In this Volume ONE Ayn Rand Anthem Isaac Asimov Youth John Stewart Williamson The Pygmy Planet The Cosmic Express Salvage in Space The Lake of Light The Meteor Girl Charles Willard Diffin The Finding of Haldgren Brood of the Dark Moon Two Thousand Miles Below The Hammer of Thor Anthony Gilmore Hawk Carse The Bluff of the Hawk The Passing of Ku Sui The Affair of the Brains