Book description
Dane Belfast is a young scientist seeking the whereabouts of a missing
geneticist and family friend. A visit to the mysterious Cadman
Corporation results in his being drugged and whisked off to a secret
location called Dragon's Island, where "not-men" and other
strange creatures - as well as human geniuses - seem to be created. Dane
can't tell who to trust in this fast-paced adventure, which is the first
novel to use the term "genetic engineering".
Jack Williamson (1908 - 2006)
John Stewart 'Jack' Williamson was born in Arizona in 1908 and raised
in an isolated New Mexico farmstead. After the Second World War, he
acquired degrees in English at the Eastern New Mexico University,
joining the faculty there in 1960 and remaining affiliated with the
school for the rest of his life. Williamson sold his first story at the
age of 20 - the beginning of a long, productive and successful career,
which started in the pulps, took in the Golden Age and extended right
into his nineties. He was the second author, after Robert A. Heinlein,
to be named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by SFWA, and by far the
oldest recipient of the Hugo (2001, aged 93) and Nebula (2002, aged 94)
awards. A significant voice in SF for over six decades, Jack Williamson
is credited with inventing the terms 'terraforming' and 'genetic
engineering'. He died in 2006.
