Book description
It was the greatest empire of them all, spanning light- years,
gathering in the stars with a golden net. World after world - star after
star - all were snared together in a web of shimmering, golden tracery.
Each gleaming strand was a tube, the communications that turned the
harsh, metallic planet of Eron into the empire, a bridge between the
stars, flung across the wide, dark rivers of space... James Gunn (1923
- )
James Gunn is the author of 38 books, including The Joy Makers, Kampus,
The Dreamers, and The Immortals. He has served as the president of the
Science Fiction Writers of America and the Science Fiction Research
Association. He has won Hugo, Pilgrim, and Eaton awards and has been a
professor at the University of Kansas for 40 years. He lives in
Lawrence, Kansas. 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.
