Author Jack Williamson dead at 98

Pioneer science fiction author Jack Williamson has died at the age of 98 at his home in Portales, N.M., of natural causes.

‘Jack Williamson was one of the great science-fiction writers,’ writer Ray Bradbury told The Los Angeles Times Monday. ‘He did a series of novels which affected me as a young writer with dreams. I met him at 19, and he became my best friend and teacher.’

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