- Publication: At the Human LimitPublication Record # 391475
- Author: Jack Williamson
- Date: 2011-00-00
- ISBN: 978-1-893887-52-7 [1-893887-52-9]
- Publisher: Haffner Press
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Price: $150.00?$: US dollar
- Pages: xxi+590
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: COLLECTION
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Notes:
- Edition statement: First Edition
- Limited edition of 75 numbered slipcased copies
- 2015-04-08 The ISBN 978-1-893887-52-7 / 1-893887-52-9 is not found on Amazon.com though it's on Amazon Canada which reports the book is "Currently unavailable." The ISBN is not found on sites such as AbeBooks and BookFinder. It's possible the ISBN recorded here is wrong or is not stated in the publication. Google for "1-893887-52-9" only finds this ISFDB page and Fantastic Fiction which got their data from Amazon Canada.
Collection Title:
At the Human Limit • [The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson • 8] • (2011) • collection by Jack Williamson
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- fep • Amazing Stories, November 1988 (cover) • (2004) • interior artwork by Robert J. Pasternak (variant of cover art for Amazing Stories, November 1988 1988)
- fep • Fantastic, April 1959 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Ed Valigursky (variant of cover art for Fantastic, April 1959 1959) [as by Edward Valigursky]
- fep • Galaxy Magazine, December 1969 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan and Phoebe Gaughan (variant of cover art for Galaxy Magazine, December 1969 1969)
- fep • Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November-December 1978 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by George Barr (variant of cover art for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November-December 1978 1978)
- fep • JD Journal (cover) • (1983) • interior artwork by uncredited
- fep • Omni, October 1992 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by John Berkey (variant of cover art for Omni, October 1992 1992)
- fep • Science Fiction Age, July 1998 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Luis Royo (variant of cover art for Voice of the Whirlwind 1987)
- fep • Science Fiction Age, May 1997 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by John Berkey (variant of cover art for Science Fiction Age, May 1997 1997)
- fep • Science Fiction Monthly, January 1976 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Jim Burns (variant of cover art for The Sirens of Titan 1975)
- fep • Speculations (cover) • (1982) • interior artwork by uncredited
- fep • Stellar Science Fiction #6 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Jon Lomberg (variant of cover art for Stellar #6: Science-Fiction Stories 1981)
- fep • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1993 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Jacek Yerka (variant of cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1993 1993)
- fep • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1992 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Ron Walotsky (variant of cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1992 1992)
- fep • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1997 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Jill Bauman (variant of cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1997 1997)
- fep • The Planets (cover) • (1985) • interior artwork by uncredited
- fep • VB Tech Journal, July 1996 (cover) • (1996) • interior artwork by Amy Crehore
- fep • Worlds of Tomorrow, October 1963 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay (variant of cover art for Worlds of Tomorrow, October 1963 1963)
- xv • Jack Williamson: The Man Who Invented the Future • (2011) • essay by Connie Willis
- 1 • Second Man to the Moon • (1959) • novelette by Jack Williamson
- 21 • The Masked World • (1963) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 25 • Jamboree • (1969) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 37 • The Highest Dive • (1976) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 49 • Farside Station • [Medea] • (1978) • novella by Jack Williamson
- 87 • ... All Ye Who Enter Here • (1981) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 105 • A Break for the Dinosaurs • (1982) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 113 • Space Family Smiths • (1983) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 117 • At the Human Limit • (1985) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 133 • The Mental Man • (1988) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 143 • The Birds' Turn • (1992) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 157 • Venus Is Hell • (1992) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 173 • The Litlins • (1993) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 187 • The Fractal Man • (1996) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 205 • The Firefly Tree • (1997) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 211 • The Hole in the World • (1997) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 217 • The Purchase of Earth • (1998) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 229 • The Story Roger Never Told • (1998) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 239 • Pet Rocks Mystery • (2011) • short story by Jack Williamson (variant of The Pet Rocks Mystery 1998)
- 249 • Miss Million • (1999) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 259 • Eden Star • (2000) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 273 • Nitrogen Plus • (2001) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 287 • Afterlife • (2002) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 303 • The Planet of Youth • (2002) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 317 • Shakespeare & Co. • (2002) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 329 • The Man from Somewhere • (2003) • novelette by Jack Williamson
- 355 • Black Hole Station • (2004) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 369 • Devil's Star • (2004) • novelette by Jack Williamson
- 389 • Dream of Earth • (2004) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 393 • The Half Men • (2005) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 405 • The Cat That Loved Shakespeare • (2005) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 419 • Ghost Town • (2005) • short fiction by Jack Williamson
- 431 • The Mists of Time • (2006) • novelette by Jack Williamson
- 449 • A Christmas Carol • (2007) • short story by Jack Williamson
- 453 • Afterword (At the Human Limit) • (2011) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 466 • Modes of Science Fiction • (1968) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 468 • By the Way • (1969) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 470 • Science Fiction: Emerging From Its Exile in Limbo • (1971) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 479 • H. G. Wells: The Man Who Discovered Tomorrow • (1972) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 488 • Plotting "Jamboree" • (1973) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 494 • Science Fiction: An Art of the Possible • (1974) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 512 • By Covered Wagon to Dry Land Farm • (1975) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 517 • Edmond Hamilton: An Appreciation • (1977) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 519 • Anatomies of Egotism: A Reading of the Last Novels of H. G. Wells • (1977) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 522 • Frederik Pohl • (1979) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 524 • Beaming Thoughts Into Space • (1979) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 526 • SF in Yugoslavia • (1980) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 529 • The God Instinct • (1980) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 531 • The Scientist, the Humanist, and Us • [Tomorrow] • (1981) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 536 • SF Abroad • (1982) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 542 • SF and the Actual Future • (1983) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 548 • Gordon Greaves: A Journalist's Journalist • (1986) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 552 • Uranus Flyby • (1986) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 554 • How Not to Write a Novel • (1988) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 559 • On the Flyby • (1990) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 560 • Letter (Portales News-Tribune, September 19, 1993): Author Dislikes Intolerance • (1993) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 561 • On Science Fiction in College • (1996) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 564 • Welcome to the 21st Century • (2000) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 568 • The Evolution of the Martians • (2005) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 578 • King Kong: A Parable of Progress • (2005) • essay by Jack Williamson
- bep • Absolute Magnitude, Spring 2005 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Dominic Harman (variant of cover art for Absolute Magnitude, Spring 2005 2005) [as by Dominic Emile Harman]
- bep • Alien Pets • (1999) • interior artwork by Luis Royo (variant of cover art for Alien Pets 1998)
- bep • Amazing Stories, November 2004 (cover) • (2004) • interior artwork by uncredited
- bep • Amazing Stories, Winter 1999 (cover) • (2004) • interior artwork by Joe DeVito (variant of cover art for Amazing Stories, Winter 1999 1999)
- bep • Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2001 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Fred Gambino (variant of cover art for Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2001 2001)
- bep • Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2003 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Fred Gambino (variant of cover art for Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2003 2003)
- bep • Chronicle, August 2005 (cover) • (2005) • interior artwork by uncredited
- bep • Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny (cover) • (1988) • interior artwork by uncredited
- bep • Millennium 3001 (cover) • (2006) • interior artwork by G-Force Design
- bep • Shelf Life (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by John Picacio (variant of cover art for Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores 2002)
- bep • Space Stations (cover) • (2004) • interior artwork by Corbis and Getty Images
- bep • Star Colonies (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Vincent Di Fate (variant of cover art for Forward in Time 1982)
- bep • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2002 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Maurizio Manzieri (variant of cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2002 2002)
- bep • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2002 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Michael Garland (variant of cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2002 2002)
- bep • The Worlds of Jack Williamson (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Vincent Di Fate (variant of cover art for SunCon: Thirty-Fifth World Science Fiction Convention 1977) [as by Vincent Di Fater]
- bep • Visions of Liberty (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by Carol Heyer (variant of cover art for Visions of Liberty 2004)
- bep • Weird Tales, July 2005 (cover) • (2011) • interior artwork by George Barr (variant of cover art for Weird Tales, July 2005 2005)
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