The Stonehenge Gate

Name: The Stonehenge Gate
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack Williamson
ISBN: 9781455107889

Author: Jack Williamson

Narrator: Harlan Ellison

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Jack Williamson, the dean of science fiction writers, weaves an exciting tale that takes four friends to the far corners of the universe. One leads an oppressed people to freedom. Another uncovers clues that could identify a longdormant civilization of immortal beings. Now each traveler must play a crucial role in unraveling an ancient mystery, the solution to which may reveal the true origins of the human race.

About Jack Williamson

Jack Williamson (1908–2006) published his first short story in 1928 and produced entertaining, thought-provoking science fiction from then on. The second person named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, he was always in the forefront of the field, being the first to write fiction about genetic engineering (he invented the term), antimatter, and other cutting-edge science. A Renaissance man, he was a master of fantasy and horror as well as science fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandy

What do you plan to do when you're 97 years old? Me? If I'm fortunate enough to attain to that ripe old age, I suppose I will be eating pureed Gerber peaches and watching Emma Peel reruns on my TV set in the nursing home...IF I'm lucky. For sci-fi Grand Master Jack Williamson, the age of 97 meant an......more

Goodreads review by Craig

This is a fine adventure novel, the last that Williamson produced before his death. Several of the reviews I've read seen have suggested it borrows from the Stargate television show, which I think is absolutely wrong. Williamson was one of the top writers in the field from the late 1920's through al......more

Goodreads review by Tim

_The Stonehenge Gate_ by Jack Williamson reminds me of some of the older, "Golden Age" science fiction stories I read in anthologies growing up, in books I found in my Dad's collection or in used bookstores, where educated, adventurous but otherwise seemingly normal people come across alien artifact......more

Goodreads review by James

A Bit of Familiar Plot: They call themselves The Four Horsemen! Four academics hang out at a poker game in Portales, New Mexico after some teaching/researching at the local university. Checking out some satellite images, they find a gate of sorts in the middle of the Sahara Desert and buried under a......more