# Trying to find an early Jack Williamson sf story

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**Created:** [October 16, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-early-jack-williamson-sf-story/671375 "2013-10-16T04:19:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-early-jack-williamson-sf-story/671375/1 "2013-10-16T04:19:16Z")

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I recently came across a reference (but no story title, dammit) to an early-Thirties story by Williamson about a multinational team of scientists stranded on Mars when their respective countries go to war back on Earth. The story was apparently in published in _Wonder_ magazine. I got three Williamson collections from the library and didn’t find anything like that in any of them.

Anyone know the story?

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-early-jack-williamson-sf-story/671375/2 "2013-10-16T13:27:22Z")

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[Summary Bibliography: Jack Williamson](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?256) has a list of all Williamson’s stories, in order of publication. “Red Slag of Mars” ([Title: Red Slag of Mars](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?99534)) was published in Wonder, so that seems promising

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-early-jack-williamson-sf-story/671375/3 "2013-10-16T15:51:02Z")

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Thanks - I’ll take a look.

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-early-jack-williamson-sf-story/671375/4 "2013-10-16T16:10:33Z")

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By the way, I found a publisher that is publishing the complete works of Williamson in multiple volumes; this link has the table of contents for each volume, with the date and location of each publication listed - this should help your search [The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson](http://haffnerpress.com/tcsojw.html)