Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams (born October 15, 1953) is an American science fiction writer.

Easton Press Walter Jon Williams books

  Metropolitan - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1995

  The Rift - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 1999

 

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Author Walter Jon Williams

Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired (also an homage to Roger Zelazny's novel Damnation Alley), Voice of the Whirlwind and Angel Station. However, he has explored a number of different styles and genres, including farce (e.g., the Majistral series), postcyberpunk space opera (Aristoi), military science fiction (Dread Empire's Fall series), alternative history (Wall, Stone, Craft), science fantasy (Metropolitan and City on Fire), disaster thriller (The Rift), a Star Wars novel (The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way) and historical adventure (Privateers and Gentlemen series), and police procedural (Days of Atonement), usually in a science fiction context. He has also contributed to some of the Wild Cards cooperative novels.

Williams was born in Duluth, Minnesota and attended the University of New Mexico, where he received his BA degree in 1975. He currently lives in Valencia County, south of Albuquerque in New Mexico.

Williams played roleplaying games (in a group with other sf authors including George R. R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass) and has written both fiction and rulebooks for the games Privateers and Gentlemen from Fantasy Games Unlimited and Cyberpunk from R. Talsorian Games.

In 2006, Williams founded the Taos Toolbox, a two-week writer's workshop for fantasy and science fiction writers. 

Walter Jon Williams books in order

Hardwired series
Hardwired (1986)
Solip:System (1989)
Voice of the Whirlwind (1987)
Angel Station (1989)

Drake Maijstral series
The Crown Jewels (1987)
House of Shards (1988)
Rock of Ages (1995)

Metropolitan series
Metropolitan (1995)
City on Fire (1997)

Dread Empire's Fall series
The Praxis (2002)
The Sundering (2003)
The Conventions of War (2005)

Privateers and Gentlemen series (as Jon Williams)
To Glory Arise, originally The Privateer (1981)
The Tern Schooner, originally The Yankee (1981)
Brig of War, originally The Raider (1981)
The Macedonian (1981)
Cat Island (1981)

Dagmar Shaw series
This Is Not a Game (2009)
Deep State (2011)
The Fourth Wall (2012)

Other novels
Ambassador of Progress (1984)
Knight Moves (1985)
Elegy for Angels and Dogs (1990)
Days of Atonement (1991)
Aristoi (1992)
The Rift (1999 as Walter J. Williams)
The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way (2002)
Implied Spaces (2008)

Short fiction
Dinosaurs (1987)
Witness (1987)
Surfacing (1988)
Solip:System (1989)
Prayers on the Wind (1991)
Wall, Stone, Craft (1993)
Foreign Devils in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (1996)
Lethe (1999)
Daddy's World (2000)
Argonautica (2001)
The Last Ride of German Freddie, in Worlds That Weren't (2002)
The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid (2004)
The Green Leopard Plague (2004)

Short fiction collections
Facets (1990)
Frankensteins and Foreign Devils (1998)
The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (2010)
 

 

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