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Walter Jon Williams

USA  (1953 - )
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About Walter Jon Williams
Walter Jon Williams has published twenty novels and short fiction collections. Most are science fiction or fantasy -Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind, Aristoi, Metropolitan, City on Fire to name just a few - a few are historical adventures, and the most recent, The Rift, is a disaster novel in which "I just basically pound a part of the planet down to bedrock." And that's just the opening chapters. Walter holds a fourth-degree black belt in Kenpo Karate, and also enjoys sailing and scuba diving. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Kathy Hedges.
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

This Is Not a Game
This Is Not a Game

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

This Is Not a Game
This Is Not a Game

Implied Spaces
Implied Spaces

Series
Privateers and Gentlemen (writing as Jon Williams)
1. The Privateer (1981)
2. The Yankee (1981)
3. The Raider (1981)
4. The Macedonian (1984)
5. Cat Island (1984)
The PrivateerThe YankeeThe RaiderThe Macedonian
Cat Island
 
HardwiredVoice of the Whirlwind
 
The Crown JewelsHouse of ShardsRock of Ages
 
Metropolitan
1. Metropolitan (1995)
2. City on Fire (1996)
MetropolitanCity on Fire
 
Dread Empire's Fall
1. The Praxis (2002)
2. The Sundering (2003)
3. Conventions of War (2004)
The PraxisThe SunderingConventions of War
 
Series contributed to
Destiny's Way
 
Anthologies containing stories by Walter Jon Williams
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual CollectionNebula Awards 23The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980sStrange Dreams
The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual CollectionWarriors of Blood and DreamThe Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual CollectionVisions of Wonder
War of the Worlds: Global DispatchesThe Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction 11th Annual CollectionThe Year's Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual CollectionFuture on Ice
The Year's Best Science Fiction Fifteenth Annual CollectionThe Good New StuffNot of Woman BornThe Furthest Horizon
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of AmericaThe Year's Best Science Fiction Seventeenth Annual Collection
 
Short stories
Side Effects (1985)
Video Star (1986)
Dinosaurs (1987)Hugo (nominee)
Witness (1987)Nebula (nominee)
Wolf Time (1987)
Consequences (1988)
Surfacing (1988)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
Prayers on the Wind (1992)Nebula (nominee)
Wall, Stone, Craft (1993)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
World Fantasy (nominee)
Red Elvis (1994)
Broadway Johnny (1995)
Foreign Devils (1996)
Lethe (1997)Nebula (nominee)
The Picture Business (1998)
Argonautica (1999)Nebula (nominee)
Daddy's World (1999)Nebula


Awards
Philip K Dick Award Best Novel nominee (1985) : Knight Moves
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1988) : Witness
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1988) : Dinosaurs
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1989) : Surfacing
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1989) : Surfacing
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1993) : Prayers on the Wind
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1994) : Wall, Stone, Craft
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1994) : Wall, Stone, Craft
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1994) : Wall, Stone, Craft
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1996) : Metropolitan
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1998) : City on Fire
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1998) : City on Fire
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1999) : Lethe
Nebula Best Novellette winner (2001) : Daddy's World
Nebula Best Novella nominee (2001) : Argonautica


Links to other websites
The OFFICIAL Walter Jon Williams web site!


Walter Jon Williams recommends
A Shadow in Summer
A Shadow in Summer (2006)
(Long Price Quartet, book 1)
Daniel Abraham
"In addition to the creation of an architecturally-perfect fantasy world filled with a fascinating, highly distinctive set of characters, Daniel Abraham has introduced into fantasy one brilliant, stunning new idea, a magic system in which the Word is made Flesh."



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