Liz Williams
Liz Williams is a British science fiction writer, historian and occultist. The Ghost Sister, her first novel, was published in 2001. Both this novel and her next, Empire of Bones were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. She is also the author of the Inspector Chen series.
Williams is the daughter of a stage magician and a Gothic novelist. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge. She has had short stories published in Asimov's, Interzone, The Third Alternative and Visionary Tongue. From the mid-nineties until 2000, she lived and worked in Kazakhstan. Her experiences there are reflected in her 2003 novel Nine Layers of Sky. This novel brings into the modern era the Bogatyr Ilya Muromets and Manas the hero of the Epic of Manas. Her novels have been published in the US and the UK, while her third novel The Poison Master has been translated into Dutch.
Williams practices modern Druidry and co-owns a pagan and esoteric store in Glastonbury. In 2020, she published a popular history book about modern paganism in the United Kingdom, Miracles of Our Own Making.
Novels
- The Ghost Sister - Philip K. Dick Award nominee
- Empire of Bones - Philip K. Dick Award nominee
- The Poison Master
- Nine Layers of Sky
- Worldsoul
- Banner of Souls - Shortlisted for the 20th Arthur C. Clarke Award, Philip K. Dick Award nominee
- Winterstrike
- Phosphorus
- Comet Weather
- Blackthorn Winter
- Embertide
- Salt on the Midnight Fire
- Darkland
- Bloodmind
- Snake Agent - Published in French as La traite des âmes
- The Demon and the City
- Precious Dragon
- The Shadow Pavilion
- The Iron Khan
- ''Morningstar''
Short fiction
- The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Other Stories
- A Glass of Shadow
- Vodyanoy/Loosestrife
- The Light Warden
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
| Tycho and the Stargazer | 2003 | Asimov's Science Fiction Vol 27, No 12 | ||
| Out of Scarlight | 2013 | Old Mars | ||
| The marriage of the sea | 2015 |
Nonfiction
- Miracles of Our Own Making
- Modern Handfasting
- Diary of a Witchcraft Shop
- Diary of a Witchcraft Shop 2
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