Walter Jon Williams


Walter Jon Williams is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Previously he wrote nautical adventure fiction under the name Jon Williams, in particular, Privateers and Gentlemen, a series of historical novels set during the Age of Sail.

Career

Writing as Jon Williams, he designed the war game Tradition of Victory and role-playing game Promotions and Prizes, which were republished by Fantasy Games Unlimited as Heart of Oak and Privateers and Gentlemen. A role-playing game sourcebook for Cyberpunk called Hardwired was licensed by R. Talsorian Games, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Williams.

Publications

Novels

  • Hardwired series
  • * Hardwired
  • * Solip:System, novelette released as a standalone book
  • * Voice of the Whirlwind
  • * "Wolf Time", novelette
  • Drake Maijstral series
An SF comedy of manners series about the aristocratic burglar Drake Maijstral. Collected as an omnibus, Ten Points for Style
A military science fiction/space opera series.
  • * The Praxis
  • * The Sundering
  • * Conventions of War
  • * Investments, novella
  • * Impersonations
  • * The Accidental War
  • * Fleet Elements
  • * Imperium Restored
  • Privateers and Gentlemen series, as Jon Williams
  • * To Glory Arise, originally The Privateer
  • * The Tern Schooner, originally The Yankee
  • * Brig of War, originally The Raider
  • * The Macedonian
  • * Cat Island
  • Dagmar Shaw series
A sci-fi thriller series involving crowdsourcing and alternate reality games.
  • * This Is Not a Game
  • * Deep State
  • * The Fourth Wall
  • * "Diamonds from Tequila", short story published in Rogues
  • Quillifer series
  • * Quillifer
  • * Quillifer The Knight
  • * Lord Quillifer
  • Other novels
  • * Ambassador of Progress
  • * Knight Moves, Philip K. Dick Award nominee
  • * Angel Station
  • * Elegy for Angels and Dogs
  • * Days of Atonement
  • * Aristoi
  • * The Rift, as by Walter J. Williams
  • * The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way
  • * ''Implied Spaces''

    Short fiction collections

  • Facets
  • Frankensteins and Foreign Devils
  • ''The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories''

    Notable short fiction

  • "Dinosaurs", Hugo Award nominee
  • "Witness", Nebula Award nominee
  • "Surfacing", Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominee
  • "Prayers on the Wind", Nebula Award nominee
  • "Wall, Stone, Craft", Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominee
  • "Red Elvis"
  • "Foreign Devils" in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Sidewise Award for Alternate History winner
  • "Lethe", Nebula Award nominee
  • "Daddy's World", Nebula Award winner
  • "Argonautica", Nebula Award nominee
  • "The Last Ride of German Freddie", in Worlds That Weren't, Sidewise Award for Alternate History nominee
  • "The Green Leopard Plague", Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award nominee