Walter Jon Williams
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City on Fire (novel)City on Fire is a science fiction/fantasy novel by Walter Jon Williams, first published in 1997 and nominated for the Nebula Award (for Best Novel ) in 1997 and the Hugo Award (for Best Novel ) in 1998. It is the sequel to 1995's... In this article: Walter Jon Williams, City on Fire, HarperCollins, Nebula Award, Hugo Award, and FAQ List |
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Wikipedia | October 09, 2009
Walter Jon Williams
Walter Jon Williams (born 15 October 1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired '' (also an homage to Roger Zelazny's novel ''Damnation...
In this article: University of New Mexico, Voice of the Whirlwind, Hardwired, Damnation Alley, Roger Zelazny, Valencia County, Duluth, Minnesota, Albuquerque, and New Mexico
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The Seattle Times | July 17, 2009
New science fiction: Gamers at risk, trouble in the Congo and an actor's adventure
...2009 at 12:00 AM New science fiction: Gamers at risk, trouble in the Congo and an actor's adventure New in science fiction: Walter Jon Williams' gripping gaming adventure, Albert Sanchez Pinol's tale of trouble in the Congo and A.J....
In this article: Congo, A.J. Hartley, Rider Haggard, and Seattle
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Wikipedia | June 12, 2009
The Green Leopard Plague
The Green Leopard Plague is a 2004 novella by Walter Jon Williams that won the Nebula Award, and was nominated for the Hugo Award. It is based on the idea of a genetically engineered virus that allows people to photosynthesize food,...
In this article: The Green Leopard Plague, Nebula Award, and Hugo Award
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Library Journal News | April 02, 2009
Book Review Spotlight: Walter Jon Williams This Is Not a Game.
...and virtual worlds, threatening real fortunes and real lives. Along with William Gibson (Neuromancer) and Bruce Sterling (Schismatrix), Williams (Voice of the Whirlwind) helped create the cyberpunk fiction movement of the late 20th century.
In this article: Voice of the Whirlwind, Schismatrix, Neuromancer, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling
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SCI FI Wire | March 19, 2009
Review: Walter Jon Williams warns that This Is Not a Game
...videocameras in their showerstalls. Who might lurk behind such industrial/literary espionage? Walter Jon Williams, that's who. Oh, not that Williams really needs to steal ideas from these fellows. He's much too talented and...
In this article: Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, Roger Zelazny, Bruce Sterling, and Tinag
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sfsite.com | March 16, 2009
Best of 2008: complied by Greg L. Johnson
...age, an often hilarious satire that revolves around the observations of its narrator and his hidden past. Walter Jon Williams takes every trick in the modern SF writer's bag, and mixes them into a grand stew that, in the midst...
In this article: SF, Gone-Away World, Paul Melko, and Vernor Vinge
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Wikipedia | January 11, 2009
Shad (Wild Cards)
Shad is a fictional vigilante from the Wild Cards series of books, and was created by Walter Jon Williams. Better known as Black Shadow he first appeared in the short story "Strings" in the first Wild Cards anthology, and has played a...
In this article: Shad, Puppetman, Joker, Photon, Jumpers, and The Sleeper
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www.washingtonpost.com | July 05, 2008
One world is never enough in these four novels.
...you place a dome on a rectangular base, for example, you have to fill in the corners; the filled-in area is a squinch.) In Walter Jon Williams's good-tempered novel about the building and destruction and joyful rebuilding of artificial...
In this article: Jeanette Winterson, Jay Lake, Easter Island, Steampunk, World War I, and John Clute
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Boing Boing | July 01, 2008
Free fiction from Walter Jon Williams
Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 1, 2008 6:26 AM | permalink To celebrate the release of Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams, Night Shade Books has posted a self-contained excerpt from the book to their website and posted the complete text...
In this article: Trademark, The Green Leopard Plague, Creative Commons License, Nebula Award, Boing Boing, S.M. Stirling, Cory Doctorow, and United States
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New York Times | March 23, 2008
After Arthur C. Clarke, Who Are Science Fiction's Visionaries? - New York Times
...(a concept popularized by the author Vernor Vinge, and advanced by writers like Mr. Stross) can, in novels like Walter Jon Williams's "Implied Spaces," be a potentially limitless canvas on which to design machines that can create...
In this article: Paolo Bacigalupi, Charles Stross, Ian McDonald, Arthur C. Clarke, Global warming, Web-based, and Rigor
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Walter Jon Williams (born 15 October 1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction.
Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired (also an homage to Roger Zelazny's novel Damnation Alley) and Voice of the Whirlwind. 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), alternate history (Wall, Stone, Craft), science fantasy (Metropolitan and City on Fire), disaster thriller (The Rift), 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.
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