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

...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

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

...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

...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

...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

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

...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

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

...(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