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American fiction writer (born 1953)
Walter Jon Williams (born October 28, 1953)
[1] is an American writer, primarily of
science fiction . Previously he wrote nautical adventure fiction under the name Jon Williams , in particular, Privateers and Gentlemen (1981–1984), a series of historical novels set during the
Age of Sail .
[2]
Career
Writing as Jon Williams, he designed the wargame Tradition of Victory and role-playing game Promotions and Prizes , which were republished by
Fantasy Games Unlimited as
Heart of Oak (1982) and
Privateers and Gentlemen (1983).
[3] : 74 A role-playing game sourcebook for
Cyberpunk called
Hardwired (1989) was licensed by
R. Talsorian Games , based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Williams.
[3] : 209
Williams was born in
Duluth, Minnesota and graduated from 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 .
In 2006, Williams founded the Taos Toolbox, a two-week writer's workshop for fantasy and science fiction writers.
In 2017, Williams was the Guest of Honor at the
75th World Science Fiction Convention , held in Helsinki.
Publications
Novels
Drake Maijstral series An SF
comedy of manners series about the aristocratic burglar
Drake Maijstral . Collected as an omnibus, Ten Points for Style (1995)
The Crown Jewels (1987)
House of Shards (1988)
Rock of Ages (1995)
Privateers and Gentlemen series , as Jon Williams
[2]
To Glory Arise , originally The Privateer (1981)
The Tern Schooner , originally The Yankee (1981)
Brig of War , originally The Raider (1981)
The Macedonian (1981)
Cat Island (1981)
Dagmar Shaw series A sci-fi thriller series involving
crowdsourcing and
alternate reality games .
This Is Not a Game (2009)
Deep State (2011)
The Fourth Wall (2012)
"Diamonds from Tequila" (2014), short story published in
Rogues
Quillifer series
Quillifer (2017)
Quillifer The Knight (2019)
Lord Quillifer (2022)
[4]
Short fiction collections
Facets (1990)
Frankensteins and Foreign Devils (1998)
The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (Trade Hardcover: Night Shade Books, 2010,
ISBN
978-1-59780-177-5 )
Notable short fiction
"
Dinosaurs " (1987),
Hugo Award nominee
"Witness" (1987),
Nebula Award nominee
"Surfacing" (1988), Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominee
"Prayers on the Wind" (1991), Nebula Award nominee
"Wall, Stone, Craft" (1993), Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominee
"Red Elvis" (1994) (collected in
Mike Resnick 's alternate history anthology
Alternate Outlaws )
"Foreign Devils" in
War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (1996),
Sidewise Award for Alternate History winner
"Lethe" (1999), Nebula Award nominee
"Daddy's World" (2000), Nebula Award winner
"Argonautica" (2001), Nebula Award nominee
"The Last Ride of German Freddie", in Worlds That Weren't (2002),
Sidewise Award for Alternate History nominee
"
The Green Leopard Plague " (2004), Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award nominee
References
^ Williams, Walter Jon (28 October 2007).
"Geezer Test" . Walter Jon Williams. Retrieved 20 May 2021 . Since it's now my birthday, and the whole day is entirely about me—making it not unlike other days, actually—it's only appropriate that I devise a test to discover if you guys are as wise as I am.
^
a
b
"The Nautical Fiction List" (T–Z). An Annotated Bibliography of Novels based in part on the work of John Kohnen (part 9).
California Maritime Academy (csum.edu). Retrieved 2014-08-02.
^
a
b Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons . Mongoose Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-907702-58-7 .
^ Williams, Walter Jon (15 February 2022). Lord Quillifer .
ISBN
978-1481490030 .
External links
International National Academics Artists Other