Walter Jon Williams

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Walter Jon Williams at Worldcon 75, in 2017. Photo by Henry Söderlund.

Walter Jon Williams (born October 15, 1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Previously he wrote nautical adventure fiction under the name Jon Williams, a series of historical novels set during the age of sail, Privateers and Gentlemen (1981–1984).

Works created by Walter Jon Williams include:

• Dagmar Shaw
  • This Is Not a Game (2009)
  • Deep State (2011)
  • The Fourth Wall (2012)
  • Diamonds from Tequila (2014)

• Hardwired
  • Hardwired (1986)
  • Voice of the Whirlwind (1987)
  • Solip: System (1989)

• Maijstral
  • The Crown Jewels (1987)
  • House of Shards (1988)
  • Rock of Ages (1995)
  • Ten Points For Style (1996)

• Metropolitan
  • Metropolitan (1995)
  • City on Fire (1997)

• Praxis Universe
  • Dread Empire's Fall
    • The Praxis (2002)
    • The Sundering (2003)
    • Investments (2004)
    • Logs (2004) / Conventions of War (2005)
  • Impersonations (2016)
    • The Accidental War (2018)
    • The Stickpin (2018)

• Quillifer
  • Quillifer (2017)
  • The Triumph of Virtue (2017)
  • Quillifer the Knight [forthcoming: Nov 05 2019]

• Star Wars universe
  • Star Wars: The New Jedi Order
    • Destiny's Way (2002)
    • Ylesia (2002)

• Wild Cards Universe
  • Witness (1986)
  • Mr. Koyama's Comet (1987)
  • Unto the Sixth Generation (1987)
  • Mortality (1988)
  • Ace in the Hole (1990), with Stephen Leigh and Victor Milán and Walton Simons and Melinda M. Snodgrass.
  • While Night's Black Agents Their Preys Do Rouse I, II (1991)
  • Dealer's Choice (1992), with Edward Bryant and Stephen Leigh and George R. R. Martin and John J. Miller
  • Feeding Frenzy (1994)
  • Road Kill (2014)

Novels

• Ambassador of Progress (1984)
• Knight Moves (1985)
• Angel Station (1989)
• Days of Atonement (1991)
• Aristoi (1992)
• The Rift (1999) [also as by Walter J. Williams]
• Implied Spaces (2008)

Collections

• Facets (1990)
• Frankensteins and Foreign Devils (1998)
• The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (2010)

Anthologies

• Elegy for Angels and Dogs / The Graveyard Heart (1990) with Roger Zelazny
• Worlds That Weren't (2002) with Mary Gentle and S. M. Stirling and Harry Turtledove