Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams at the Hugo Awards (2017)

Walter Jon Williams (born October 15, 1953 in Minnesota ) is an American writer specializing in science fiction .

Life

Williams graduated from the University of New Mexico and lives near San José. His first books translated into German were Hardware ( Hardwired ) and The Voice of the Whirlwinds ( The Voice of the Whirlwind ). With these works he was initially classified in the sub-genre cyberpunk , although later he hardly took up cyberpunk topics. His Drake Maijstral series was more of a futuristic cloak-and-sword story, Aristoi played in a feudal society shaped by nanotechnology. Williams also wrote novels in the Star Wars universe. He was nominated several times for the Hugo and the Nebula Award , he won the Nebula for his short stories Daddy's World (2000) and The Green Leopard Plague (2004). In 1997 he received the Sidewise Award for his short story Foreign Devils . His Space Opera Dread Empire's Fall was released in 2002-2005 and became an international bestseller. The German first edition was published in 2010 in three volumes.

bibliography

Privateers and gentlemen

(as Jon Williams)

• The Privateer , 1981
• The Yankee , 1981
• The Raider , 1981
• The Macedonian , 1984
• Cat Island , 1984

Hardwired

• Hardware , 1988, ISBN 3-453-02787-6 , Hardwired , 1986
• The Voice of the Whirlwind , 1989, ISBN 3-453-03444-9 , Voice of the Whirlwind , 1986

Drake Magistral

• The Crown Jewels , 1994, ISBN 3-453-07778-4 , The Crown Jewels , 1987
• The House of Shards , 1994, ISBN 3-453-07779-2 , House of Shards , 1988
• Rock of Ages , 1995
• Ten Points For Style , 1995 (anthology)

Metropolitan

• Plasma City , 2002, ISBN 3-453-19668-6 , Metropolitan , 1995
• City on Fire , 1996

Dread Empire's Fall

• The Fall of the Empire , 2010, ISBN 3-453-52645-7 , The Praxis , 2002
• Star twilight , 2010, ISBN 3-453-52657-0 , The Sundering , 2003
• The Last Galaxy , 2010, ISBN 3-453-52656-2 , Conventions of War , 2004

Star Wars: Legacy of the Jedi

• Ways of Fate (Volume 14), 2006, ISBN 3-442-24398-X , Destiny's Way , 2002

Dagmar Shaw

• Off , 2009, ISBN 3-832-18103-2 , This Is Not a Game , 2008
• Deep State , 2010

Quillifer

• Quillifer , 2017
• Quillifer the Knight , announced for November 2019

Single novels

• Ambassador of Progress , 1984
• Knight Moves , 1985
• Angel Station , 1992, ISBN 3-453-05392-3 , Angel Station , 1989
• Solip: System , 1989
• An Elegy for Angels and Dogs , 1993, ISBN 3-453-06609-X , Elegy for Angels and Dogs , 1990
• Days of Atonement , 1996, ISBN 3-453-09434-4 , Days of Atonement , 1991
• Aristoi , 1996, ISBN 3-453-08590-6 , Aristoi , 1992
• Wall, Stone, Craft , 1993
• The Rift , 1999
• Implied Spaces , 2008

Story collections

• Frankenstein and Other Foreign Devils , 1980
• Facets , 1990

literature

• Wolfgang Neuhaus : An instrument of longing. Walter Jon Williams - the author of the "Crisis" , in: The Science Fiction Year 2010 , edited by Sascha Mamczak and Wolfgang Jeschke , Heyne, Munich 2010, pp. 192–202. ISBN 978-3-453-52681-5
• Karsten Kruschel : Der Fall des Imperiums / Sternendämmerung , in: The Science Fiction Year 2011 , edited by Sascha Mamczak , Wolfgang Jeschke and Sebastian Pirling, Heyne, Munich 2011, pp. 1110–1113. ISBN 978-3-453-53379-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Jon Williams in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter Jon Williams in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Walter Jon Williams at Open Library
• Walter Jon Williams in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Official website of the author

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Jon Williams: The Fall of the Empire. Wilhelm Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-52645-7 , p. 2.