Walter Jon Williams (born October 28, 1953) 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. 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.

  • Other novels
  • Ambassador of Progress (1984)
  • Knight Moves (1985), Philip K. Dick Award nominee
  • Angel Station (1989)
  • Elegy for Angels and Dogs (1990)
  • Days of Atonement (1991)
  • Aristoi (1992)
  • The Rift (1999), as by Walter J. Williams
  • The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way (2002)
  • Implied Spaces (2008)

Short fiction

;Collections

  • Facets (1990)
  • Frankensteins and Foreign Devils (1998)
  • The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (Trade Hardcover: Night Shade Books, 2010, )

;Stories

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|The Tang Dynasty underwater pyramid

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|Sci Fiction (Aug 4, 2004)

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|Novelette

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  • "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

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  • with blog
  • Critical profile and bibliography in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  • Practice for Something Else: Walter Jon Williams, Interview by Jeremy L. C. Jones, Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2011