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Author Biography and Bibliography
Walter Jon Williams is a New York Times best-selling author, traveler, kenpo fiend, and scuba maven. He lives with his wife, Kathleen Hedges, on an old Spanish land grant in the high desert of New Mexico, and is the author of nineteen novels and two collections of shorter works. After an early career as an historical novelist, he switched to science fiction. His first novel to attract serious public attention was Hardwired (1986), described by Roger Zelazny as "a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe-light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars." In 2001 he won a Nebula Award for his novelette "Daddy's World." Walter's subject matter has an unusually wide range and includes the glittering surfaces of Hardwired, the opulent tapestries of Aristoi, the bleak, science-tinged roman policier Days of Atonement, and the pensive young Mary Shelley of the novella "Wall, Stone, Craft," which was nominated for a Hugo, Nebula, and a World Fantasy Award. His new novel, The Sundering, takes place in the far future of Dread Empire's Fall, the series begun with The Praxis, of which Russell Letson wrote: "What sets The Praxis apart from its more conventional kin in the New Space Opera or military SF clans, though, is the adroitness with which it integrates battles and disasters and species-wide politicking with the intimate, the personal, and the social. A writer who can make a formal reception, a dinner party, or a staff meeting as gripping as a fleet action is a rarity and a treasure, and that is just what we have in Williams."
Walter's web page may be found at http://www.walterjonwilliams.net.
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