Jon Walter: 83 books

Book cover of Ambassador of Progress
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

“Well-developed characters, an intriguing plot and a clear-eyed view of the double-edged sword called change make [AMBASSADOR OF PROGRESS] an engrossing book...” LIBRARY JOURNAL “Williams has an above-average knack for fast pacing, gritty realism, and high-tech details.” BOOKLIST...
Book cover of Knight Moves
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Knight Moves is an engrossing and evocative read, a tale of immortality and love and death rendered in a style that reminds me more than a little of the early Roger Zelazny. Williams’ people are intriguing and sympathetic, and his portrait of an Earth left transformed and empty by a humanity gone...
Book cover of Aristoi
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Written with care, intelligence, and grace, [Aristoi] depicts a future society based on highly developed computers and biological engineering, the key skills of which are controlled by an elite known as the Aristoi. This world is depicted meticulously and vividly, and so is the near war of all against...
Book cover of The Idea of the Public Sphere
by Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, James Bohman
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010

The notion of 'the public sphere' has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity. The Idea...
Book cover of Functionalism Revisited

Functionalism Revisited

Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral Sciences

by Jon Lang, Walter Moleski
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

A range of current approaches to architecture are neglected in our contemporary writings on design philosophies. This book argues that the model of 'function' and the concept of a 'functional building' that we have inherited from the twentieth-century Modernists is limited in scope and detracts from...
Book cover of Hardwired, Episode Four
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

Now that they know their enemy’s identity, Cowboy and Sarah begin their counterattack against Tempel.  Their own weakness forces them into an alliance with Tempel’s former CEO, the psychotic sexual predator Roon.  It’s a situation ripe for violence, treachery, and betrayal, especially...
Book cover of Hardwired, Episode Six
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014

Cowboy, Sarah, and the rebel forces are bunkered in the Mojave desert, readying the strike that will either win the war or bring their own cause down in flames.  But neither realizes that their cause has already been betrayed . . . 
Book cover of Hardwired, Episode Five
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014

Cowboy readies his strike on Tempel, but he's being haunted by an electronic ghost named Reno.  And Tempel wants Sarah to betray him, and in return offers everything she's always wanted.  
Book cover of Wolf Time (Voice of the Whirlwind)
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

Set in the blazing future of Voice of the Whirlwind, "Wolf Time" continues the story of the mercenary Reese, who finds herself in the employ of a shadowy corporation intent on killing its own rogue employees.  Not only is Reese assigned the impossible task of assaulting a fortified...
Book cover of Dinosaurs
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014

This Hugo Award-nominated novelette takes place in the distant future, when a highly-evolved humanity finds itself at war with the alien Shars.  The product of eight million years of evolution, Ambassador Drill is sent to make peace... but does he retain enough of his humanity to recognize that of his enemies?  
Book cover of Surfacing (Short Novel)
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

Nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards, “Surfacing” is the story of Anthony, an emotionally scarred researcher who finds it easier to talk to whales and to aliens than to members of his own species.  Until a stranger named Philana enters his life, with a terrifying problem of her own that dares him to break through the surface of his world.  
Book cover of Hardwired, Episode Two
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

Part II of the classic novel. Sarah, blacklisted and hunted, hides from pursuers in the flooded city, while Cowboy confronts the privateers on their own turf.  Michael has a mission that can bring them together, but can they evade the unknown enemies who dog their every step?
Book cover of The Last Ride of German Freddie
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014

NIETZSCHE AT THE O.K. CORRAL! The Clantons and the Earps are heading for a showdown, and into the town of Tombstone rides German Freddie, a gunslinger with a deadly reputation and a penchant for philosophical speculation.  Freddie’s committed to a life that is mad, dangerous, and free,...
Book cover of House of Shards (Maijstral 2)
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

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