Walter Jon Williams: 77 books

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A classic work from Walter Jon Williams, “Daddy’s World” earned the Nebula Award in 2001. Little Jamie lives with his family in an eerily perfect environment, entertained by characters from literature, sung to sleep at night by the Woman in the Moon. But cracks begin to appear in Jamie’s...

Er – Cowboy – ist ein ehemaliger Jet-Pilot, das heißt: Sein Gehirn wurde aufgerüstet, damit er sich die Kontakte zu den Maschinen- und Waffencomputern direkt in die Schläfen stöpseln kann, um zu fliegen und zu feuern, ohne einen Finger rühren zu müssen. Nun fährt er auf dieselbe Weise Trucks...

Steward ist ein Beta, der Klon eines Eisfalken, wie die Angehörigen eines Elitekorps des Sicherheitsdienstes genannt werden, und er ist ein ausgebildeter Einzelkämpfer. Steward forscht nach dem Verbleib seines Alpha, der bei einem Spezialauftrag in dem Asteroiden Vesta auf mysteriöse Weise verschwunden...

ORPHANS OF DEEP SPACE . . . They’re outlaws now. Created to serve a function now grown obsolete, haunted by the holographic ghost of their father, Ubu and Maria have lived their entire lives skating along the edge of extinction. Now they and their ship Runaway are in flight both from the...

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...

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...

“Écrit avec brio, grâce et intelligence, [Aristoï] décrit une société future basée sur l’informatique de pointe et la bioingénierie, deux domaines entièrement contrôlés par une élite, celle des Aristoï. Ce monde...

“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...

The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the New York Times bestselling Star Wars The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemy—from without and within. In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan...

  An alternative-history classic nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards! Young Mary Godwin has run away with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, but a chance encounter places them in the path of Lord Byron, the Hero of Waterloo.  Byron wants Mary, and...

After years of civil war, the genius of Edgar Allan Poe is nearing the breaking point.  Poe has devoted himself to the Confederacy, but his dreams of honor and glory are drowned in blood and slaughter far more vast than the terrors of his imagination.  Anguished, tortured by memories of...

Earth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth’s Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, panzerjocks, dirtgirls, and hustlers scramble for their ticket out of the gravity well....

Unable to find a meaningful posting due to the hostility of his superiors, Captain Lord Gareth Martinez has accepted a meaningless post as Inspector General of Chee, a newly-settled world. Intending nothing more than a pleasant vacation with his family, he first stumbles across a murderous conspiracy,...