World Domination Ltd : 44 books

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...

“Walter Jon Williams is a visionary of tremendous power and originality . . . He kills every damn time.”                                     --Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author When you play one of Dagmar’s online games, you can’t just...

Peter Heck "Williams' longest, most densely realized and successful book to date." Roland Green "This is a novel that works marvelously on a variety of levels-- as an adventure story, a trek through personal entanglements, a study in detailed police techniques and an enlightening...

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....

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...

This novella is the long-awaited sequel to Walter Jon Williams’ classic novel Hardwired. They call it Black Mind. Using this covert technology, Reno has written his own consciousness over that of Albrecht Roon, one of Earth’s greatest enemies. A saboteur surrounded by enemies, he must act...

After years of struggle, Drake Maijstral has been rated Number One Burglar by the Imperial Sporting Commission. Surely by now he deserves a vacation— and he fully intends to take one, on Earth. But valuable items keep disappearing, and it’s clear that Maijstral, the master thief to end all master...

All humanity is at peace. The Diamond Library contains all wisdom, and has incarnated itself as the Treasured King. But now the peace is threatened by the alien Sang, a species bent on conquest, and humanity’s response is fatally divided. At the height of the crisis, the Treasured King...

Overview Favian Markham is a rising young American officer in the War of 1812. As commander of the small, slow brig Experiment, he must break the British blockade and take his outgunned vessel on a daring raid into the Narrow Seas of England. On his desperate journey he faces duels, rivalries, ambitious...

Captain Favian Markham, USN, is a man surrounded by secrets. Secrets that will be revealed when he is court-martialed for losing his ship. Secrets held by his mistress Caroline. The secrets of enemy spies signaling to British ships over the horizon. And the greatest secret of the War of 1812, a secret...

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...

In Episode Three, Cowboy and Sarah have learned the name of their enemy, and now must make a dangerous journey across a fractured, balkanized America to reach a place of safety. Episode Three also contains an essay by Walter Jon Williams on the surprising origins of the term “panzerboy.”  (Belgian butter smugglers, anyone?)

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 . . . 

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.