Walter Jon Williams, Author Tor Books $19.95 (437p) ISBN 978-0-312-85118-7
Williams's ( Angel Station ) flawed futuristic thriller is set at the beginning of the next century, during the ``days of atonement'' observed by the Church of the Apostles, a period of contemplation, each day devoted to one of the seven deadly sins.
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Walter Jon Williams. Harper Voyager, $16.99 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-246702-7
This capable military SF trilogy opener begins slowly, but Williams (Impersonations) delivers the goods in the end. Senior Captain Lord Gareth Martinez and Senior Captain Caroline, Lady Sula, of the Terran Fleet find themselves with little to do now
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Walter Jon Williams. Saga, $27.99 (544p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8997-3
In this sprawling, lively episodic adventure, Williams (Angel Station) returns to his swashbuckling historical fantasy roots while exploring new territory. Eighteen-year-old Quillifer, a butcher’s son and legal apprentice, lives a life of ease and...
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Walter Jon Williams. Tor.com, $17.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8781-3
Thousands of years in the future, Captain the Lady Sula is a war hero who almost single-handedly defeated the alien Naxids when they attempted to seize the empire of the Praxis from the vicious Shaa, who rule the Earth with bloody tyranny. She’s...
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Walter Jon Williams. Orbit, $13.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-13339-5
Williams turns in a sedate and sinister near-future mystery to follow thrillers This Is Not a Game and Deep State. Sean Makin is a former child star who at 29 has resorted to humiliating himself on reality TV. The protagonist of the earlier books,...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author HarperPrism $22 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-105213-2
In Metropolitan, which was nominated for the 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel, Williams created a magnificent world-city, its entire surface urbanized by a multitude of civilizations that draw their very existence from plasm, the mysterious energy...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author Tor Books $21.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-312-85963-3
Literate farce is still a scarcity in science fiction. That's why this third volume in the continuing series (after The Crown Jewels and House of Shards) about Majistral, the Number One-rated allowed burglar in the Human Constellation, is such an...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author HarperPrism $20 (342p) ISBN 978-0-06-105212-5
The world created in Williams's (Aristoi) latest novel is similar enough to our own that the SF aspects blend with noir stylings to create a potent atmosphere of urban dystopia. Williams tells the tale of Aiah, a lower-level government functionary...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author Tor Books $22.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-85172-9
In this complex and rewarding novel, Williams (Days of Atonement) has created a future which features many of the wonders SF has been promising us for years: virtual reality, genetic engineering, faster-than-light travel, artificial intelligence,...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author . Night Shade $24.95 (265p) ISBN 978-1-59780-125-6
In this grandly scaled space opera from bestseller Williams (Hardwired
), swashbuckling computer scientist Aristide explores pretechnological “pocket” universes in search of interesting “implied spaces,” the unintended...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-93187-2
Ubu has four arms, a fantastically faithful memory and is 13 years old. His 11-year-old ``sister'' Maria is more conventionally constructed, yet so psychic she considers herself a witch. (Both mature with the artificial aid of ``mones'' to the time...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-93013-4
Williams's novel Hardwired was a well-written but standard entry in the cyberpunk sweepstakes launched by William Gibson's Neuromancer. This followup, however, is much more interesting and successful. Etienne Steward is the clone (""Steward Beta'')...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author Tor Books $15.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-312-93303-6
After his thoughtful, elegant novel Knight Moves, Williams wrenchingly shifts gears for this heavy-metal adventure. It is set with acknowledgement in Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley, when corporate Orbitals control what's left of a postwar America,...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author Eos $26 (726p) ISBN 978-0-06-105294-1
Catastrophe strikes twice in the same place, or so it seems from the second thriller this year (after Peter Hernon's 8.4: Forecasts, Jan. 4) detailing the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in the Mississippi River Valley. Working on a smaller...
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Walter Jon Williams, Author . Night Shade $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-1-59780-177-5
In this provocative, entertaining collection of nine reprints, Williams (Implied Spaces
) brings together tales of the College of Mystery as well as other explorations of the gray region where psyche and technology meet. Standouts include the Nebula-
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Walter Jon Williams, Author . Orbit $24.99 (369p) ISBN 978-0-316-00315-5
Williams (The Rift
) weaves intriguing questions about games, gamers and their relationships with real life into this well-paced near-future thriller. Game designer Dagmar specializes in creating “alternate reality” games that muddle the
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Walter Jon Williams. Saga, $16.99 trade paper (544p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9001-6
Lively adventure, court politics, and clandestine romance combine in the exquisitely detailed, if occasionally tedious, follow up to 2018’s Quillifer. Knighted at the end of his previous outing, Quillifer continues to build his reputation in the...
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Walter Jon Williams. Harper Voyager, $16.99 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-246704-1
Williams impresses with the second book of his sophisticated Praxis trilogy (after 2018’s The Accidental War), more red meat for fans of high-quality space operas. After a financial crisis rocks the multispecies, interplanetary Praxis Empire, blame...
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Walter Jon Williams. Subterranean, $45 (616p) ISBN 978-1-64524-002-0
Best-known for space operas, Williams (Fleet Elements) showcases his versatility in this impressive collection of 12 stories, whose wide-ranging subjects include a superhero-supervillain battle in the Old West (“The Golden Age”) and a moving account
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Edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass. Bantam, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-35783-5
Martin and Snodgrass continue the long-running Wild Cards series (after Pairing Up) with a fascinating anthology exploring the elusive character of the Sleeper. In 1946, an alien virus forever changed the course of humanity. Many who survived were...
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