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Lynda Williams is a science fiction author, blogger and an education professional.

Williams' fiction is centered around a series of ten novels set in the fictional Okal Rel Universe and published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Additional works by Williams and other authors writing in her universe are published under the Okal Rel Legacies imprint.

She was founder and producer of the online journal Reflections on Water, which ran for ten years ending in 2007.

Williams was born in Prince George, British Columbia and educated in Victoria B.C. and Ontario. She has worked as a journalist and in crisis intervention. For 15 years she taught applied computing at the University of Northern B.C. and headed the Center for Teaching and Lea...more


The Toadstools of Rire by Michelle Carraway. Illustrations by Anthony Stark. Reetions of the period of the Okal Rel Saga bemoan the destructive terraforming undertaken by Alpha Colonists. The dominant native life form on Rire is described in the saga as "red mushrooms". In this piece, Michelle Carraway tells the story of what some Reetions believe was lost.


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Average rating: 4.18 · 119 ratings · 25 reviews · 24 distinct works · Similar authors
The Courtesan Prince (Okal ...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005
Pretenders (Okal Rel Saga, #3)
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008
Righteous Anger (Okal Rel S...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2006
Far Arena (Okal Rel Saga, #5)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009
Throne Price (Okal Rel Saga...
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4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003
Healer's Sword (Okal Rel Sa...
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Avim's Oath (Okal Rel Saga,...
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010
Gathering Storm (Okal Rel, #8)
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012
Kath: A Novella of the Okal...
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006
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Flight Cycle #1: Hiding Low (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
1 chapters   —   updated Apr 21, 2010 11:04pm
Description: Amel ends his short career as a courtier when he steals his baby half-brother, Erien, from their sadistic mother, Ev'rel. Once he has left the baby in safe hands, he faces the problem of how to hide from Ev'rel. He dares not rely on friends because Ev'rel is the second most powerful Sevolite in the empire and she knows who his friends are. He must stay away, to protect them. So he takes flight. The empire is vast. There ought to be a way to hide in it. But Amel is not just anyone. Born to rule the empire, lost in infancy, raised as a commoner and rediscovered at the age of sixteen working as a courtesan, his story has made him famous. Worst of all, for a fugitive, is Amel's other-worldly beauty that gets him noticed even by people who have never seen his pictures —and his warm heart that cannot help but notice others. (Set in the Envoy Period, between Part 3: Pretenders and Part 4: Throne Price of the Okal Rel Saga published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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