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Contents:
Surfacing (1988)
Video Star (1986)
No Spot of Ground (1989)
Flatline (1988)
Side Effects (1985)
Witness (1986)
Wolf Time (1987)
The Bob Dylan Solution (1989)
Dinosaurs (1987)
Surfacing (1988)
Video Star (1986)
No Spot of Ground (1989)
Flatline (1988)
Side Effects (1985)
Witness (1986)
Wolf Time (1987)
The Bob Dylan Solution (1989)
Dinosaurs (1987)
321 pages
Published
1992
by Grafton
(first published 1990)
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Like a lot of science fiction writers, Williams does his best work at shorter lengths.
Part of this is a consequence of the genre: SF works best at short to medium lengths, despite the marketing constraints for multivolume series, because the essentially SF qualities of a narrative (worldbuilding, inventive premise, etc) tend to hold together better over shorter lengths. Part of this is because of the filtering process that old-school SF exerted on its writers: the route to publishing tended to...more
Part of this is a consequence of the genre: SF works best at short to medium lengths, despite the marketing constraints for multivolume series, because the essentially SF qualities of a narrative (worldbuilding, inventive premise, etc) tend to hold together better over shorter lengths. Part of this is because of the filtering process that old-school SF exerted on its writers: the route to publishing tended to...more
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Walter Jon Williams has published twenty novels and short fiction collections. Most are science fiction or fantasy -Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind, Aristoi, Metropolitan, City on Fire to name just a few - a few are historical adventures, and the most recent, The Rift, is a disaster novel in which "I just basically pound a part of the planet down to bedrock." And that's just the opening chapters...more
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