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Walter Jon Williams

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in Duluth, Minnesota, The United States

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http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

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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. Walter holds a fourth-degree black belt in Kenpo Karate, and also enjoys sailing and scuba diving. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Kathy Hedges. ...more

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Cat Island, the fifth and final of my Privateers & Gentlemen adventures, has been re-released by Flagship Editions and is available on Amazon.

The book is built around the long campaign to seize New Orleans for the British, and allows me to make use of the astounding number of extraordinary characters who were involved in that conflict: the pirate Jean Laffite, the ferocious Andrew Jackson, the

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	Destiny's Way (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #14) 3.87 avg rating — 7,615 ratings — published 2002 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hardwired (Hardwired, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 5,539 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 4,343 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sundering (Dread Empire's Fall, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 2,905 ratings — published 2003 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall, #3) 3.99 avg rating — 2,557 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is Not a Game (Dagmar Shaw, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 2,686 ratings — published 2009 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ylesia (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #14.5) 3.59 avg rating — 2,813 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rift 3.66 avg rating — 2,556 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voice of the Whirlwind (Hardwired, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 1,922 ratings — published 1987 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aristoi 3.99 avg rating — 1,356 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.”
― Walter Jon Williams

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“if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority.

Luke”
― Walter Jon Williams, Destiny's Way

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“I hate it!" he said. "I don't want to be human anymore."
"Neither do I," she said. "It's not a good place to be.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Aristoi

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The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson

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Inversions by Iain M. Banks

11 votes, 20.8%

Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Yahtzee Croshaw

10 votes, 18.9%

The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams

3 votes, 5.7%

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