Novelist · Since 1981
Walter Jon
Williams
Cyberpunk highways, imperial fleets, a city the size of a world, and frigates under full canvas. Four decades of novels that refuse to sit still in one genre.
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Newly in print
Privateers & Gentlemen returns
Flagship Editions is reissuing the entire age-of-sail sequence, a fortnight apart: To Glory Arise, The Tern Schooner, Brig of War, The Macedonian and Cat Island. Decades out of print, and back at last.
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Four ways in
Science Fiction · 1986
The novel that put a hovertank on the cyberpunk highway.
Hardwired
Science Fiction · 1986
Dread Empire's Fall · 2002
The last Shaa is dying, and ten thousand years of order dies with him.
The Praxis
Dread Empire's Fall · 2002
Quillifer · 2017
A butcher's son, a lawyer's training, and an extremely poor sense of restraint.
Quillifer
Quillifer · 2017
Privateers & Gentlemen · 1983
The age-of-sail saga, back in print from Flagship Editions.
To Glory Arise
Privateers & Gentlemen · 1983
Five sequences
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