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Walter Jon Williams

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Born

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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I visit my physical therapist this afternoon. We were born in the same town (Duluth), and went to the same junior high school (Ordean). He was a year behind me and we didn’t know each other. My family left town, and he went on to become a ski jumping champion and twice a member of the U.S. Olympic ski jumping team. So far, so awesome.

We were talking about those faraway times, and he said, “There’s

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	Destiny's Way (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #14) 3.86 avg rating — 7,471 ratings — published 2002 — 26 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 — 5,385 ratings — published 1986 — 2 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 — 4,219 ratings — published 2002 — 32 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 — 2,837 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
	This is Not a Game (Dagmar Shaw, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 2,672 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
	Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall, #3) 3.99 avg rating — 2,483 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
	Ylesia (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #14.5) 3.59 avg rating — 2,757 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 — 2,536 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) 3.91 avg rating — 1,881 ratings — published 1987 — 2 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 — 1,344 ratings — published 1992	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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You probably know coauthors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck as James S.A. Corey—their shared pen name. And you probably know them from their wildly...

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Walter Jon Williams wrote a new blog post Double Dog Dare My novella “Elegy for Angels and Dogs” is reviewed on Black Gate by Steven H. Silver. Also reviewed is my story’s precursor, Roger Zelazny’s “the Grav Read more of this blog post »
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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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“If you wish to find the unclouded truth, he told himself, do not concern yourself with right or wrong. Conflicts with right and wrong are a sickness of the mind. The”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind: Author's Preferred Edition

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