David J. Williams's Blog

man, it’s like some kind of fucking sci-fi novel

Super-excited to be lead writer on today’s release of HOMEWORLD: DESERTS OF KHARAK — the first new Homeworld IP in more than ten years. Huge congratulations to Rob Cunningham, Paul Ruskay and the whole team at Blackbird Interactive; it was an honor to be a part of it, and I couldn’t be more excited for the future of the franchise!

Super-psyched to display the insignia/ patch for Star Wars’ Blade Squadron, the ongoing stories co-authored by myself and Mark Williams. Stay tuned for more details…

A huge thanks to the folks at the International Festival of Books and Games for hosting me in Lodz, Poland last weekend, and in particular to the Star Wars Fan Club of Lodz (Lodzki Fanklub, to be precise), all of whom seriously rock. When I was growing up, Poland was behind the Iron Curtain; I never thought I’d go there ( in much the same way that it seemed to many of us that the Cold War could never end save in some event that reduced the world to cinder and ash and endless dark).

But — also while I was growing up — I was reading voraciously anything 2000 AD or Judge Dredd related.  (I still do, of course.)  So to meet Dredd writer and comic legend Alan Grant in Lodz was the honor of a lifetime. For that matter, the whole trip was. Now SA and I are back in LA with the way-too-many amoral hustlers we live with, aka the cats… back to work! More updates to come soon.

I talked yesterday evening with the intimable Johnny Video over at Smartasses Radio for a lively conversation spanning space weaponization, Judge Dredd, cats, Wonder Woman, Prometheus and Jerry Pournelle, among other sundry topics. Check it out here…

Spent this time this weekend with the good folks over at Fanboy Comics — a fun chat ranging from Facebook’s latest shenanigans to the latest team to tackle Wonderwoman to the inevitable rise of those darn machines… check it out here.

Co-authored with Mark Williams, our new short story “Blade Squadron” is out now in STAR WARS INSIDER. Jedi News reviews it favorablyhere, and Disney has announced that this is the FIRST work to be considered part of the new SW canon.Which is, yanno, pretty cool. So if you want to know what else was going on in the Battle of Endor, get your copy now.

I’m pleased to announce that my fifth novel is out: TRANSFORMERS: RETRIBUTION, written with co-author Mark S. Williams, in which we tell the story of how the Transformers confront an ancient enemy from their distant past (i.e., the 1980s). No spoilers of course, but here’s a hint on who they are….

I’m pleased to announce that my writing partner/brother-in-arms Mark Williams and I have signed a deal with Random House to write two Transformers novels for Hasbro. We couldn’t be more psyched to contribute to this world-class franchise; publication dates TBD, but will update as I have details.

io9 has published my essay on Prometheus. Comments closed here; go chat about it there!