Walter Jon Williams

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  • Bibliography:
    63 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1984
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Dagmar Shaw

1 - This Is Not a Game (Apr-2009)
2 - Deep State (Feb-2011)
3 - The Fourth Wall (Feb-2012)
4 - Diamonds From Tequila (Oct-2017)

Drake Maijstral

1 - The Crown Jewels (Oct-1987)
2 - House of Shards (Nov-1988)

Dread Empire's Fall

1 - The Praxis (Sep-2003)
2 - The Sundering (Mar-2004)
3 - Conventions of War (Oct-2005)
4 - Investments (Apr-2012)

Hardwired

Hardwired (Jun-1986)
Voice of the Whirlwind (May-1987)

Praxis

1 - The Accidental War (Sep-2018)
2 - Fleet Elements (Dec-2020)
3 - Imperium Restored (Sep-2022)
3.5 - Investments, the Stickpin, and Impersonations (Nov-2022)

Quillifer

1 - Quillifer (Oct-2017)
2 - Quillifer the Knight (Nov-2019)
3 - Lord Quillifer (Feb-2022)

Voice of the Whirlwind

1 - Video Star (Jun-2014)
2 - Wolf Time (Jun-2014)

Multi-Author Series List

The New Jedi Order

14 - Destiny's Way (Oct-2002)

Star Wars

Ylesia (Sep-2002)
Destiny's Way (Oct-2002)

Book List in Order: 63 titles

  • Ambassador of Progress

  • Knight Moves

    EARTH'S BEEN A PARADISE TOO LONG. IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER REVOLUTION. THE FALKNER GENERATOR GAVE HUMANKIND THE STARS--BUT ONLY AT SPEEDS NEAR THAT OF LIGHT. AND THERE'S THE RUB. DORAN FALKNER, CONTENT TO DO NOTHING IN COMPANY WITH THE CENTAURS PRODU...

  • Hardwired

    Hardwired

    Mudboys, dirtgirls, zonedancers, buttonheads. Gravity-well dirt beneath the Orbital platforms which control their world. But the underground and the underworld declare war against the Orbital Heaven: in the air with delta fighters and military shuttl...

  • Voice of the Whirlwind

    Hardwired

    Steward is a clone. A beta.. His memories are fifteen years old, because his alpha never did have a brain-scan update. And in those fifteen. years, the entire world has changed: The Orbital Policorp which held his allegiance has collapsed; dozens of ...

  • Ligdan and the Young Pretender

    in There Will Be War, Vol. VI: Guns of Darkness

    ECHO THROUGH THE LAND... From the gray gunsmoke mists of a far-off alien realm to a violent valley of sinister shadows and frightfully bloody death, from an evil planet haunted by generals of the past and the soldiers who served them to a brutal t...

  • The Crown Jewels

    Drake Maijstral - 1

    Drake Maijstral, a dispossessed aristocrat and master thief, is commissioned to steal the invaluable jeweled box that has become the focus of the power struggle between the Khosali alien conquerors and the successfully rebellious Humans...

  • House of Shards

    Drake Maijstral - 2

    DRAKE MAIJSTRAL the most daring Allowed Burglar in the Galaxy, is now setting his sights on the Eltdown Shard, a spectacular necklace embodying the flame of a dying star. GEOFF FU GEORGE Maijstral's major rival in the ratings war among Allowed B...

  • Angel Station

    Orphans born in the depths of space, they were engineered to range the galaxy in search of fortune. Misfits and outlaws, they defied the huge interstellar cartels that ruled space, always one jump ahead of the authorities. Ubu Roy was the strong y...

  • Facets

    STATE OF THE ART In the high-tech field, state of the art defines the cutting edge. In science fiction, Walter Jon Williams is the state of the art. Praised for his entertaining, thoughtful novels, including HARDWIRED, VOICE OF THE WHIRLWIND, a...



  • Elegy for Angels and Dogs

  • Days of Atonement

    The town of Atocha, New Mexico, is having trouble coping with technology. It is a place where the old values of family loyalty still hold sway, and where the Chief of Police can solve any crime because he knows everyone's secrets. But Atocha is about...

  • Aristoi

    Gabriel is an Aristos, one of the elite of human society, a lord of technology. On the planet he built, in the Realized World, he is like a god. In the Oneirochronon, Gabriel is only one of many Aristoi, and not the greatest. There in the electron...

  • Rock of Ages

    After years of struggle, Drake Maijstral has been rated Number One Burglar by the Imperial Sporting Commission. Surely by now he deserves a vacation— and he fully intends to take one, on Earth. But valuable items keep disappearing, and it&#x...

  • Metropolitan

    A burning woman stalks the streets. Ten stories tall, her naked body a holocaust of fire. That horrific vision is all Aiah thinks of as she sleepwalks through her dead-end job meting out plasm -- a mysterious and powerful substance created by geoman...

  • Ten Points for Style

    A trilogy which includes: The Crown Jewels, House of Shards and Rock of Ages. The Crown Jewels: Peleng is a planet ripe for the plucking, and Drake Maijstral is an Allowed Burglar rated in the Top Ten by the Imperial Sporting Commission. But what s...

  • City on Fire

    Plasm: the shimmering substance that powers a world civilization Atah worked for the Plasm Authority, metering the shimmering substance that powered the world cite, until she fell in love with Constantine, the rebel Metropolitan lighting a war to ...

  • Frankensteins & Foreign Devils

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    This trade paperback reprint of a the limited-edition Boskone 35 Book contains 10 stories, including “Solip:System,” “Wall, Stone, Craft,” and two previously unpublished stories, “The Bad Twin,” and “The Bag Lady” (a “Wild Cards” ...

  • Frankenstein and Other Foreign Devils

  • The Rift

    It starts with the dogs. They won't stop barking... . And then the earth shrugs--8.9 on the Richter scale in the world's biggest earthquake since 1755. It hits New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi. Seismologists had predicted the...



  • Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories

    A mermaid delves into the dark underpinnings of her Utopian society; a dying boy finds himself trapped in a virtual world beyond his wildest imagining; Friedrich Nietzsche meets Wyatt Earp on the dusty streets of Tombstone, Arizona; a gorilla strives...

  • Implied Spaces

    Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence....

  • The Last Ride of German Freddie

    Four award-winning authors.

    Four amazing alternate histories.

    In this collection of novellas, four masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four excursions into what might have been.

    Bestselling auth...

  • Ylesia

    Star Wars

    No Star Wars fan will want to miss this exciting eBook exclusive adventure from Nebula Award-winner Walter Jon Williams, author of the Star Wars The New Jedi Order hardcover novel, Destiny’s Way.  That’s Jedi Knight ...

  • Destiny's Way

    Star Wars
    The New Jedi Order - 14

    The time of reckoning is close at hand as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemy--from without and within. In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the galaxy on th...

  • The Praxis

    Dread Empire's Fall - 1

    All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The dread empire is in its rapidly fad...

  • The Sundering

    Dread Empire's Fall - 2

    The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries, as an even greater terror arises. The Naxids--a powerful insectoid species thems...

  • Conventions of War

    Dread Empire's Fall - 3

    The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- at the mercy of the merciless insectoid Naxid, who now hunger for domination. But the far-flung human descendants of Terra have finally tasted li...

  • This Is Not a Game

    Dagmar Shaw - 1

    Once upon a time, there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things, all of them were very good at games... Dagmar is a game designer trapped in Jakarta in the middle of a revolution. The city is tearing itself apart around h...

  • Deep State

    Dagmar Shaw - 2

    By day Dagmar Shaw orchestrates vast games with millions of players spanning continents. By night, she tries to forget the sound of a city collapsing in flames around her. She tries to forget the faces of her friends as they died in front of her. She...



  • Prayers on the Wind

    All humanity is at peace. The Diamond Library contains all wisdom, and has incarnated itself as the Treasured King. But now the peace is threatened by the alien Sang, a species bent on conquest, and humanity’s response is fatally divided. At the...

  • Solip: System

    They call it Black Mind. Using this covert technology, Reno has written his own consciousness over that of Albrecht Roon, one of Earth’s greatest enemies. A saboteur surrounded by enemies, he must act quickly, and without giving himself away, in ...

  • The Fourth Wall

    Dagmar Shaw - 3

    Dagmar Shaw got out of the game... and into the movies. Sean is a washed-up child actor reduced to the lowest dregs of reality television to keep himself afloat. His life was a downward spiral of alcoholism, regret, and failure... until he met Dag...

  • Investments

    Dread Empire's Fall - 4

    Walter Jon Williams’ Dread Empire’s Fall series has thrilled readers the world over. Now prepare yourself for a new installment . . . Unable to find a meaningful posting due to the hostility of his superiors, Captain Lord Gareth Martinez has acc...

  • Daddy's World

    A classic work from Walter Jon Williams, “Daddy’s World” earned the Nebula Award in 2001.Little Jamie lives with his family in an eerily perfect environment, entertained by characters from literature, sung to sleep at night by the Woman in the...

  • To Glory Arise

    Originally published as "The Privateer," this is Walter Jon Williams’ first published work, one of the historical novels with which he began his career. The American Revolution is throwing up a new breed of hero, Yankee privateers who dare the mig...

  • Brig of War

    Favian Markham is a rising young American officer in during the War of 1812. As commander of the small, slow brig Experiment, he must break the British blockade and take his outgunned vessel on a daring raid into the Narrow Seas of England. On his ...

  • The Tern Schooner

    Devastated by the loss of his family, Gideon Markham has retreated to his ship and the life of the sea. Heir to a privateering tradition, he brings his schooner into the Gulf of Mexico to wage unremitting war on the British who threaten America’s ...

  • The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid

    Nebula Award-winning author Walter Jon Williams serves up a glorious novelette-sized mashup of intrigue, cutting-edge biotech, Aymara Indian spies, a Chinese cruise ship, ninjas, Andean folk music, and a tetrahedal menace from beneath the sea. But t...

  • Dinosaurs

    This Hugo Award-nominated story takes place in the distant future, when a highly-evolved humanity finds itself at war with the alien Shars. The product of eight million years of evolution, Ambassador Drill is sent to make peace... but does he retain...



  • No Spot of Ground

    After years of civil war, the genius of Edgar Allan Poe is nearing the breaking point. Poe has devoted himself to the Confederacy, but his dreams of honor and glory are drowned in blood and slaughter far more vast than the terrors of his imagination...

  • Surfacing

    Nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards, “Surfacing” is the story of Anthony, an emotionally scarred researcher who finds it easier to talk to whales and to aliens than to members of his own species. Until a stranger named Philana enters his life, ...

  • Video Star

    Voice of the Whirlwind - 1

    Ric has survived a rival’s attempt to poison him, but the hospital AIs pegged him as a suspect character with no job history and a suspicious amount of cash on his person, and they kept the treatments coming until he was broke. Now he needs a new ...

  • Wolf Time

    Voice of the Whirlwind - 2

    Set in the blazing future of Voice of the Whirlwind, “Wolf Time” continues the story of the mercenary Reese, who finds herself in the employ of a shadowy corporation intent on killing its own rogue employees. Not only is Reese assigned the impos...

  • Hardwired, Episode One

    Episode One of the classic novel! Earth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth’s Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, pa...

  • Wall, Stone, Craft

    An alternative-history classic nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards!Young Mary Godwin has run away with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, but a chance encounter places them in the path of Lord Byron, the Hero of Waterloo. By...

  • Hardwired, Episode Two

    Part II of the classic novel.A blacklisted, hunted Sarah hides in the flooded city, and Cowboy confronts the privateers in a final battle. Michael has a mission that will bring the two of them together, but can they evade the invisible enemies that ...

  • Hardwired, Episode Three

    In Episode Three, Cowboy and Sarah have learned the name of their enemy, and now must make a dangerous journey across a fractured, balkanized America to reach a place of temporary safety.Episode Three also contains an essay by Walter Jon Williams on ...

  • Prompt. Professional. Pop!

    The Wild Cards universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. In Walter Jon Williams's "Prompt. Professional. Pop!" shows that to make it in Hollywood, it's not enough to be beautiful and talented, you've also got to take advantage of every o...

  • Hardwired, Episode Four

    Now that they know their enemy’s identity, Cowboy and Sarah begin their counterattack against Tempel. Their own weakness forces them into an alliance with Tempel’s former CEO, the psychotic sexual predator Roon. It’s a situation ripe for viol...



  • Hardwired, Episode Five

  • Hardwired, Episode Six

    Cowboy, Sarah, and the rebel forces are bunkered in the Mojave desert, readying the strike that will either win the war or bring their own cause down in flames. But neither realizes that their cause has already been betrayed . . ....

  • Impersonations

    Nebula Award-winning author Walter Jon Williams returns to the sweeping space opera adventure of his Praxis universe with Impersonations, an exciting new novel featuring the hero of Dread Empire's Fall! Having offended her superiors by winning...

  • The Boolean Gate

    Mark Twain versus the Singularity!Mark Twain may be the most celebrated man in the world, but his alter ego Sam Clemens is tottering through life, disillusioned by the massacres and madness of the human race and stalked by guilt over the deaths of hi...

  • Diamonds From Tequila

    Dagmar Shaw - 4

    “Walter Jon Williams is a visionary of tremendous power and originality . . . He kills every damn time.”--Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorSean Makin was a washed-up child actor, until Dagmar Shaw made him a star. Now he's starring in a...

  • Quillifer

    Quillifer - 1

    From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams comes an adventurous epic fantasy about a man who is forced to leave his comfortable life and find his fortune among goddesses, pirates, war, and dragons. Quillifer is yo...

  • The Accidental War

    Praxis - 1

    Blending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the first volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of his popular and critically acclaimed Dread Empire’s Fall series -- ...

  • Quillifer the Knight

    Quillifer - 2

    Quillifer -- now a member of the nobility -- finds himself further immersed in court politics as the outcast princess Floria is suddenly in a position of power with a rebellion stoked by a certain brilliant tactician, in this thrilling sequel to Quil...

  • Fleet Elements

    Praxis - 2

    Following The Accidental War, the second book of a brand-new series set in the Praxis -- an epic mix of space opera and military science fiction, from a grand master of science fiction, Walter Jon Williams. The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Sh...

  • The Best of Walter Jon Williams

    With the publication of his debut novel, The Privateer, in 1981, Walter Jon Williams began one of the most varied and prolific careers in contemporary popular fiction. His work encompasses cyberpunk (Hardwired), military SF (The Dread Empire's Fall s...

  • Lord Quillifer

    Quillifer - 3

    “For all of you who need some great fantasy to read while you're waiting for The Winds of Winter...try Quillifer, by Walter Jon Williams. WJW is always fun, but this might be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting a...

  • Cat Island

    In a frigate stolen from his own navy, Captain Favian Markham races to New Orleans with the dispatches he’s captured from a British warship—dispatches making it clear that the city will soon be the target of a British fleet and an invadin...

  • Imperium Restored

    Praxis - 3

    Blending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the third and final volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of his popular and critically acclaimed Dread Empire’s Fall ...

  • Investments, the Stickpin, and Impersonations

    Praxis - 3.5

    After bringing listeners The Dread Empires Fall Trilogy (The Praxis, The Sundering, and Conventions of War), Skyboat Media and Blackstone Publishing come together again to present The Praxis Triad, an original audiobook compilation of three novellas ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Walter Jon Williams has published 63 books.

Walter Jon Williams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Investments, the Stickpin, and Impersonations, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Walter Jon Williams, Ambassador of Progress, was published in April 1984.

Yes. Walter Jon Williams has 7 series.
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