William F. Wu

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time

2 - Marauder (Jul-1993)
3 - Warrior (Oct-1993)
Predator (Apr-1993)
Dictator (Feb-1994)
Invader (Sep-1994)

Multi-Author Series List

Dr. Bones

2 - The Cosmic Bomber (Dec-1988)

Isaac Asimov's Robot City

3 - Cyborg (Nov-1988)
6 - Perihelion (Jun-1988)

Mutant Chronicles: Apostate of Insanity

1 - In Lunacy (Jun-1994)

Robert Silverberg's Time Tours

1 - The Robin Hood Ambush (Sep-1990)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • On the Shadow of a Phosphor Screen

    in There Will Be War, Vol. II: Men of War
    • / Science Fiction
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    HIGH TECH WAR -- AND HOW TO AVOID IT The answer is simple: you would have peace? Then prepare for war. This wisdom is as old as armies. Yet after a few generations, the peace that was paid for with soldiers' blood comes to seem the normal thing, t...

  • Masterplay

    In a world of the future in which court cases are determined by computer-game combat, friends and Master Gamers Richard Ross and Ken Li become caught up in a deadly game that could mean death for one of the opponents...

  • Perihelion

    Isaac Asimov's Robot City - 6

  • Cyborg

    Isaac Asimov's Robot City - 3

    BEYOND AURORA AWAITS A BRAVE NEW WORLD...OF ROBOTS A man without memory, trapped in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman who claims to know who he is, but who refuses to tell him. Together, they must find an insane cyborg stal...

  • The Cosmic Bomber

    Dr. Bones - 2

    Time is running out. Thomsen 4, a small Earth-like planet, is on a collision course with a speeding comet, and the impact will wipe out the Arrs, a lupoid race of unknown intelligence. But Dr. Bones and his crew discover they aren't the only ones wit...

  • Hong on the Range

    In this science fiction satire of westerns, after the American West was destroyed in a series of biological disasters, rebuilding it is a lot like building it in the first place, but there are crucial differences. For example, new, partly mechanical ...

  • The Robin Hood Ambush

    Robert Silverberg's Time Tours - 1

    In a future where time travel is common and Time Patrolmen insure that time tourists do not tamper with history, Bob, Will, and Alan travel back to the time of King Richard the Lion-Hearted and pose as Robin Hoods...

  • Predator

    Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time

    When the MC Governor breaks itself down into six component robots and launches its parts into the remote past, only an experimental robot named Hunter and a hastily assembled team of human experts have a chance to retrieve them. Original....

  • Marauder

    Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time - 2



  • Warrior

    Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time - 3

    Certain that its destruction is imminent, MC Governor, the largest and most intelligent experimental robot ever built, uses the Third Law of Robotics to break itself down into six smaller robots and scatter them throughout Earth's past. Original....

  • Dictator

    Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time

  • Emperor

    Attempting to recover the fifth component of a renegade robot, Hunter and his team travel through time to ancient China, where they are thwarted by Dr. Wayne Nystrom, creator of the robot, who is determined to retrieve it himself. Original....

  • In Lunacy

    Mutant Chronicles: Apostate of Insanity - 1

    In the distant future, battles erupt across the solar system as humankind wages war against the evil forces that have emerged from the darkness of the void, while the five ruling MegaCorporations battle for supremacy among themselves. Original....

  • Invader

    Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time

    Attempting to capture the last component robot of a renegade inventor, R. Hunter and his companions travel to the time of King Arthur, and land in the middle of a crucial war between the Britons and the Saxons. Original....

  • Book2: Marauder

    An experimental robot named Hunter and his team of human experts must find and disable the MC Governor robot, which is lost in an age of pirates and cutthroats, before it can destroy all humankind. Reprint....

  • Book 3: Warrior

    Certain that its destruction is imminent, MC Governor, the largest and most intelligent experimental robot ever built, uses the Third Law of Robotics to break itself down into six smaller robots and scatter them throughout Earth's past. Reprint....

  • Anglotown

    In this alternate world, a parody of old stories and movies about Chinatown, three recent college graduates of Chinese and Japanese descent celebrate graduation with a dinner in Anglotown. Pals Ken, Andy, and Garth joke and harass each other at dinne...

  • Davi Leiko Till Midnight

    Mac Tom, who creates artificial humans, searches on a chaotic Free Night for the woman he created to be the love of his life. On Free Nights, however, all artificials become independent. Free Nights had been granted to prevent the creation of willing...

  • Grid of Ice

    Randy Fong lacks any experience when it comes to organized football. When the athletic director calls on him to coach the team however, Randy accepts the challenge. Willing to sell his soul to help the team look respectable, Randy Fong finds his wish...



  • Hong's Bluff

    In this light-hearted, futuristic Wild West, Louie Hong, the young, all-human cousin of a cyborg gunfighter known as “the Hong,” just wants to survive -- and earn his cousin’s respect. He lives in a frontier where most people have whatever elec...

  • Island Ancestor

    Daniel Eng Zisuey works at a combined resort and religious shrine. An American, he majored in drama and has a great job. He portrays himself on stage as one of his own ancestors reborn, because his benefactor, Eng Sen, used ancient DNA to clone him. ...

  • Kwan Tingui

    Leung Soey, white-haired at the age of 73, desperately needs the gold that a wealthy client from Singapore, Kwan Douhak, will pay him to translate at a very personal gathering. Kwan Douhak seeks his long-lost half-sister. In the center of this meetin...

  • Nairich

    In 1906 Charlotte Eng started working within Nairich, a Victorian mansion owned by her employer, Mrs. MacGrewar. The widow of a sea captain Mrs. MacGrewar continues to be haunted by her husband’s ghost. Every night, the captain throws himself off t...

  • On the Road

    Meet Tod Kwan, a man whose life of landscape painting no longer fulfills the urge driving each and every one of us. Long ago Tod Kwan made a promise, a promise to one day return to visit a woman of his youthful passionate filled days. Deciding to tak...

  • Sit-in At The Alamo

    Jimmy Mok lives in the Golden Day Sunset Home, in a powered wheelchair. Most of his enjoyment comes from watching old television reruns and movies, but this futuristic facility can be brutal. When the residents rebel and take over, they face hostile ...

  • Wong's Lost and Found

    DESCRIPTION: With the passing of years Wong has become embittered. Stumbling upon a mysterious place, Wong discovers what happens to lost items, dreams, and feelings of people. Seeing a chance to regain his lost compassion Wong quickly discovers a ma...

  • House of Cool Air

    DESCRIPTION:A mysterious mansion holds a boy captive, making him a different age every day he wakes up. Living a life with three girls and their mother, this boy must face being their whipping post. Forced to endure their terrible punishment, the tim...

  • Indigo Shade, Alizarin Light

    DESCRIPTIONTed Chun, a young man hurting from the loss of a woman he loves, searches out an entrance to the Lost and Found Emporium, the mystic shop where lost things go. What has been lost includes physical items as well as abstract traits and princ...

  • Goin' Down To Anglotown

    In this alternate world, a parody of old stories and movies about Chinatown, three recent college graduates of Chinese and Japanese descent celebrate graduation with a dinner in Anglotown. Pals Ken, Andy, and Garth joke and harass each other at dinne...



  • Island of the Ancestor

    Daniel Eng Zisuey works at a combined resort and religious shrine. An American, he majored in drama and has a great job. He portrays himself on stage as one of his own ancestors reborn, because his benefactor, Eng Sen, used ancient DNA to clone him. ...

  • A Temple of Forgotten Spirits

    A young guy named Jack Hong hitchhikes throughout America following the keilin, a mystical unicorn out of Chinese mythology. The keilin leads him to ten adventures with ghosts and other supernatural figures. These experiences reveal to him not only p...

  • Intricate Mirrors

    The Hugo- and Nebula-nominated story Hong's Bluff leads this new collection of science fiction stories by longtime writer William F. Wu. Some stories are light-hearted and others dramatic, about alternate worlds, cyborgs, clones, nanotech, war-games,...

  • Interlaced Pathways

    This collection by longtime fantasy and science fiction writer William F. Wu includes triple-award finalist “Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium,” which was adapted into a Twilight Zone episode in 1985, and eight more stories of magical places, even...

  • Dr. Bones, The Cosmic Bomber

    THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES!His name is Dr. Bones. His exploits take him across the galaxy in search of exotic species, secret empires and lost worlds where the struggle to protect alien artifacts often leads to peril.All heads turn when the fabulous int...

  • The Ginseng Potion

    • / Fantasy
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    Hua Mulan is a soldier of the khan of the Toba people, in one of the kingdoms into which China is divided in this period. When Mulan's elderly father was called up to serve on campaign, Mulan took his place. One night, Mulan sneaks out of camp in the...

  • On Sun and Moon Mountain

    • / Dark Fantasy
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    DESCRIPTION: In A.D. 641, the captain of Princess Wen Cheng's bodyguard, Lin Wei, devotes every moment of his life to keeping her safe. The princess is traveling in a huge caravan from the Chinese Empire to Tibet, where she will become the bride of t...

  • Scent of Sandalwood

    • / Science Fiction
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    DESCRIPTIONRussell Chen dreams of a beautiful but mysterious woman with natural red hair every time he sleeps. Now, while on vacation with his girlfriend Vina on Kauai, he begins seeing the mystery woman, first in hints and then suddenly but briefly,...

  • The Spirit from the Ninth Heaven

    • / Dark Fantasy
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    EXCERPT:A gentle arm sliding under his neck woke him. He felt his head turned slightly to his left. Long hair tickled his face. When he opened his eyes, he saw the faint outline of the woman's hair and shoulder as she lay next to him. The pendant in ...

  • The Year of the Fiery Horse

    • / Fantasy
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    DESCRIPTION: Ted Chang was simply a middle-aged grouch who couldn't find any good in anything. After all, he lived alone, dated no one, and never did anything to change the situation. He just couldn't. Lonely, and embittered by the holiday cheer in a...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William F. Wu has published 39 books.

William F. Wu does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dr. Bones, The Cosmic Bomber, was published in January 2021.

The first book by William F. Wu, On the Shadow of a Phosphor Screen, was published in January 1979.

Yes. William F. Wu has 1 series.
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