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Walter Jon Williams

American fiction writer. Walter Jon Williams (born October 28, 1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Previously he wrote nautical adventure fiction under the name Jon Williams, in particular, Privateers and Gentlemen (1981–1984), a series of historical novels set during the age of sail.

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15 October 1953

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Hardwired

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 1986 — 9 editions

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Star Wars: Destiny's Way: The New Jedi Order #14

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 2002 — 7 editions

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Voice Of The Whirlwind

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 1987 — 6 editions

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Worlds that weren't

by Harry Turtledove, S. M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams First published in 2002 — 5 editions

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This is not a game

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 2009 — 4 editions

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Facets

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 1990 — 4 editions

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Aristoi

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 1992 — 4 editions

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The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall)

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 2002 — 4 editions

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Ambassador of progress

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 1984 — 4 editions
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Angel station.

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 1989 — 4 editions
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Deep State

by Walter Jon Williams and Walter Jon Williams First published in 1960 — 3 editions

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Dead Man's Hand: an Anthology of the Weird West

by John Joseph Adams, Joe R. Lansdale, Ben H. Winters, David Farland, Mike Resnick, Seanan McGuire, Charles Yu, Alan Dean Foster, Beth Revis, and 15 others First published in 2014 — 3 editions

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Days of Atonement

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 1991 — 3 editions
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The Sundering

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 2003 — 3 editions

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Knight Moves

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 1985 — 3 editions

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The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s

by Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, James Tiptree, Jr., Barry N. Malzberg, Suzy McKee Charnas, Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, and 3 others First published in 1993 — 2 editions
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Dread Empire's Fall : The Praxis

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 2003 — 2 editions

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The sundering

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 2004 — 2 editions

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Conventions of War

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 2006 — 2 editions

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Frankensteins and Foreign Devils

by Walter Jon Williams First published in 1998 — 2 editions
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American fiction writer

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15 October 1953

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OLID: OL19039A
BookBrainz: 290c2c08-df5f-4a54-8baf-ec2b066dde44
GoodReads: 48960
ISNI: 0000000116827051
Library of Congress Names: n86064319
LibraryThing: williamswalterjon
MusicBrainz: 605cdb2b-f304-4c0b-8354-c911389f68e6
VIAF: 88044540
Wikidata: Q714485
Inventaire.io: wd:Q714485

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July 31, 2025	Edited by WikidataBot	[sync_author_identifiers_with_wikidata] add wikidata remote identifiers
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Walter Jon Williams