The fifth of my Privateers & Gentlemen series is now available as an audio book. read by the estimable Bronson Pinchot. It may be available only on Audible for the next 90 days or so, but that rule does not seem universally enforced. The Tern Schooner is appearing as if it’s the final book in […]

Tesla’s Egg. The first course at Next restaurant, with a menu inspired by the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Nikola Tesla lit the entire fair with electricity, the first time electricity had been used on such a scale. Among the wonders on display was a copper egg suspended above a magnetic field. Here we find a […]

In a couple days I’ll be flying to Chicago for Chicon 8, this year’s world science fiction convention. Here are my program items: Autographing – Walter Jon Williams, Thursday, 1 September 2022, 14:30 CDT, Autographing Table Talk – Walter Jon Williams, Thursday, 1 September 2022, 17:30 CDT, Crystal FoyerTitle (This is what is usually called […]

So here’s the new addition to my wardrobe, a plastic brace that straps around my leg. This is intended to help my achilles tendon heal. I tore the tendon back in January, and what with one thing and another (including my black belt test) it never healed, and I kept re-injuring it. This is intended […]