Ears, Pointy, Two

September 14, 2022

I’ve watched three episodes (all there is, so far) of Amazon’s billion-dollar Tolkien fanfic, Rings of Power, and I find my reactions mixed. Public reaction so far has featured complaints that the series isn’t faithful enough to the source, but that complaint doesn’t have any weight with me. The filmmakers didn’t have the rights to […]

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Signed Books

September 11, 2022

Apropos the Privateers & Gentlemen books, a whole box of the original paperbacks has been discovered! Our friend Nadine is making them available here. All are signed, and all but one are unread and in good condition. You can buy them singly or buy the whole set of five. These have been out of print […]

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Five by Five

September 10, 2022

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 […]

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Electronic Vacation

September 7, 2022

I returned home from Worldcon to find that my neighborhood had been hit by an electronic blackout. Without AC, our house was unlivable and we spent the evening with Terry and Jim, whose hospitality was much appreciated.By the time we got home, the electricity was on and the house was cool, but wifi and our […]

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Amuse-Bouche

September 5, 2022

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 […]

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Hey Y’all!

September 4, 2022

Guess what town I’m in!

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Chicon Schedule

August 28, 2022

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 […]

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To the New City

August 23, 2022

Here’s the cover of the City on Fire re-issue, again by Hugo-winning artist Elizabeth Leggett. (And I just this minute noticed a problem with it. Anyone else see it?) There have been a number of my books that were difficult to illustrate. I was never satisfied with the covers on the original hardbacks or on […]

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Fashion Statement

August 23, 2022

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 […]

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Born in Fire

August 22, 2022

I’m re-releasing the ebook of Metropolitan with new cover art by Hugo-winning artist Elizabeth Leggett. I think this should attract a bit of attention. UPDATE: There were problems getting this up on Smashwords, but apparently they are resolved.

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