The first novel to attract serious public attention was Hardwired, described by Roger Zelazny as “a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe-light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars.” (And let me just say that when you get a blurb like that, you point to it whenever possible.) I view science fiction as a kind of infinite playground in which I can move from one set of equipment to the next, from the slides to the monkey bars to the swings- which is a way of saying that I don’t just write the same sort of book over and over. (These are now available as ebooks after being out of print for decades.) After the market for historicals died, I began a new career as a science fiction writer. I began my career by writing historical fiction, the sea-adventure series Privateers & Gentlemen. I’ve won awards, I’ve appeared on the bestseller lists of the Times and the New York Times, and I’m a world traveler, scuba diver, and a black belt in Kenpo Karate. I’m Walter Jon Williams, and I’m the author of something like forty volumes of fiction, in addition to works in film, television, comics, and the gaming field.
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