The Best of Walter Jon Williams, Walter Jon Williams
The Best of Walter Jon Williams, Walter Jon Williams
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The Best of Walter Jon Williams

Author: Walter Jon Williams

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 22 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/24/2021


Synopsis

With the publication of his debut novel, The Privateer, in 1981, Walter Jon Williams began one of the most varied and prolific careers in contemporary popular fiction. But much of Williams's best work takes place in the shorter forms, as this generous volume, filled to overflowing with award-winning and award-nominated stories, clearly proves.

The Best of Walter Jon Williams reflects its author's affection for—and mastery of—the novella form. Elsewhere in the collection, Williams offers us one brilliantly sustained creation after another. The Nebula Award-winning "Daddy's World" takes us into a young boy's private universe, a world of seeming miracles that conceals a tragic secret. "Dinosaurs" is the far future account of the incredibly destructive relationship between the star-faring human race and the less evolved inhabitants of the planet Shar.

"Diamonds from Tequila" is a lovingly crafted example of SF Noir in which a former child actor attempts a comeback that proves unexpectedly dangerous. "Surfacing" is a tale of alienation featuring a research scientist more at home with the foreign and unfamiliar than with the members of his own species.

These stories, together with half a dozen equally substantial tales, are the clear product of a master craftsman with a seemingly limitless imagination. The Best of Walter Jon Williams is the capstone of a truly remarkable career.

About Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams is the author of thirty volumes of fiction, in addition to works in film, television, comics, and the gaming field. Williams has appeared on the bestseller lists of the Times and the New York Times. He is a world traveler, scuba diver, and a black belt in Kenpo Karate. He has twice been awarded the Nebula Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig

This is an excellent collection of eleven novellas (and one very short story) that both spans Williams' writing career and showcases his wide range of style and subject very well. The first one, Daddy's World, is a Nebula Award winner (many, if not most, of the stories in the book were Nebula or Hug......more

Goodreads review by Ernest

Walter Jon Williams is one of speculative fiction's major talents, but he may not have the name recognition that he deserves. Hopefully this collection, with a foreword by Daniel Abraham, the more writerly part of James S. A. Corey, will help set that straight. Williams's range is astounding. Readin......more

Goodreads review by Kat

Will review at FantasyLiterature.com.......more

Goodreads review by Ralph

The Best of Walter Jon Williams- This is a pretty good collection of stories, mostly novellas, from Walter Jon Williams. It starts of with the nebula-winning story "Daddy's World", which for its time was ground-breaking and surreal, and still holds on to its magic. My personal favorite probably is "......more