Walter Jon Williams

(1953 --)

An American sf writer who lives in New Mexico who has an unusually wide range of styles, including cyberpunk, farce, space opera, alternate history, fantasy and even sea stories and disaster thrillers. His first published sf was Ambassador of Progress in 1984.

In 2006, he founded the Taos Toolbox, a two-week SF writer's workshop.

• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1988 -- Best Novelette Hugo nominee
• 1989 -- SoonerCon 5, Best Novella Hugo nominee
• 1990 -- Archon 14* 1992 -- MileHiCon 35, Hardwired ConFusion, Memphis Fantasy Con '92, Bubonicon 24
• 1994 -- Best Novella Hugo nominee
• 1996 -- Chattacon XXI
• 1998 -- Boskone 35, Tricity 2000, Best Novel Hugo nominee
• 2000 -- Bubonicon 32, Nebula Award for Best Novelette
• 2001 -- Necronomicon 2001, toastmaster at ArmadilloCon 23
• 2004 -- Minicon 39, Conestoga 8, Sidewise Award, Nebula Award for Best Novella, Best Novella Hugo nominee
• 2005 -- Jack Williamson Lectureship
• 2006 -- Conzilla
• 2013 -- EightSquaredCon
• 2017 -- Worldcon 75

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