Williams, Walter Jon

Destiny's way by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
15 editions published between 2002 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 1,411 libraries worldwide
Following the fall of Coruscant to the Yuuzhan Vong, the New Republic is torn apart by internal strife as a dangerous new faction opposed to the ways of the Force unveils a weapon that could destroy their enemies and make them vulnerable to the dark side.

This is not a game by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
9 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 910 libraries worldwide
College friends united by their love of online games make their passion a successful business, until a currency crash and government coup strand one of them in a foreign country and their alternate reality games suddenly blur the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds, threatening real fortunes and real lives.

Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
12 editions published between 1992 and 1997 in 4 languages and held by 701 libraries worldwide
Successful in its efforts to create a glittering interstellar empire, founded on the use of an ultra-advanced computer and bioengineering technology, humankind becomes the prey of its own creation, the Aristoi

The rift by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
8 editions published between 1999 and 2002 in English and held by 659 libraries worldwide
An earthquake hits Mississippi, destroying St. Louis. The novel follows various protagonists as they cope with the disaster, among them a black engineer, a racist sheriff and a preacher who predicted it.

Voice of the whirlwind by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
19 editions published between 1987 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 655 libraries worldwide
"Etienne Steward is a clone, also known as a beta. When he first awakes, his memories are fifteen years old, because the original Steward, the alpha, never bothered to have a brain-scan update. In those fifteen years, the entire world has changed. An alien race known as The Powers has established relations with humanity. The Orbital Policorp which held his allegiance has collapsed. He fought and survived the off-world Artifacts War, but dozens of his friends did not. Both his first and second wives have divorced him. More importantly, someone has murdered him, causing the activation of the beta back-up. Now Steward has to figure out who wanted him dead, if he doesn't want to die again."--Wikipedia.

Implied spaces by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
5 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in English and French and held by 585 libraries worldwide
Aristide is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, and must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.

Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
9 editions published between 1995 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 535 libraries worldwide
The setting is an Earth where the monetary standard is "plasm," an energy which can be transmitted by wireless. It can help one to be more clever, it can heal, it can move objects. The novel deals with an attempt to acquire lots of this energy to stage a revolution.

City on fire by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
4 editions published between 1997 and 2005 in English and French and held by 511 libraries worldwide
In the fantasy City of Caraqui, civil war breaks out for possession of the plasm, as the city's life force is called. By the author of Metropolitan.

Days of atonement by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
6 editions published between 1991 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 476 libraries worldwide
Atocha, N.M. is having trouble coping with the 21st century and the death of a man who died twenty years ago.

Angel station by Walter Jon Williams ( Book )
7 editions published between 1989 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 415 libraries worldwide
Ubu and Maria are forced to flee to the farthest reaches of space where they discover a secret and risk everything on one last gamble to win the universe or be destroyed.