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epub | 7.8 MB | English | Isbn: 9781645240037 | Author: Walter Jon Williams | Year: 2021
About ebook : The Best of Walter Jon Williams
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. His work encompasses cyberpunk ( Hardwired ), military SF ( The Dread Empire's Fall series), humor ( The Crown Jewels ), even disaster fiction ( The Rift ). 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.
With one exception, The Best of Walter Jon Williams reflects its author's affection for-and mastery of-the novella form. That exception is "The Millennium Party," a brief, brilliant account of a virtual anniversary celebration unlike any you have ever imagined. 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. Finally, the magisterial "Wall, Stone, Craft" offers a brilliantly realized alternate take on a young Mary Godwin, future creator of Frankenstein, and her relationships with the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, culminating in the creation of a monster who would "stalk through the hearts of all the world."
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. It's the rare sort of book that the reader can return to again and again, finding new and unexpected pleasures every time out.
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Other Fantasy Fiction Categories, Short Story Anthologies, Other Science Fiction Categories, Fantasy Anthologies, Science Fiction Anthologies
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