NovelsĪ comedy of manners sci-fi series about the aristocratic burglar Drake Maijstral. In 2006, Williams founded the Taos Toolbox, a two-week writer's workshop for fantasy and science fiction writers. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass, becoming a contributor to their Wild Cards series), and has written both fiction and rulebooks for the games Privateers and Gentlemen from Fantasy Games Unlimited and Cyberpunk from R. Williams played roleplaying games (in a group with other sf authors including George R. He currently lives in Valencia County, south of Albuquerque in New Mexico. Williams was born in Duluth, Minnesota and graduated from the University of New Mexico, where he received his BA degree in 1975. He has also contributed to some of the Wild Cards cooperative novels. However, he has explored a number of different styles and genres, including farce (e.g., the Majistral series), postcyberpunk space opera ( Aristoi), military science fiction ( Dread Empire's Fall series), alternative history ( Wall, Stone, Craft), science fantasy/arcanepunk ( Metropolitan and City on Fire), disaster thriller ( The Rift), a Star Wars novel ( The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way) and historical adventure ( Privateers and Gentlemen series), and police procedural ( Days of Atonement), usually in a science fiction context. Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired (also an homage to Roger Zelazny's novel Damnation Alley), Voice of the Whirlwind and Angel Station. Talsorian Games, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Williams. A Cyberpunk RPG sourcebook called Hardwired (1989) was licensed by R. As Jon Williams, he designed the game Heart of Oak (1982) and Privateers and Gentlemen (1983) for Fantasy Games Unlimited.
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