General Information
What is a Special Friend? Special Friends are those authors who annually or frequently attend the Jack Williamson Lectureship. These authors participate in the afternoon panels either as panelists or as participants from the audience.
How is this page organized? The authors are organized by last name with the boxes organized in a single column. The final box in the left-hand column, contains several authors with a smaller number of books available in Special Collections.
Steven Gould - Stand Alone Books
Blind Waves
Call Number: PS3557.O8947 B456 2001
Greenwar
Call Number: PS3557.O8947 G74 1997
Helm
Call Number: PS3557.O8947 H455 1998
Wildside
Call Number: PS3557.O8947 W553 1996
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010
Call Number: PS648.S3 S4229 2010
Title: A story, with beans
Steven Gould - Series
Jumper by Call Number: PS3557.O8947 J946 2008
Reflex by Call Number: PS3557.O8947 R45 2004
Impulse by Call Number: PS3557.O8947 I47 2013
Exo by Call Number: PS3557.O8947 E96 2014
7th Sigma by Call Number: PS3557.O8947 S484 2011
Phillipa Bornikova- Linnet Ellery series
This Case Is Gonna Kill Me by Call Number: PS3569.N53 L545 v.1
Box Office Poison by Call Number: PS3569.N53 L545 v.2
Publish and Perish by Call Number: PS3569.N53 L545 v.3
Melinda Snodgrass - Wild Cards Series
One-Eyed Jacks
Call Number: PS648.S3 W58255 v.8
Dealer's Choice
Call Number: PS648.S3 W58255 v.11
Card Sharks
Call Number: PS648.S3 W58255 v.13
Melinda Snodgrass - Series
Circuit by Call Number: PS3569.N53 C57 1986
The Tears of the Singers by Call Number: PS3568.O35 S73 no.19ISBN: 0671696548Publication Date: 1989-08-15Composer Guy Maslin joins the crew of the Enterprise to investigate the strange continuous song of the inhabitants of Taygeta, source of a dangerous spacewarp, and they discover that the destruction of the Singers is linked to the growing discontinuity.
Melinda Snodgrass - Stand Alone Books
Dream Ship
Call Number: PS3569.N53 S258 1988
Queen's Gambit Declined
Call Number: PS3569.N53 Q845 1989
Runespear
Call Number: PS3563.I371568 R954 1987
Santa Fe
Call Number: PS3563.I371568 R954 1987
Melinda Snodgrass - Stories in Anthologies
Notable Authors
The Deadliest Echo by Call Number: PS3608.O48266 D323 2014
Holding the Ashes, Season One (a White Event Series) by Call Number: PS3608.O48266 H653 2018
Shrouded Loyalties by Call Number: PS3608.O48266 S576 2019
Love in Darkness by Call Number: PS3620.I568 L694 2013
- Astropilots by Call Number: PS3563.I965 A786 1987
Burning the Ice by Call Number: PS3563.I965 B876 2002
Glass Houses by Call Number: PS3563.I965 G428 1992
- Pawn to infinity by Call Number: PS648.S3 P3866 1982
Implanted by Call Number: PS3620.E434 I565 2018
The Shining Cities: an Anthology of Pagan Science Fiction by Call Number: PS648.S3 S557 2012Chicken feet / by Lauren C. Teffeau
Heroic Fantasy Short Stories by Call Number: PS648.F3 H478 2017Those Who Wear Their White Hair Proudly by Lauren C. Teffeau
Darynda Jones - Series
Betwixt by Call Number: PS3610.O6236 B479 v.1
Death and the Girl Next Door by Call Number: PS3610.O6236 D265 v.1
Death, Doom, and Detention by Call Number: PS3610.O6236 D265 v.2
Death and the Girl He Loves by Call Number: PS3610.O6236 D265 v.3
A Bad Day for Sunshine by Call Number: PS3610.O6236 S867 v.1
Darynda Jones - Charley Davidson Series
First Grave on the Right
PS3610.O6236 F578 2011
Second Grave on the Left
PS3610.O6236 F578 2011
Third Grave Dead Ahead
PS3610.O6236 F578 2012
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
PS3610.O6236 F578 2012
Fifth Grave Past the Light
PS3610.O6236 F578 2013
Sixth Grave on the Edge
PS3610.O6236 F578 2014
Seventh Grave and No Body
PS3610.O6236 F578 2014
Eighth Grave after Dark
PS3610.O6236 F578 2015
The Dirt on Ninth Grave
PS3610.O6236 F578 2016
The Curse of Tenth Grave
PS3610.O6236 F578 20016
Eleventh Grave in Moonlight
PS3610.O6236 F578 2017
The Trouble with Twelfth Grave
PS3610.O6236 F578 2017
Summoned to Thirteenth Grave
PS3610.O6236 S865 2019
Ian Tregillis - Various Writings
Something More Than Night by Call Number: PS3620.R4446 S654 2013- Still life (A sexagesimal fairy tale) by Call Number: PS3620.R4446 S754
Human for a Day by Call Number: PS648.F3 H862 2011Title: The mainspring of his heart, the shackles of his soul
Ian Tregillis - Wild Cards Series
Ian Tregillis - Series
The Mechanical by Call Number: PS3620.R4446 A534 v.1
The Rising by Call Number: PS3620.R4446 A534 v.2
The Liberation by Call Number: PS3620.R4446 A534 v.3
The Coldest War by Call Number: PS3620.R4446 N434 2012
Necessary Evil by Call Number: PS3620.R4446 N434 2013
Bitter Seeds by Call Number: PS3620.R4446 B587 2010
Walter Jon Williams - Stand Alone Books
Ambassador of Progress
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 A47 1984
Knight Moves
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 K65 1985
Implied Spaces
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 I475 2008
Angel Station
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 A53 1989
Elegy for Angels and Dogs and the Graveyard Heart
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 E54 1990
Days of Atonement
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 D38 1991
The Rift
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 R548 1999
Aristoi
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 A89 1992
Boolean gate
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 B645 2012
Wall, stone, craft
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 W255 1993
Ten Points for Style
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 T4676 1995
Walter Jon Williams - Story Collections
- Facets by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 F334 1991
Frankensteins and Foreign Devils by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 F726 1998
The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 G743 2010
Walter Jon Williams - Series
This Is Not a Game by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 T458 2008
Deep State by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 D437 2011
The Fourth Wall by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 F687 2012
The Crown Jewels by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 C66 1987- Ten Points for Style by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 H69 1988
Rock of Ages by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 R624 1995
The Praxis by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 D743 bk.1
The Sundering by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 D743 bk.2
Conventions of War by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 D743 bk.3
Impersonations by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 I473 2016
The Accidental War by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 D743 bk.4
Hardwired by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 H37 1987- Voice of the Whirlwind by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 V65 1988
Solip by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 S655 1989
Metropolitan by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 M48 1996
Star Wars - The New Jedi Order by Call Number: PS3562.U234 S741 no.15
Quillifer by Call Number: PS3573.I456213 Q556 v.1
Quillifer the Knight by
"Williams knows exactly what to do with Quillifer, and it's hugely entertaining." --Locus "Walter Jon Williams is always fun, but this may be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written." --George R. R. Martin "Chock full of derring-do, blood and thunder, swashbuckling, and other good stuff evocative of Rafael Sabatini, Sir Walter Scott, and the penny-bloods." --Paul Di Filippo, author of The Big Get-Even Quillifer--now a member of the nobility--finds himself further immersed in court politics as the outcast princess Floria is suddenly in a position of power with a rebellion stoked by a certain brilliant tactician, in this thrilling sequel to Quillifer. Rogue. Joker. Lover. Reluctant conspirator. The ambitious young Quillifer was been knighted for services to the crown, but was then banished from court by a queen who finds him obnoxious. Now, after a two-year voyage to improve his fortunes, Quillifer returns to court and is plunged immediately into a maelstrom of intrigue that triggers duels, plots, amours, and rollicking adventure. Bounding back and forth from the high councils of state to the warm bed of his mistress, Quillifer must exert every ounce of seductive charm and low cunning in order to survive. Queen Berlauda's foreign husband brings war in his wake, along with a clutch of officials who enforce the royal will with violence, torture, and judicial murder. A dragon menaces the realm, and political conspiracy threatens the life of Quillifer's young patroness, Princess Floria. It's the traditional job of a knight to fight dragons and rescue princesses, but Quillifer is hardly a traditional knight, and he brings to the job an array of unorthodox skills that dazzles his swarm of rivals, seduces their wives, and threatens the realm. But there's a greater menace to Quillifer than deadly political intrigue, for once again he finds himself hunted by the cruel, beautiful, and vengeful goddess Orlanda.
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 Q556 v.2ISBN: 9781481490016
Lord Quillifer by
"For all of you who need some great fantasy to read while you're waiting for The Winds of Winter...try Quillifer, by Walter Jon Williams. WJW is always fun, but this might be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written." --George R. R. Martin, author of the Song of Ice and Fire series "Chock full of derring-do, blood and thunder, swashbuckling, and other good stuff." --Paul di Filippo, Locus "You have risen as far as you can, and from this point, you may only fall. The matter is inevitable, and I need not intervene." Quillifer's archenemy, the beautiful and vengeful goddess Orlanda, predicts his inescapable fall from power, and Quillifer has to admit that she may be right. Quillifer has risen high at court. The butcher's son is now a lord, and now is the confidential agent of the state, the caretaker of the kingdom's secrets, and the secret lover of the young and brilliant Queen Floria. He finds himself surrounded by perils. The nobles are at odds with one another, but united in despising Quillifer. Someone has brought deadly poison into court, and Quillifer fears the Queen may be the intended victim. Another assassination plot is aimed at Quillifer himself, and an enemy nation has landed troops intending to topple Floria by force. Quillifer must solve every mystery, meet every danger, and discover every secret in order to guard himself and his love, Floria, from the dangers that beset them. Lord Quillifer marks the anticipated return of Walter Jon Williams, a New York Times bestselling author and multiple award-winning fantasy author.
Call Number: PS3573.I456213 Q556 v.3
Wild Cards II - Aces High by Call Number: PS648.S3 W58255 v.2bTitles: Unto the sixth generation: prologue
Unto the sixth generation: part two
Unto the sixth generation: epilogue
Mr. Koyama's comet
Walter Jon Williams - Stories in Anthologies
Anthologies
The Change
Novels of the Change have depicted a vivid, utterly persuasive, and absorbingly unpredictable postapocalyptic wasteland in which all modern technology has been left in ashes, forcing humankind to rebuild an unknowable new world in the wake of unimaginable--and deliberate--chaos. Contributors to The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth Include: S. M. Stirling, A. M. Dellamonica, Lauren C. Teffeau, M. T. Reiten, John Jos. Miller, Victor Milan, Terry D. England, John Birmingham, Walter Jon Williams, John Barnes, Harry Turtledove, Jane Lindskold, Jody Lynn Nye, Emily Mah Tippetts, and Diana Paxson.
Arkady Martine - Works
A Memory Called Empire
Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion--all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret--one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life--or rescue it from annihilation. A fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure. "The most thrilling ride ever. This book has everything I love."--Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky And coming soon, the brilliant sequel, A Desolation Called Peace!
A Desolation Called Peace
WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire. An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass--still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire--face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan's destruction--and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion. Or it might create something far stranger . . .
The Mythic Dream
An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers. Madeleine L'Engle once said, "When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe." The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations. Featuring award-winning and critically acclaimed writers such as Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, Indrapramit Das, Carlos Hernandez, Sarah Gailey, Ann Leckie, John Chu, Urusla Vernon, Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen Graham Jones, Arkady Martine, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, and more, The Mythic Dream is sure to become a new classic.