Reading Walter Jon Williams
Aug. 23rd, 2003 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkI've been reading books by our Minicon 39 Writer GOH, and I'm really impressed! So far I've read Days of Atonement and Angel Station. The former is a gritty police procedural with an s.f. twist; the latter is hard-core far-future science fiction. Both are excellent, although Angel Station is more to my taste. I am impressed with the author's range - on the surface is hard to imagine two more different books, but what they have in common is exceptionally well-developed backgrounds and characters (even the minor ones). After reading Days of Atonement I was convinced that the author had grown up in a small town in northern New Mexico. But then, the background details in Angel Station were equally convincing, and I'm pretty sure he didn't grow up in space. Maybe he's just got a genius for the convincing detail.
Richard read Aristoi, and it sounds like yet another wildly different universe, with a background even more interesting than the two I read: something about skillful management of multiple personalities as a kind of super-power. And nanotech. Hmmm, that suggests some intriguing programming items...
What other books has he written, and how can we build programming items around them?
Richard read Aristoi, and it sounds like yet another wildly different universe, with a background even more interesting than the two I read: something about skillful management of multiple personalities as a kind of super-power. And nanotech. Hmmm, that suggests some intriguing programming items...
What other books has he written, and how can we build programming items around them?
