Tad Williams

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Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957, San Jose, California) is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers.

Williams is currently writing the Shadowmarch series, the first volume of which was published in November 2004. The second volume, Shadowplay, was published in March 2007. The third volume currently work-titled Shadowrise is currently being written and a fourth and final volume will conclude the series.

In July 2006, Williams started publishing a new six issue comic mini-series called The Next through DC Comics. A second series for DC Comics called The Factory is currently in planning stages. In addition, Tad wrote Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis for DC Comics starting with issue #50, a project which began in March 2007 and ended with issue #57.

Tad Williams is also currently working on a series of young-adult books co-written with his wife Deborah Beale called Ordinary Farm. The first volume, The Dragons of Ordinary Farm was published in June 2009 and a second book, A Witch at Ordinary Farm is expected in 2010. Three more volumes are planned.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn 1.2 Otherland 1.3 Shadowmarch 1.4 Ordinary Farm series 1.5 The Bobby Dollar Books 1.6 Standalone Novels 1.7 Collections 1.8 Comic Books 2 Further reading 3 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

• Book 1 - The Dragonbone Chair (Hardcover 1988, Paperback 1989)
• Book 2 - Stone of Farewell (Hardcover 1990, Paperback 1991)
• Book 3 - To Green Angel Tower (Hardcover 1993)
  • Book 3 was split into 2 parts for paperback publication (1994):
    • To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 and To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (US Edition)
    • To Green Angel Tower: Siege and To Green Angel Tower: Storm (UK edition)
• Novelette - The Burning Man (Legends) 1998

[edit] Otherland

• Book 1 - City of Golden Shadow (Hardcover 1996, Paperback 1998)
• Book 2 - River of Blue Fire (Hardcover 1998, Paperback 1999)
• Book 3 - Mountain of Black Glass (Hardcover 1999, Paperback 2000)
• Book 4 - Sea of Silver Light (Hardcover 2001, Paperback 2002)
• Novelette - The Happiest Dead Boy in the World (Legends II 2004)

[edit] Shadowmarch

• Book 1 - Shadowmarch (Hardcover 2004, Trade Paperback 2005, Mass-Market Paperback 2006)
• Book 2 - Shadowplay (Hardcover, 2007, Trade Paperback 2008, Mass-Market Paperback 2009)
• Book 3 - Shadowrise (Hardcover, forthcoming in early 2010).
• Book 4 - Shadowheart (Hardcover, forthcoming in mid-2010).

Book 3 got so long that it was not possible to be published in one volume. There will be a fourth book to conclude the Shadowmarch series. Titles for books 3 and 4 have not been finialized. They are both expected to be published in 2010 only a couple of months apart, but no firm pub dates have been set (as of August 2009).

[edit] Ordinary Farm series

Young-adult, written with Deborah Beale (his wife)

• Book 1 - The Dragons of Ordinary Farm (Hardcover, June 2009)
• Book 2 - A Witch at Ordinary Farm (currently in progress, to be published in 2010)
• Book 3 - (forthcoming)
• Book 4 - (forthcoming)
• Book 5 - (forthcoming)

[edit] The Bobby Dollar Books

Noir fantasy thrillers

• Book 1 - Sleeping Late on Judgement Day (forthcoming)
• Book 2 - Happy Hour in Hell (forthcoming)
• Book 3 - Angels Rush In (forthcoming)

[edit] Standalone Novels

• Tailchaser's Song (Hardcover 1985, Paperback 1986)
• Child of an Ancient City (Paperback 1992, written with Nina Kiriki Hoffman)
• Caliban's Hour (Hardcover 1994)
• The War of the Flowers (Hardcover 2003, Paperback 2004)

[edit] Collections

• Rite: Short Work (Hardcover, 2006) Subterranean Press. Published in January 2007.
• Rite: Short Work (Trade Paperback, May 2008) Subterranean Press/Far Territories. Reprint of the limited hc edition without the non-fiction pieces. The reprint only contains the short stories.

[edit] Comic Books

• Tad Williams' Mirrorworld 2 issues. Series was cancelled after two issues because the publisher went out of business.
• The Next 6 issue mini-series published by DC Comics. Published between July and December 2006.
• Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis published by DC Comics. Williams replaced writer Kurt Busiek with issue #50 in March 2007. His run lasted till issue #57 when the comic was cancelled.
• The Helmet of Fate; Ibis the Invincible, 2007 one-shot for DC.

[edit] Further reading

• "Tad Williams: Things Go Away, Things Come Back (interview)". Locus 63 (1): 6, 56–57. July 2009. ISSN 0047-4959. 

[edit] External links

• Tad Williams' US website
• Shadowmarch website
• Interview (several) with Tad Williams at SFFWorld.com
• Tad Williams at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Interview: Tad Williams - The Next by Rajan Khanna, July 2006.
• Book Reviews at FantasyLiterature.com
• Interview with Fantasy Author Tad Williams at FlamesRising.com (April '08)
• Interview with Michael A. Ventrella, October '09

v • d • e Works by Tad Williams (bibliography) Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn The Dragonbone Chair (1988) • Stone of Farewell (1990) • To Green Angel Tower (1993) Otherland City of Golden Shadow (1996) • River of Blue Fire (1998) • Mountain of Black Glass (1999) • Sea of Silver Light (2001) Shadowmarch Shadowmarch (2004) • Shadowplay (2007) • Shadowrise (forthcoming) Book Four (forthcoming) Standalone novels Tailchaser's Song (1985) • Child of an Ancient City (1992) • Caliban's Hour (1994) • The War of the Flowers (2003) Short story collection Rite: Short Work (2007)